The “kept-up” distance learning librarianALA, blogging, job search, libraries, library school, RSS and Syndication, screencasting, social bookmarking, tech trends

by Meredith Farkas on 7/21/2005 with 15 comments

I have gotten several emails from library students who feel that their programs are not teaching them enough about technology. The student I heard from a few days ago expressed concerns that she would be at a distinct disadvantage when she got out of school and wondered if I learned what I know about technology …

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technology in information literacy: an appealblogging, libraries, our digital future, RSS and Syndication

by Meredith Farkas on 3/17/2005 with 3 comments

I’m going to be doing a presentation on information literacy in a few weeks, and I’m planning on looking at how new technologies can be used in information literacy instruction. I was thinking of looking at screencasting/flash tutorials (using camtasia, captivate, etc.), podcasting, wikis, blogging, rss, social bookmarking (del.icio.us, FURL, etc.), or anything else that …

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Email lists in my bloglines?RSS and Syndication

by Meredith Farkas on 2/28/2005 with Comments Off on Email lists in my bloglines?

Over at The Blog Driver’s Waltz, Geoff has offered up a step-by-step way of subscribing to email lists via Bloglines. The amazing thing is that you can still use traditional email functions from Bloglines (like reply to posts). I must admit that these days I use Bloglines far more often than I use the email …

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RSS for lawyers (and us)RSS and Syndication

by Meredith Farkas on 2/7/2005 with Comments Off on RSS for lawyers (and us)

Feedmelegal is a blog all about RSS and blogging in the legal field. The author has a great list of links to tools for the growing world of RSS. Included are search feed creators, feed aggregators, feed creators for HTML sites, RSS to email tools, etc. All of this is meant to supplement his 16 …

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Feedster job searchjob search, RSS and Syndication

by Meredith Farkas on 1/20/2005 with Comments Off on Feedster job search

Feedster has come out with a job search tool where users can search for a job and then subscribe to the feed for that search. I put in a search for “librarian” and there weren’t too many good, current, or relevant results. Perhaps it would be a better tool in searching under other fields (business …

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