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IL 2006 Day 1: Federated Search: State of the Art
Jeff Wisnewski and Frank Cervone I haven't really looked much at federated search tools since my post on using MetaLib well over a year ago. So I was very interested…
Posted inlibrarianship our digital future
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…
Posted inlibrarianship our digital future
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…
Internet Librarian Day 1: Innovative Uses of Web 2.0 Technologies
Jason Clark (Montana State University) and Karen Coombs (University of Houston) Incorporating Web 2.0 into Library Websites by Karen Coombs Web 2.0 concepts – Radical decentralization – usually you have…
Internet Librarian Day 1: Public Library 2.0: Emerging Technologies and Changing Roles
Michael Stephens, Jenny Levine and Helene Blowers Yes, I know I’m not a public librarian, but I thought this would be a really interesting talk. I’ve never actually heard Michael…
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…
The good, the bad and the utterly hillarious
I have been ridiculously busy getting ready for the five talks I have coming up in the next three weeks. I have to have the slides for them all totally…
Posted inlibraries
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,…
Posted inlibraries tech trends Work
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…
Posted inlibrarianship
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…
Five Weeks to a Social Library: Participant Application
I'm so pleased and excited to see how Five Weeks to a Social Library is shaping up! We have a terrific group of presenters involved in the course who will…
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…
Posted inlibrarianship online education
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…
Posted ininstruction reference
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…
Posted inlibrarianship RSS and Syndication Wikis
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…
Posted inonline education social software
Five Weeks to a Social Library Presenters
Friday is the deadline to submit a proposal to provide content for the Five Weeks to a Social Library course. While we have gotten a lot of proposals on certain…
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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…
Posted inblogging RSS and Syndication
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,…
Posted inblogging librarianship
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…
Posted inintellectual freedom Vermont
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…