Comments for SarahGlassmeyer(dot)com http://sarahglassmeyer.com in perpetual beta Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:03:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Making eBooks for Fun and No Profit by Episode 22: Welcome to 2012 — Law School Tech Talk http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=951&cpage=1#comment-4685 Episode 22: Welcome to 2012 — Law School Tech Talk Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:03:28 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=951#comment-4685 [...] Making eBooks for Fun and No Profit [...] [...] Making eBooks for Fun and No Profit [...]

]]> Comment on Making eBooks for Fun and No Profit by Weekly Round Up: What You May Have Missed in the World of Android | The Droid Lawyer™ http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=951&cpage=1#comment-4542 Weekly Round Up: What You May Have Missed in the World of Android | The Droid Lawyer™ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:31:11 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=951#comment-4542 [...] post isn’t really about Android, but it’s about creating e-books, which is the future of reading (unless you’re one who “still likes the feel of [...] [...] post isn’t really about Android, but it’s about creating e-books, which is the future of reading (unless you’re one who “still likes the feel of [...]

]]> Comment on Library Day in the Life – Round 8 by T Scott http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=974&cpage=1#comment-4515 T Scott Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:29:40 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=974#comment-4515 You're a librarian. Don't worry about it. See my Janet Doe Lecture here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257492/ (Breaking the barriers of time and space: the dawning of the great age of librarians.) Our future is not about what happens in libraries -- it's about the amazing things that librarians do, and will do, in a wide variety of traditional and oh so very not traditional settings. You’re a librarian. Don’t worry about it. See my Janet Doe Lecture here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257492/ (Breaking the barriers of time and space: the dawning of the great age of librarians.)

Our future is not about what happens in libraries — it’s about the amazing things that librarians do, and will do, in a wide variety of traditional and oh so very not traditional settings.

]]> Comment on Making eBooks for Fun and No Profit by Sarah http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=951&cpage=1#comment-4276 Sarah Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:29:58 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=951#comment-4276 True on both points. As for the first, I don't want to say I was "dumbing it down" but more trying to come up with a way of explaining it so that people not familiar with Open Office would find it accessible. And you could absolutely skip the MS Word part. I was writing this for people who have a bunch of MSWord manuscripts scattered about and didn't yet have Open Office installed - which I assume is a lot of people - and show how easily they can go from their pre-exisiting Word Doc to eBook. True on both points. As for the first, I don’t want to say I was “dumbing it down” but more trying to come up with a way of explaining it so that people not familiar with Open Office would find it accessible. And you could absolutely skip the MS Word part. I was writing this for people who have a bunch of MSWord manuscripts scattered about and didn’t yet have Open Office installed – which I assume is a lot of people – and show how easily they can go from their pre-exisiting Word Doc to eBook.

]]> Comment on Making eBooks for Fun and No Profit by walt crawford http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=951&cpage=1#comment-4260 walt crawford Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:43:19 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=951#comment-4260 Two problems with this really interesting and informative post. First, OpenOffice is <b>not</b> an "open source version of MS Word." Not even close. It's a powerful free office suite, but it ain't Word. or MSOffice. It might be worth noting that LibreOffice is, in effect, a near-twin to OpenOffice but without Oracle's corporate fingerprint. Second: If you have OpenOffice, why would you need Word at all? That would be especially questionable if your first statement was true...but since it isn't, I just ask: For the level of formatting that ePub can handle easily, why bother with the Word step? Two problems with this really interesting and informative post.

First, OpenOffice is not an “open source version of MS Word.” Not even close. It’s a powerful free office suite, but it ain’t Word. or MSOffice. It might be worth noting that LibreOffice is, in effect, a near-twin to OpenOffice but without Oracle’s corporate fingerprint.

Second: If you have OpenOffice, why would you need Word at all? That would be especially questionable if your first statement was true…but since it isn’t, I just ask: For the level of formatting that ePub can handle easily, why bother with the Word step?

]]> Comment on The Textbook Challenge by Beth http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=940&cpage=1#comment-4169 Beth Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:35:55 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=940#comment-4169 I've got two kids in college now. Last semester we spent $800 on books for my younger daughter, a first-year pre-nursing student. Her older sister is a nursing student just a few years older, but of course the required books have changed in the 3 years since she took the very same classes at the same school. (How much has human anatomy changed in 3 years? Really.) Several courses "required" books she never even had to crack open, which is absolutely criminal. I’ve got two kids in college now. Last semester we spent $800 on books for my younger daughter, a first-year pre-nursing student. Her older sister is a nursing student just a few years older, but of course the required books have changed in the 3 years since she took the very same classes at the same school. (How much has human anatomy changed in 3 years? Really.) Several courses “required” books she never even had to crack open, which is absolutely criminal.

]]> Comment on A Booth Bunny’s Tale by KC http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=929&cpage=1#comment-3984 KC Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:30:21 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=929#comment-3984 Great post Sarah. I see you feeling the pains that I once went through when I transitioned from 'librarian' to the dreaded V-word. I hate to tell you this, but once the scarlet V has been emblazoned on your chest, it's there for life. Not always a bad thing, but it certainly changes the way that you are viewed within the profession. Welcome to the dark side! Great post Sarah. I see you feeling the pains that I once went through when I transitioned from ‘librarian’ to the dreaded V-word. I hate to tell you this, but once the scarlet V has been emblazoned on your chest, it’s there for life. Not always a bad thing, but it certainly changes the way that you are viewed within the profession. Welcome to the dark side!

]]> Comment on Man Plans. God Laughs. 2011 in Review by laura http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=897&cpage=1#comment-3928 laura Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:20:29 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=897#comment-3928 <em>I think 2011 will be remembered by me as the year where I had to make a lot of really big decisions in a really short amount of time.</em> I think I had a sibling of your 2011 -- that describes my year EXACTLY, only with different decisions to make. Here's to those choices panning out well in 2012. I think 2011 will be remembered by me as the year where I had to make a lot of really big decisions in a really short amount of time.

I think I had a sibling of your 2011 — that describes my year EXACTLY, only with different decisions to make.

Here’s to those choices panning out well in 2012.

]]> Comment on LISVendor.info Update by Reverse vendor relations: I get all this crap for free, why aren’t more people paying attention? « Megan Lulofs is Library Lulu http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=892&cpage=1#comment-3620 Reverse vendor relations: I get all this crap for free, why aren’t more people paying attention? « Megan Lulofs is Library Lulu Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:39:20 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=892#comment-3620 [...] recycling! But wait, you say: isn’t that terribly wasteful? Aren’t librarians fighting a war against high prices from unreasonable vendors? I mean, yeah. I hear they are. But none of [...] [...] recycling! But wait, you say: isn’t that terribly wasteful? Aren’t librarians fighting a war against high prices from unreasonable vendors? I mean, yeah. I hear they are. But none of [...]

]]> Comment on Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Internet Memes by Librarians are brilliant « Sarah Kelly Wright http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=772&cpage=1#comment-3470 Librarians are brilliant « Sarah Kelly Wright Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:43:39 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=772#comment-3470 [...] [...] [...] [...]

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