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Cool things I found this week
By Meredith Farkas | December 1, 2005
- The unsinkable Rachel Singer Gordon’s column about the role Gen-X’ers can play as a bridge between the boomers and the millennials. She’s dead-on and this is an article you should clip out and give to the boomer library administrators you know.
- Heidi Dolamore’s blog, Quiddle. Her posts about her job interviews should be read by every library student. She’s also running for ALA Council, which I’m sure will also garner some interesting posts. Keep an eye on Heidi. She is definitely going to be a mover and shaker in the library world.
- Michael Yunkin’s terrific Digiwik: The Digitization Wiki, a wiki all about digitizing various types of media. I think a collective knowledge base is the best use of a wiki, so I’m psyched to see this addition.
- The release version of Firefox 1.5 is out!
- Tangognat’s Library 360: Snarky, but I can’t resist spartan armor!
- Aaron Schmidt’s description of his successful Dance Dance Revolution night at his library and how, yes, games can turn gamers into library patrons.
- Wordpress.com’s new free hosted blogs.
Topics: Wikis, blogging, job search, librarianship, libraries, our digital future, tech trends |
December 2nd, 2005 at 12:44 pm
Library 2.0 / Library 360 / Library 3-D
Some time soon I plan to jump into the Library 2.0 / Web 2.0 fray (I have no idea what it means, but I’m for it! I want my Library 2.0!), but in the meantime, I’m digging TangognaT’s snarky post…
December 2nd, 2005 at 12:56 pm
I prefer to stay on the fence and enjoy both sides. Can’t live without my daily dose of snark!
December 2nd, 2005 at 3:24 pm
Ah, I’m a little snarky, but more due to my hesitation about jargon than anything else. I do think that many of the “Library 2.0″ projects are quite nifty.
December 3rd, 2005 at 8:34 pm
I understand, tagognat; I really do love all the energy behind Library 2.0, but it helps not to take it all too seriously. Thanks for your fun post. (And I prefer sweater vests to cardigans, so maybe I should get a cuirass rather than the Spartan armor.)
December 6th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
Thanks for the kind words and for pointing folks to my blog! I’ll get busy writing those interesting posts about running for council.
December 7th, 2005 at 3:28 pm
[...] UPDATE: I just ran across Rachel Singer Gordon’s article on “The Bridge Generation” in LJ (thanks, Meredith!). Gen X, we need you! [...]