The Liminal Librarian

I'm sure someone at ALA will clean this up soon, so hurry if you'd like to see what can happen when an unmonitored wiki meets a disgruntled poster.

Labels: ala, recruitment, wikis

As part of reorganizing and redesigning LISjobs.com, I'll be adding more info on the LIS career process as a whole, including choosing a library school. I'd like to add some kind of scholarship database, because the information on LIS scholarships is currently so fragmented and hard to find. Logistically, though, I'm not sure how well this would work as a database (tracking down this info and keeping it current), so am thinking that perhaps a wiki where people could add and update scholarship info might be in order, and would also serve well for other content.

Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions for the semi-wikilliterate?

Labels: databases, lis, lisjobs, scholarships, wikis

Penguin is experimenting with a web-based, collaborative, wiki novel called -- what else -- A Million Penguins. "'This is an experiment. It may end up like reading a bowl of alphabet spaghetti,' Jeremy Ettinghausen, head of digital publishing at Penguin UK said, adding there were no plans as yet to publish the completed work."

Talk about a test of the wisdom of crowds! Some of the alternative versions are pretty amusing... enjoy, even if you're not inspired to contribute.

(Why am I blogging so much today? Well, being home with a cold and a kid with pinkeye, of course!)

Labels: authorship, penguins, publishing, wikis