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Friday, January 25th, 2008As I’ve been spending more time than I would like in waiting rooms over the past few weeks, I’ve had the chance to catch up on some reading; namely Library Technology Reports.
Michelle Boule wrote a terrific LTR called Changing the Way We Work, in which she covers tools for online collaboration. Michelle is really [...]
Saying goodbye to 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007When I look back to the beginning of 2007, I’m really surprised at how much has happened in just one year. At the end of December last year, we were just contacting the students we’d accepted into the Five Weeks to a Social Library course. I don’t think any of us knew how incredibly successful [...]
Divisions, dogma, and just doing a good job
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007I have to admit that the Annoyed Librarian is one of my guilty pleasures. I love to laugh and she makes me laugh like crazy, even though she’s probably insulted me on her blog in the past and I was too thick to notice. Reading something that is so diametrically opposed to most of what [...]
My Top Technology Trends for 2007
Friday, June 15th, 2007When I was asked to be one of the Top Tech Trend experts, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to attend the actual panel session this year, because I was slotted to be on another panel at the same time. I knew I’d at least post something to the LITA Blog, but I [...]
Well, I said yes.
Thursday, April 26th, 2007Last night, I got an e-mail asking if I’d like to join the LITA Top Technology Trends panel as one of their experts. And it didn’t take me more than 2 seconds to decide that I was going to say yes. Wow! What an honor to be included with such a distinguished group of professionals! [...]
If I just had 15 minutes each day
Thursday, April 26th, 2007Stephen Abram wrote a column for Information Outlook on Learning 2.0 called 15 Minutes a Day: A Personal Learning Management Strategy. So it got me thinking. If I had 15 minutes each day to keep up with technology and libraries’ use of technology, what would I do?
Here’s what I would suggest…
Keep up with just a [...]
Congratulations Roy!
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007My good friend, Roy Tennant, has just accepted a sweet job at OCLC, and he didn’t even have to leave Northern CA! I don’t quite understand exactly what he’ll be doing there, but I know that anything he works on is going to be great. OCLC has been making some good hires lately and I [...]
CIL Reflections
Friday, April 20th, 2007I got back home from Computers in Libraries yesterday afternoon. The sky was a beautiful blue (still is) and the weather finally convinced me that it might be possible to get my snow tires removed. What a nice change from the weather I’ve been experiencing in Arlington, VA and New York City over the past [...]
Early Impressions at CIL
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007Meredith Farkas on Social Software
Originally uploaded by madinkbeard.
I did a lot of blogging at the last two major national conferences I attended. I decided this time, given that I’m giving so many talks, doing the book signing, etc., I would just kind of take things [...]
Conference season begins!
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007And what a season it’s going to be! Last year, I gave my first conference talk ever at Computers in Libraries. Since then, I’ve given around 18 talks and I have 10 talks scheduled between now and the end of June. Insane! And it all starts Friday!
On Friday, I’ll be giving the keynote (another first!) [...]
Nintendo Wii: Meredith’s Mii
Sunday, January 7th, 2007Nintendo Wii: Meredith’s Mii
Originally uploaded by SirStan.
I have a Mii! I have to say, I thought I could wait until the summer or next Fall to buy a Wii, but after playing it at a friend’s house last night, I’m really starting to get [...]
Casey rocks and everyone knows it!
Monday, December 4th, 2006I just wanted to take a moment out while slogging through my book galley (more on that at a later date) to congratulate my friend Casey Bisson on being awarded the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for his development of the WPopac, a groundbreaking catalog with Wordpress as the front end. Casey deserves a ton [...]
MaintainIT
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006While at Internet Librarian, I learned about the Maintain IT Project. This three-year Bill and Melinda Gates funded initiative is designed to identify best practices for maintaining public access computers. Right now, they are collecting stories from library folks about working with public access computers and keeping them running. From these stories of success and [...]
Firefox 2 is my new best friend
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006Can I just tell you how much I love Firefox 2? I’m usually the last person in the world to download an update, but I’d heard such good things about it that I threw caution to the wind. And the hype was definitely warranted. Some cool features include:
Spell-checking in forms (it’s doing it right [...]
Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Wrapup
Friday, October 27th, 2006October Conference Wrap-up – Roy Tennant
Roy discusses the salient points from each talk.
Wikis: Creating Collaboration in Libraries
Wikis are a low-threshold way to collaborate. Doesn’t need to be open to everyone to change. Search capability. Requires trust among a community (though it is easy to rollback changes). Many potential uses. Don’t even have to install software. [...]
Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Mystery Topic
Friday, October 27th, 2006Staying Informed by Bill Garrity, Dartmouth University
“Being geeky doesn’t make us losers.”
We all have personal requirements for how we get information. Bill doesn’t want to have to go somewhere to find info. He wants it pushed to it.
He designs his browser environment to keep up. He has a tabbed browser and multiple home pages. [...]
Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – RSS Panel
Friday, October 27th, 2006Using RSS to Promote Scholarly Publications – Ken Varnum, Tufts University
RSS stands for real simple syndication. It’s an xml-based data format for syndicating content. Way to send a title, URL and abstract to aggregators, websites, etc.
How do you let the world know that your feed is updated? By pinging aggregators or by including recent headlines [...]
Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Keynote
Friday, October 27th, 2006I just got home last night from California around 8:30 PM and am now, at what was 6:10 am for me yesterday, sitting at Dartmouth at a terrific conference they give every year. This year’s theme is Cool Tools and New Technologies and I’m thrilled to be part of a terrific roster of speakers today [...]
Why transparency is important (or, how to lose your customers)
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006Let me preface this by saying that when I first started my job over a year ago, I was a big fan of EBSCO. Students found their interface easy to use, they were always improving their interface and offerings, and our local Rep was really responsive to our e-mails and questions. But something has [...]
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 [...]
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