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Archive for April, 2006
Teaching us enough to be dangerous…
Thursday, April 27th, 2006Hey, check out Steve Lawson’s terrific presentation on HigherEd BlogCon today: Know Enough to be Dangerous: Tools for Taking Control of HTML and CSS. There is some very good information for people who want to monkey around in the CSS for their blog to change the look and layout. Nice job, Steve!
Blogosphere welcome wagon
Thursday, April 27th, 2006For almost a month I’ve been meaning to write about three great new blogs that came on the scene fairly recently, but the post somehow got lost in the suffle of life.
Library Garden – I’m really excited to see the growth of collaborative blogs. Not that I don’t like following [...]
On skill sharing
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006Last November, I went to a meeting of Vermont colleges where we discussed doing more consortial activities. We broke up into groups to discuss different ideas and then reported to everyone at the meeting. One of the things we discussed in our group was the idea of skill-sharing. It is often the [...]
Social software in academic libraries: what’s most important?
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006In mid-May, I’m giving an hour-long talk at the Vermont Library Association’s Annual Conference about using social software in academic libraries. The majority of the population I’ll be talking to has not used any of these tools, so I’m trying to figure out what would be most valuable to talk about. I’m torn [...]
Self-Promotion Wiki
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006After writing my last post, I started thinking that it really would be helpful to have a resource with information on self-promotion for new librarians. So I started one here on the Library Success Wiki. Stop by and add your knowledge to what could be a tremendous resource for new librarians. What [...]
Shameless self-promoter
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006I have been reading the discussions regarding “movers and shakers” and the “self-promoting elite” with great interest. See these posts (and many comments on the first two) at The Shifted Librarian, Walt at Random, Caveat Lector and The Liminal Librarian. I find it very interesting how a post about how libraries can keep [...]
The heart of rock n’ Roll… is in the library
Saturday, April 15th, 2006If you haven’t taken a look at this terrific library marketing video from LIS students at the University of Pittsburgh, what are you waiting for? These students could teach experienced library marketing experts a thing or two about selling the library to young people.
Gaming in libraries: thoughts and links
Saturday, April 15th, 2006I’ve been seeing and reading so much about gaming and its relevance to libraries that there is no way I could summarize it all on this blog (especially since a lot of the research has been done for my book and I wouldn’t want to spoil the ending ). But I would [...]
It’s a wiki wiki wiki wiki world
Saturday, April 15th, 2006I don’t know what’s going on… but I like it.
I know, I said a while back that 2005 was going to be the year of the wiki, but I really underestimated the time it takes for people to see the real practical benefits of a social tool. I think by the end of this [...]
HigherEd BlogCon and the flu: a winning combination
Saturday, April 15th, 2006I have been working since November to make HigherEd BlogCon a success. And whatdayaknow? I get the flu, just as the Library and Information Resources week begins. I have been feeling hella-bad since Monday and although I’m definitely a lot better, I’m still only at the level of having a really bad [...]
HigherEd BlogCon Library Track: Day 1
Monday, April 10th, 2006I just wanted to let you all know that today is the first day of the Library and Information Resources track of HigherEd BlogCon. We’ve got a great schedule of presentations this week that cover a wide range of topics dealing with technology in libraries. If you’d like to take part in the [...]
What shall we write about?
Thursday, April 6th, 2006Dorothea asks TechEssence readers what you’d like us all to write about. We’ve really got a really diverse range of tech expertise in this bunch, so take advantage of it! Let us know what tech topics you’d like to hear from us about.
New blog from a familiar face!
Thursday, April 6th, 2006There’s another new blog on the block this week! The Liminal Librarian is written by the inimitable and indomitable Rachel Singer Gordon, one of the best writers in the profession today. For those with limited vocabularies (like me! I didn’t have a clue.) liminality is the state of being “in between,” which [...]
TechEssence.info: 100% technology, 0% hype
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006I’m a nuts and bolts kinda gal. I like books, articles and conference sessions that give me real, concrete ideas for how I can do good things in my library. I think a lot of librarians are like that. We’re all busy people and many of us only have time for professional [...]
HigherEd BlogCon Starts Today!
Monday, April 3rd, 2006Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for this free online conference about the use of social software and other Web tools in higher education.
If you only want to see the library stuff, there’s an RSS feed for each separate track and here’s the feed for the Library and Information Resources Track. [...]
