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Internet Librarian Day 1: The Basics of Web-Based Experience Planning

by David King, newly of the Topeka and Shawnee Public Library David showed a whole bunch of library Websites that give users a really bad experience. There was one where…

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Internet Librarian Day 1: Using Ethnographic Methods to Know Your Users

Judi Briden, Katie Clark and Isabel Kaplan from the University of Rochester. They did a two year project to determine what undergraduates really do when they write research papers. They…

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Internet Librarian Day 1: Getting Started

I am in beautiful Monterey now, having left the Wine Country this weekend to head to Internet Librarian. The vacation was everything I needed it to be and I’m here…

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Genre Fiction ID System

My dad (Jody Gorran) is a crazy entrepreneur. He has had more businesses (and business ideas) since I was born than years that I've been alive. From a hair salon,…

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Why transparency is important (or, how to lose your customers)

Let 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…

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Do you know someone who moves? Shakes?

Library Journal is looking for nominations for their 2007 Movers and Shakers issue. They have an online nomination form that makes it wicked easy to nominate someone whom you think…

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Why I wasn’t at Library Camp East

I had really wanted to go to Library Camp East since some of my favorite people would be there as well as people I have been dying to meet for…

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Female speakers in library tech: an interesting finding

Friday was the deadline for proposals from content creators for Five Weeks to a Social Library. At the beginning of the week, some of the planning committee was beginning to…

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Zotero – is this what we’ve been waiting for?

I got my library a trial of RefWorks this summer (with the way our distance learners do school work -- often at home and work -- it makes much more…

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Coming Soon… Internet Librarian

I'm starting to get excited! Internet Librarian is coming in one month!!! Ok, maybe I'm a little bit more excited about the week before that which I will be spending…

Saying goodbye to Abuelo

I know it's been a while since I posted anything here. It's been a tough few weeks. For the past week, I've been in Florida at my Abuelo's bedside (Abuelo…

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A rogue RSS feed

Today, I got an e-mail from a reader of this blog. She told me that she reads my blog through Bloglines and that every time she clicks on a link,…

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Happy Blog Day!

Today is Blog Day, ostensibly because the date sort of looks like the word blog (3108) if you squint or perhaps are a really creative-minded person. It's a day where…

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Why my (and probably your) congressman voted for DOPA

This is why. You've got to check out the actual ad; it had me half laughing half furious. I don't write much about politics on this blog, but I have…

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Confused thoughts on gender, libraries and tech

There's been a whole lot of hubbub about those crazy articles on Forbes.com about wives being compared to whores and the appeal to Forbes' male readers to not marry a…