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PALINET Leadership Network

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Walt Crawford started his work on the PALINET Leadership Network site less than a year ago, but already, he has made it a terrific resource for people in our profession. Some of the articles on the wiki are original, while others are compilations of writings on a theme by a variety of innovators and leaders [...]

Computers in Libraries (CIL2008) - My Brain is Full

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

the group - for Connie

Originally uploaded by cindiann

I had a really wonderful time at Computers in Libraries, as always. While there are always certain talks where the delivery is disappointing or where you don’t learn anything, I went to a lot of talks that were [...]

We have wiki!

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Library Research Guides wiki

Originally uploaded by librarianmer

A while back, I wrote about the challenges I had in finding the right platform for our subject guides. Well, I’m pleased to say that I just linked to our subject guides from the front page of the library [...]

Don’t take what you know for granted

Friday, January 4th, 2008

As liaison to all of the distance learning programs at our University, I frequently deal with our Interlibrary Loan Librarian. We can’t do traditional book interlibrary loan with our distance learners because the loan times do not allow sufficient time for us to ship the materials to the student and for the student to consult [...]

A personal ad for open source project help

Monday, December 24th, 2007

For several years, I have used Feed2JS. It’s a great tool that makes it easy to display an RSS feed on any web page and to style the content to match the page. Many libraries are using Feed2JS on their own websites; some host it on their own server (that’s what I do), while others [...]

Massachusetts School Library Association Conference

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

I spent last weekend at the Massachusetts School Library Association Conference in Sturbridge, MA. I didn’t get to spend much time there because I had to be back at work on Monday, but I still ended up having a wonderful time. The night before my talks on Sunday, I had dinner with the wonderful group [...]

Off to Massachusetts

Friday, November 9th, 2007

This weekend I’m driving down to Sturbridge, MA for the Massachusetts School Library Association conference. I’m giving a workshop on wikis… twice. I’ve never given the same talk twice in one day, but it’ll be an interesting opportunity to immediately improve my talk based on my observations during the first iteration. My slides are already [...]

The long road towards subject guide 2.0

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

When I finally got control over the library’s Web presence last year (a long process better discussed in a post of its own), the first thing I did was take down the library “subject guides.” You could hardly call these things subject guides; they were just a bunch of Web links in different areas. Some [...]

From the “to blog” folder

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

When I find a post or article interesting and think I might want to comment on it, it goes into the “to blog” folder. That folder is getting pretty darn full, and I think it’s time I accept that I’m not going to blog all of these things and maybe should just point to some [...]

Giving and Taking

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Oh Meredith, why can’t you just write a nice, short, concise post?
I really don’t know what happens! I start writing and my fingers just seem to take over. This is what happens when my husband goes away and leaves me alone with my thoughts. Sorry folks!
Something I frequently think about when I go to [...]

Any readers of my blog from Quebec? (y a-t-il des lecteurs Québécois de mon blog?)

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Ok, enough of my very rusty and pathetic French.
Tomorrow I’ll be heading up to beautiful Montreal for the Quebec Library Association Conference. I’ll be giving a talk on the afternoon of May 4th entitled Building Collaboration with Wikis (the description — in English and French naturellement — is available in the program).
If [...]

Let 100 wikis bloom?

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

In Please, Not Another Wiki Casey Bisson complains about the proliferation of wikis:
Perhaps I cringe at any suggestion to create a new wiki because I wonder why that content can’t be published on an existing wiki. Perhaps I cringe because I wonder if the proprietary motivation to create a new wiki is itself in conflict [...]

Medical Wikis?

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Update: I received an e-mail from one of the creators of Ask Dr. Wiki stating that they are now requiring folks to prove that they have medical credentials before they are allowed to contribute to the wiki. I hate barriers as much as the next person, but in the case of a medical wiki, there [...]

Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 3

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

As you all know, I’m a big fan of wikis, such a big fan that I often cannot gauge how other people will respond when they are introduced to wikis. Well, imagine my surprise to discover how incredibly enthusiastic our participants were this week about implementing wikis in their library; probably more so than any [...]

Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 2

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Week two of Five Weeks to a Social Library is now over. RSS and del.icio.us really generated a lot of excitement for our participants and many could see the personal and professional benefits of using these tools. We have people spending 16 hours per week on the class because they want to play with these [...]

Intelligence 2.0

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

I never thought I’d say this… but I want to go work for the Pentagon!
Lewis Shepherd sent me this Computer World article about some of the cool things they are doing in the intelligence community with wikis, RSS, AJAX and Mashups. In particular, they mention the Intellipedia which was launched in 2004 and seeks to [...]

PBWiki’s Point and Click Editor

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

I mentioned PBWiki’s new editing interface a few weeks ago, but this week was the official launch of this tool. I truly think that having a WYSIWYG editor like PBWiki has now is going to break down the biggest barrier to adding content to a wiki. Wiki markup may be easier than HTML for some [...]

CIL 2007 Wiki (like you weren’t expecting it!)

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

I just wanted to give people a head’s up that the wiki for this year’s Computers in Libraries conference is up and people are already starting to add content. I’ve already got my schedule online and I’m really excited about speaking at the conference and seeing some of the terrific talks on the roster. I’m [...]

A new (and needed) blog

Monday, January 29th, 2007

On a happy note, a friend of mine has recently started a blog in an area of librarianship that doesn’t get enough discussion in the blogosphere: access services. Mary Chimato is the head of access and delivery services at NCSU, and started Circ and Serve because she saw a gaping hole in its representation on [...]

Help create your wiki’s guidelines!

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

In light of what I was writing about wikis and participation, I would like to ask for your help. I have been wanting to have some guidelines on the Library Success Wiki, similar to those that govern the Wikipedia. However, I never wanted to do it on my own for fear that it would be [...]

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