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Public libraries using 2.0 technologies
I got an interesting question from a reader that I really wanted to open up to the community on my blog rather than pretending that I'm knowledgeable enough to answer…
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Selling RSS to the busy clinician or faculty member
I recently revamped the subject guide for our Information Assurance (basically Info Security) masters program. One thing I did was mix together several info security news feeds into one using…
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Walkin’ in a Wiki Wonderland
You know, I'm really going to end up running out of titles for my wiki posts, but that's a good sign. It is so exciting and gratifying to me to…
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Facebook at Bennington’s Crossett Library
Since posting about social networking software almost 2 weeks ago, I have been corresponding with Oceana Wilson of the Crossett Library at Bennington College. They are the library that has…
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Libraries in Social Networking Software
I've been listening and quietly taking in all of the talk about social networking software and the library's place (if any) in that software. I've raised a few questions on…
Information Literacy Online: If you build it… will they come?
Before I started my job, there were no instructional materials provided to online students on how to use the library resources (there also was no distance learning librarian to create…
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On skill sharing
Last November, I went to a meeting of Vermont colleges where we discussed doing more consortial activities. We broke up into groups to discuss different ideas and then reported to…
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Social software in academic libraries: what’s most important?
In mid-May, I'm giving an hour-long talk at the Vermont Library Association's Annual Conference about using social software in academic libraries. The majority of the population I'll be talking to…
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The heart of rock n’ Roll… is in the library
If you haven't taken a look at this terrific library marketing video from LIS students at the University of Pittsburgh, what are you waiting for? These students could teach experienced…
HigherEd BlogCon Library Track: Day 1
I just wanted to let you all know that today is the first day of the Library and Information Resources track of HigherEd BlogCon. We've got a great schedule of…
Good reading
This has been a rockin' week for reading -- I wish I actually had more time to do it. Rachel Singer Gordon wrote an amazing column for Library Journal entitled…
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions
I've been doing a whole lot of thinking lately about helping patrons, marketing our services, and just generally about making libraries better. Something Steven Bell wrote recently got me thinking…
Marketing @ my library: your input needed
OK, so I'm not a marketing expert by any stretch of the imagination. But I know that we need some serious marketing PR stuff to go on at my library.…
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2.0, the book and podcasting: what I’ve been up to
This may be the longest I've gone without writing in my blog since I started it. Sorry 'bout that. All the craziness that went on in the comments section of…
Wiki world presentation
I think the presentation went really well yesterday! A crazy number of people showed up -- 120 at one point. So of course with that many people, the co-browsing didn't…
Patience and staff buy-in
I'm not the most patient person in the world (I can just imagine my husband snickering when he reads this). Ok, I'm really impatient. I have a lot of ideas…
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Let’s make libraries better, ok?
Since the fall, I've pretty much been processing my thoughts about Library 2.0 on this blog in real-time. If one is going for ideological consistency, it's probably not the best…
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Go where the patrons are… literally
In New Jersey, the Camden County Library System did just that. In November, they opened Shelf Life, a decidedly non-traditional branch of the library at the Echelon Mall in Voorhees.…
Label 2.0
It's a bird. It's a plane. No! It's Library 2.0! What is Library 2.0? Is it all about technology? It is new? Is it just old? If Library 2.0 were…
