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.…
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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…
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,…
Posted infree 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.…
Posted insearch
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…
Posted inreference social software
Selling IM @ Your Library
Last year, I was very nervous about pushing the idea of IM Reference at my library. If anything, I totally over-prepared before even broaching the subject. I actually created a…
Posted ininstruction 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…
Posted infree 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…
Posted intech trends
Firefox 2 is my new best friend
Can I just tell you how much I love Firefox 2? I'm usually the last person in the world to download an update, but I'd heard such good things about…
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The Joy of Screencasting
Ever since I first started screencasting almost two years ago, I've been really surprised how few people are talking about how cool it is. It can be so hard to…
Posted inblogging RSS and Syndication
Bloglines Issues
Jennifer Macaulay mentioned today (at least I think it was today -- though by the time you see it, it could be three days from now) that she's noticed her…
Posted inRSS and Syndication
Feed2JS – Always a hitch
Ken Varnum, of RSS4LIB, and I were both speaking at the Dartmouth Biomedical Library's Fall Conference on Friday, and we were talking about Feed2JS (which I talked about with Paul…
Posted injob search librarianship social software
IL 2006 Wrapup
Wow! What an amazing conference! I can honestly say that I didn't go to a single bad/boring/irrelevant talk and, although I was sick and sidelined on Day 3, I got…
Posted insocial software tech trends
Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Wrapup
October Conference Wrap-up - Roy Tennant Roy discusses the salient points from each talk. Wikis: Creating Collaboration in Libraries Wikis are a low-threshold way to collaborate. Doesn't need to be…
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Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Mystery Topic
Staying Informed by Bill Garrity, Dartmouth University "Being geeky doesn't make us losers." We all have personal requirements for how we get information. Bill doesn't want to have to go…
Posted inhi social software
Dartmouth Conference – Emerging Mobile Technologies for Libraries
by Gabriel Rios, University of Alabama, Birmingham Mobile devices are another way to get content into the hands of our patrons. Types of mobile devices - PDAs/Smart Phones, Cell phones,…
Posted insocial software
Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Podcasting Panel
Our Content, Their Device: Three Uses of the iPod - Sarah G. Wenzel, Columbia University The librarians at Columbia University have developed library content that can be used on an…
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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IL2006 Day 2: Delivering Individualized Library Content: Portals and the Future of Library Web Sites.
Tom Ipri, La Salle University At Computers in Libraries in March, I had told Tom how excited I was about going to his talk and then I promptly went and…