Alexandra and the Pickle My friend Alexandra was on Gothamist the other day holding this huge pickle. Her archivist colleagues are all so proud. Finally, an Archivist Poster Girl!

ViewScore aggregates gadget reviews from all over the web. If you are looking for a new digital camera or some other geeky device, you can view a well-designed sortable list of the best-reviewed gadgets, along with price and product details. ViewScore is what Froogle wants to be, but is too…

I’ve started a library at work. My cataloging system is the whiteboard over my desk. My patrons are co-workers and student employees whom I bully into taking books. My material? Comics. I’m on a mission from Groo. When I was a young Librarian Avenger, I spent many happy years working…

ARCIMBOLDO, Giuseppe (b. ca. 1530, Milano, d. 1593, Milano) The Librarian c. 1566 Oil on canvas, 97 x 71 cm Skoklosters Slott, BÃ¥lsta (Stockholm) . . . .

Today I animated a vector image of a woman singing for an educational flash animation illustrating the difference between the larynx (humans) and the syrinx (birds). What did you do at work today? In my travels, I discovered that WikiCommons has a nice-if-random collection of GNU public licenced images, which…

It’s 4 am and I’ve got some sort of low-grade headcold. I can’t sleep. The only advantage to being awake in my house at 4am is the cat is so! happy! to see me! He’s overcome his usual aloofness and has wrapped himself around my neck. We’re back from Austin,…

My ex-professor and information architecture guru Peter Morville is in town promoting his new O’Reilly book, Ambient Findability, which I’m going to buy and review, whether you like it or not. For all you digital librarians out there, he had a slide showing some attractive ladies that was meant to…

Hi guys – I’m on day four of a head cold. Meaning, my head feels like it was stuck on by something tacky and impermanent – like that stuff that holds posters up in dorm rooms. Anyway, I’m going to let others blog for me today instead of subjecting you…