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Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – RSS Panel

Using RSS to Promote Scholarly Publications - Ken Varnum, Tufts University RSS stands for real simple syndication. It's an xml-based data format for syndicating content. Way to send a title,…
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Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Keynote

I just got home last night from California around 8:30 PM and am now, at what was 6:10 am for me yesterday, sitting at Dartmouth at a terrific conference they…
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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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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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What shall we write about?

Dorothea asks TechEssence readers what you'd like us all to write about. We've really got a really diverse range of tech expertise in this bunch, so take advantage of it!…
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TechEssence.info: 100% technology, 0% hype

I'm a nuts and bolts kinda gal. I like books, articles and conference sessions that give me real, concrete ideas for how I can do good things in my library.…
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CIL: Impressions

I feel like I've been run over by a train. In addition to being completely exhausted by the conference and waking up with a migraine, I seem to have come…
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CIL06 Day 3: The Future of Catalogs

This session was PACKED! I came in with Dave King and we both had to sit on the floor. There aren't too many folks I'd sit on the floor for,…
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CIL Day 3: Virtual Teaching Moments

The Teaching Moment in Virtual Reference – Clara Hudson Clara Hudson is a librarian at the University of Scranton. When doing reference by phone e-mail and chat, we lose the…
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CIL Day 2: Information Literacy and Instruction

How Basic is Basic? - Kathleen Stacy She is talking about one-shot reference sessions. It was nice to see her say that it’s better to have the students come to…
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CIL Day 1: Building Community With IM

Participants: Amanda Etches-Johnson, Aaron Schmidt, and Michael Stephens Why are we spending so much money on commercial software when we could just put an IM name online for our patrons?…
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CIL Day1: Reaching Out to Your Community

talk given by Tom Peters and Lori Bell of OPAL OPAL stands for Online Programming for All Libraries. Lori used to be the head of the Illinois Talking Book Center.…
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HigherEd BlogCon is on the way!

In just a couple of weeks, HigherEd BlogCon will be starting! It will be going on all month on the HigherEd BlogCon blog and through several Webcasts. I encourage all…
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HigherEd BlogCon Call for Presenters Closing Jan 31

January 31st is the deadline for submissions to HigherEd BlogCon. If you have some great ideas about how to implement social tools in libraries or are doing cool things at…
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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…
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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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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…
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CFP: HigherEd BlogCon

As you may know, I'm chairing the Library and Information Resources Track of HigherEd BlogCon, a totally online conference exploring the new technologies being used in higher education. Michelle Boule…
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Cool things I found this week2

Here are some of the great things I've found this week: Roy Tennant's brilliant What I Wish I Had Known, a reflection on the things he would have been better…
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Know a social software mover and shaker?

Is your library doing something exciting with social software? Do you know of a library or a librarian who is doing cool stuff with social software? The applications could either…
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