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Federated searching and why users aren’t finding/using your electronic materials

Looking at my alma mater’s library website, I noticed that they are implementing a new federated search tool that searches eight resources (a mix of A&I databases and full-text). It's…

blogging libraries

Movers and Shakers!

Two bloggers from whose writing I get a great deal of food for thought were just named "movers and shakers" by Library Journal. Congratulations Aaron Schmidt and Michael Stephens! You…

libraries

What They Didn’t Tell You in Library School

So this week I'm all alone in the big chilly city of Chicago (hubby's in New England on business). When, on Monday, I heard that there was a free conference…

libraries our digital future reference

Screencasting? Finally something I can get behind!

I think Podcasting is cool, but not for me. I'm a visual learner, so listening to my favorite bloggers takes more mental energy to absorb than reading their blog entries.…

reference search

Google Maps: Oh the possibilities!!!

When I wrote my first post on how excited I was about Google Maps, I had no earthly idea what the broad capabilities of the application were. I don't think…

ALA blogging

Neil Gaiman isn’t a fan of Michael Gorman

Neil Gaiman isn't a fan of Michael Gorman either (welcome to the club). I've been really amazed by the reaction of people outside of the library world to Gorman's piece,…

ALA blogging our digital future

Michael Gorman and “Revenge of the Blog People”

Blog people... Sounds like creatures from a cheesy sci-fi movie you'd see on MST3K. ;) I know this has been talked to death, but as a dues-paying member of the…

reference search

Google Movies!

Yes, another new Google search tool (it seems like there's been a new one every day over the past few months!). Google Blog reports that Google has come out with…

libraries

Sometimes we all need a little reminder…

Sometimes we all need a little reminder why we got into the library field in the first place. When you hear about the lack of a librarian shortage, the low…

ALA intellectual freedom

What is happening to our country?

I was more than a little frightened when I saw the survey, sponsored by the James L. Knight Foundation, which found that 35% of the high school students surveyed thought…

libraries

Questioning library terminology

I just found this very interesting website via TangognaT. John Kupersmith, a reference librarian at UC Berkeley has collected usability survey data from various libraries as well as the library…

blogging reference

Fabulous maps

Ever since I started this blog, I've made a big effort to post regularly. Unfortunately, I slacked off last week. Well, I don't know if packing, putting our junk into…

libraries our digital future

Library websites that don’t suck

Thank you Librarian Avengers for spelling out what most of us say to ourselves day after day as we navigate library websites and library catalogs: most library websites suck. In…

job search libraries

The art of the interview

I've had many interviews, both in the social work and library fields. Some have gone great and some have been disasters. But the disasters haven't always been mine. I've read…

our digital future reference

What a wonderful Wiki world

If 2004 was the year of the blog, I think 2005 will be the year of the Wiki. Wikis first came to my attention in 2003 in the form of…

reference search

The cool yellow pages

If you haven't already, go check out A9.com, a yellow pages for the future. More a reference work than simply a "phone book", A9 allows users to not only search…

libraries reference search

Giving the patron what s/he wants

Steph at TechnoBiblio wrote about an interesting observation at a recent panel discussion she attended: The final panelist came forth with a statement that seemed to take the audience by…

our digital future reference

The future of virtual reference services

I've been reading a lot of great articles and posts about the viability of virtual reference and how we can make it better for our patrons. The Library Journal article,…

libraries

The place of the ALA in Salinas

Michael McGrorty is an ALA Councilor and a man of conscience. He is one of the few people who has made more than a mention about the Salinas libraries and…

job search libraries

A day in the life…

Curious about what a library web manager does in an average day? Dave King offers us a glimpse into his work at the Kansas City Public Library: Checked email, bloglines,…

Federated searching and why users aren’t finding/using your electronic materials

Movers and Shakers!

What They Didn’t Tell You in Library School

Screencasting? Finally something I can get behind!

Google Maps: Oh the possibilities!!!

Neil Gaiman isn’t a fan of Michael Gorman

Michael Gorman and “Revenge of the Blog People”

Google Movies!

Sometimes we all need a little reminder…

What is happening to our country?

Questioning library terminology

Fabulous maps

Library websites that don’t suck

The art of the interview

What a wonderful Wiki world

The cool yellow pages

Giving the patron what s/he wants

The future of virtual reference services

The place of the ALA in Salinas

A day in the life…

On 20 Years of Blogging at Information Wants to be Free

A review of Information Literacy and Social Media by Santamaría and Pfannenstiel

Community Time and Enoughness: The heart of slow librarianship

Queer Time, Crip Time, and Subverting Temporal Norms