Tuesday, August 27, 2002

FY2002 LSTA grant applications available from Illinois State Library: Jean Wilkins, Director of the Illinois State Library, has announced that the FY2003 LSTA grant applications and information are now posted on the Illinois State Library Web site. 3:54:26 PM

Digital Promise: Wired has an article entitled "Ed-Tech Crusaders Seek D.C. Bucks" by Katie Dean.  The article describes the effort to create the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust.  The goals of the trust include creating virtual models for educational purposes and digitizing the content in libraries, museums, and universities.  The bills that would create the trust fund are Senate bill S2603 and House bill HR4641. The initative has already received funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Century Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. 3:52:06 PM

Library Weblogs: '"The first public library weblog in the UK."' [Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen] For an international index to library weblogs, see "Library Weblogs." 3:19:24 PM

Another Seattle update: '"Seattle librarians got a jump on their competitors in the city's brewing budget battles"....  (from The Seattle Times)' [Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen] Seattle just keeps getting more interesting.   When the financial situation improves  nationwide, it might prove useful to compare how different cities dealt with the cuts, etc. 2:03:51 PM

ALSC/BWI Summer Reading Grant, administered by the Association for Library Services Division of ALA, is now accepting applications.  According to the committe chair, Meaghan Battle, the grant encourages:  "outstanding summer reading programs by providing financial assistance, while recognizing ALSC members for outstanding program development. The applicant must plan and present an outline for a theme-based summer reading program in a public library. The program must be open to all children (birth-14 years). The committee also encourages innovative proposals involving children with physical or mental disabilities. The $3,000 grant, made possible by Book Wholesalers, Inc., is to be used to support the program. Individual libraries within a larger system are welcome to apply. Applications are available in .pdf format from www.ala.org/alsc/bwi03.pdf or by calling Meredith Parets at ALSC, 800/545-2433, x2166. Applications are due by December 3, 2002 to: Meaghan Battle, Farmington Community Library, 32737 W. Twelve Mile Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334" 1:53:03 PM

An update from Seattle: Library Closed, Patrons Angry [LISNews.com] This article is an update on the Seattle Public Library closing due to Seattle's financial crisis.  12:49:08 PM

BlogMD "BlogMD is a new initiative, involving the author of this blog and loads of interesting developers including Cameron Marlow of Blogdex, to improve the interoperability between weblog software and increase the amount of metadata available on weblogs by defining some standard formats and APIs to transfer it around." [Via Weblog Interop] [Sylvain Carle: Content Management] This will help to catalog blog content.  Definitely an Idea/Standard to watch! 11:51:46 AM

PDAs in the classroom: Wired has this article on a project called PocketClassroom, from Wake Forest University.  Software developers there have written software that turns Compaq iPaqs into a mobile wireless web server.  11:43:46 AM

Google Google has been a hot topic of late.  Here's the orignial paper at Stanford on Google and its algorithms.  Google has a new beta version of a news search engine that's available for use. 10:28:30 AM

Law Librarians as Newscasters: Law.com has an article entitled "Breaking News: Law Librarians as Newcasters" by  Susannah Crego on its site.  The article explains how newsletters, blogs, and current event summaries by law librarians can provide just in time information to law practioners and others in the firm. Thanks again, Jenny.   9:58:03 AM

A sample corporate policy for blogging: With the continued trend of using blogging as a knowledge management tool, here's a sample corporate policy on blogging from Ray Ozzie's Weblog.  Thanks to Jenny Levine for the link. 9:50:56 AM

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