Cites on a Plane 2: This Time It's for Keeps

In plenty of time for ALA Annual--but also for those of you not going to DC in a few weeks, Cites on a Plane 2: This Time It's for Keeps is now available for downloading.

This 44-page issue is Cites & Insights 7:7, Mid-June 2007. (The seventh issue of the seventh volume: A lucky issue?)

Like COAP, COAP2 is much larger than a regular issue and is largely composed of old material.

Unlike COAP, COAP2:

• Includes a fair amount of new material, something like 35-40% of the issue.


• Will stick around permanently (or as permanently as C&I itself)


• Has a single theme!

Indeed, it's a "conference issue"--all about Conferences & Speaking.

After a brief introduction, the issue includes four sections:

• Coping with Conferences


• State Conferences and Others


• The Speaking Life


• Conference-Speaker Arrangements

There is an HTML version available from the home page--but please do not print out the HTML version in full, as it will use a lot more paper (58 pages as compared to 44 pages for the PDF, in an informal FireFox print-preview test).

Post-ALA, Post-OCLC: What's next?

I apologize for using this blog for something other than announcing a new Cites & Insights (yes, there will be a special pre-Annual issue), but, well...

I'd appreciate it if you'd go read this post at Walt at Random.

I won't say the future of C&I; is in jeopardy (I don't think it is), but my future is certainly in a state of flux.

Thanks. Next post here should be for COAP2: This Time It's for Keeps. More later.

C&I; Reminder: Please change any hyperlinks

If you have any posts or other items that link to Cites & Insights at its old address, please change them to point to http://citesandinsights.info/ (and whatever the filenames were before).

None of the issues remain at the old site, which will disappear in another month.

Cites & Insights 7:6 available

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large v.7 issue 6 (June 2007) is now available for downloading.

The 26-page issue (PDF as usual, but HTML separates for each essay are available from the home page)
includes:

• Bibs & Blather - On Being Wrong (and more)


• Making it Work - library resources, innovation, futures and more


• Trends & Quick Takes - three essays and six quicker takes


• Net Media Perspective: Civility and Codes: A Blogging Morality Play

Given how much I've heard OpenOffice 2 touted as a much better way to produce good HTML than nasty ol' Microsoft Word, I've included an experiment on the home page:

The hyperlinks are, as usual, to Word 2000 "filtered HTML" files. But there's another set of hyperlinks below, to OpenOffice 2 HTML files generated from the same Word file.

It's not really a fair comparison--after all, Word 2000 is two generations and five years out of date, where OpenOffice 2 is the absolutely newest version as of mid-April--but I'd be interested in the comments of HTML gurus (send 'em to waltcrawford@gmail.com) There will probably be a Walt at Random post later...

Cites & Insights 7:5 available

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 7:5 (May 2007) is now available for downloading.

The 26-page issue is PDF as usual, but you can get HTML separates of most essays from the home page.

NOTE: If you have any websites with links to the old C&I; site, please change them. That site will disappear fairly soon.

This issue includes:

• Bibs & Blather - On being cited, introducing a new section, and a belated followup from Richard Entlich (with apology)


• Old Media/New Media - Updates on the health of four old media


• Offtopic Perspective: 50-Movie Classic Musicals, Part 1 - no West Side Story, but Reet, Petite and Gone is hot stuff.


• Interesting & Peculiar Products - four segments plus 15 roundups in seven categories in the new "Editors Choices and Best Buys" segment (replacing "PC Progress")


• Making it Work - A new section, continuing the conversations about libraries, social software in libraries, balance... (and incorporating The Library Stuff)


• Net Media: The High-Def Disc Saga Continues - still not time for most libraries to start buying Blu-ray or HD DVD, but lots of news.


• My Back Pages - six grumpy little essays.

And don't forget to visit Cites & Insights Books to buy Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change.

Cites & Insights 7:4 available

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large volume 7, issue 4 (April 2007) is now available for downloading.

This 24-page issue (PDF as usual, but the essays are available as HTML separates) features the first Cites & Insights book: Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change.

Essays include:

Announcing Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change - description, price, availability, and the first paragraph of each chapter.

Library Access to Scholarship - A thematic essay on Open Access and rhetorical excess.

Finding a Balance: Improving and Extending Service - The third and last book excerpt, Chapter 9 of Balanced Libraries

Perspective: Informal Notes on the Lulu Experience - Comments so far on PoD self-publishing.

Cites & Insights 7:3 available

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, volume 7, issue 3, March 2007, is now available for downloading.

The 24-page issue, PDF as always, but HTML separates of some, not all, essays are available from the home page includes:

• Bibs & Blather - Who's out there, another language grump, and a reason for the peculiar issue.


• Old Media/New Media - Music and video


• Trends & Quick Takes - Five trends and seven quicker takes


• Net Media Perspective: Wikipedia Revisited


• My Back Pages - ten snarky little pieces.