November 2006 – Information Wants To Be Free

Random and cold medicine-induced thoughts on screencasting

Last summer, I was talking with someone from the planning committee of the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries' Fall Conference. Their theme was "Cool Tools and New Technologies" and I asked her…

RSS and Syndication search

LibWorm: Searching, syndicating and aggregating the bibliblogosphere

A few months ago, David Rothman asked me if there was any tool for searching the biblioblogosphere. At the time, there really wasn't much. I told him about LISFeeds, but…

hi Wikis

Talkin’ wikis in Lansing, MI

I'm out here in Lansing Michigan at The Library Rebooted conference, offered by the Michigan Library Consortium. I just talked about wikis and Jessamyn West is now talking about blogs.…

ALA

ALA through my eyes: One year later

It's been almost a year since I wrote some posts about gripes I had with ALA and suggestions of how the ALA could do better. At the time, I was…

reference search

Whatever you do don’t use Google!

After we teach our students how to distinguish between authoritative and unauthoritative resources, we need to actually show them how to find such authoritative resources. While our databases are great,…

free the information! tech trends

MaintainIT

While 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.…

LISZEN is the path to library blog search nirvana.

This is what we have needed in the biblioblogosphere for a long time. Have you ever been looking for a blog post you read a while back, but you don't…

instruction reference search

Do they care what they’re looking at?

About a week before I left for my vacation, Paul Pival, Ken Varnum and David Rothman had an interesting distributed discussion about how students are perceiving the research literature and…

free the information! librarianship

Michelle Boule is an emerging leader!

Michelle Boule by Etches-Johnson I want to wish a hearty congratulations to my good friend (and "wing man") Michelle Boule, for being chosen by LITA to represent them in the…

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