Silverfish Podcast #004 -- Dr. Janes vs Watson and The End Of Days

Karl and Dr. Janes discuss the implications of IBM's Jeopardy playing supercomputer. Will some clever assemblage of Big Data and Natural Language Processing spell the end of the Librarian as a profession? Find out here first!

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Silverfish Podcast #002

This episode features an interview with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the University of Washington. Conor walks us through his personal and family involvement with labor as well as his interest in the greater context of labor's influence on Pacific Northwest Culture. His library guide-page can be found here. The Labor Archives of Washington State at: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/laws/ is the long URL he mentioned at the end of the interview.

You can listen to this episode at:

http://students.washington.edu/aliss/silverfish/podcast/002_Silverfish_podcast.mp3

or subscribe by pointing your favorite podcatcher at:

http://students.washington.edu/aliss/silverfish/silverfish.xml

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All your blogs are belong to us (we hope)

The Silverfish's Blog Roll (http://students.washington.edu/aliss/silverfish/siteDocs/blogroll.html) has been updated!

We've been keeping this list iSchooler blogs, websites and podcasts since 2008, and welcome your contributions. If you are blogging, podding or otherwise interacting in an internet-facing sorta way, we want to tell the iSchool community about it. Just send us a a link and a short bio and we'll do our bit to add to your web-based immortality.

The Silverfish has gone audio!

You can listen to our first podcast at:

http://students.washington.edu/aliss/silverfish/podcast/001_Silverfish_podcast.mp3

or subscribe by pointing your favorite podcatcher at:

http://students.washington.edu/aliss/silverfish/silverfish.xml

In this episode, The UW's Special Project Librarian, John Gibbs talks about the importance of transforming the University's collection of 78 RPM discs into digital formats.

The links to the collections and pages discussed in this podcast are available here:

The music library special collections:
http://guides.lib.washington.edu/content.php?pid=61896&sid=998151

The Offenbacher Mozart Collection
http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/mozart.html

Audio Preservation:
http://guides.lib.washington.edu/AudioPreservation

Library Book Blogs: The good the bad and the ugly

"Awful Library Books," one of my favorite blogs , has a new address and a new look. If you haven't seen this site, you should definitely check it out. It's a great reminder of the importance of weeding!



Afterward, you can cleanse your eyeballs by spending some time on my other favorite site, BibliOdyssey.

Inside Edition takes on the library

Lisa M. submitted this clip from Inside Edition about the director's salary at the New York City Public Library. Both a written article and the clip from the show are at this URL. What do you think about tabloid TV's take on library salaries?

http://www.insideedition.com/news/5157/inside-edition-investigates-monster-salaries.aspx

Thanks Lisa!