Rambling Librarian:: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian

Drafting a "Web 2.0 + Young Adult services primer for librarians"

On a whim, I posted this status update at my Facebook account yesterday:In case you can't see the image, my status said: "Ivan is writing a Web 2.0 + Young Adult services primer for...

Part 2 - Drafting a "Web 2.0 + Young Adult services primer for librarians"

[From previous post]After thinking about it, I decided to start a wiki for the draft.It's at web20-libraryservices-ya.wikispaces.comI figured it would be OK for me to make the draft public, since a...

Part 3 - Drafting a "Web 2.0 + Young Adult services primer for librarians"

[From Part 2]Sent the final draft to Ivanka yesterday night. Just checked my email this evening and she came back with some corrections. I made the changes on my master document and emailed it...

"Enough"

On the last day of 2008, my friend (this guy) told me this story that he'd read from this book:At a party hosted by a successful hedge fund manager, (the late) author Kurt Vonnegut remarked to fellow...

"Singapore - Crossroads of the East 1938"

I enjoyed this video. A "tour of the British colony of Singapore in 1938" video footage in YouTube:The narrator sounds "uppity" and stereotypically stiff-upper-lip British. He pronounced "Malay" as...

First song for 2009: Stroke Of Midnight

First song for the year, from my band buddy and I.It's pretty obvious both of us are Joe Satriani fans.Enjoy! First conceived by Adrian Loo. Arrangement by Ivan Chew.Adrian Loo: Drums and...

NLB Announces Library Policy Changes To Encourage Responsible Library Usage and Prompt Return of Bo

This was announced today. From the NLB press release page (emphasis are mine):Changes to Library PolicyFrom 1 April 2009, the following policy changes will be implemented:Disruption of Borrowing...

Reading, Libraries and Librarians

Spotted these recent posts in LisNews.org:Librarians in the Scottish community of Edinburgh are being re-styled from "librarians" to "audience development officers".A link to an opinion piece,...

?When they don?t have really good results on YouTube, then I use Google?

This post's title came from words uttered by nine year-old Tyler from California, USA.Reading this New York Times article, I wonder how many Singaporean kids are like Tyler. Perhaps we'll be...

Remixed (again): Twilight 2008

Nice of Mongobear to drop me an email, letting me know that he used this sample (from Twilight 2008) in his performance poetry piece.Mongo intends to feature that piece at the IndieFeed Performance...