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The community in computing
The Linux Librarian has a great post on why open source and blogging are so great: This is why open source works. From my comments, from yesterday, from James Robertson:…
Posted inlibraries 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…
Posted inblogging
Online Social Networks Conference
Michael Stephens and Aaron Schmidt (the Batman and Robin of the library blogging world) will be presenting The Library Blogosphere: Toward a Working Taxonomy at the Online Social Networks Conference,…
Posted inblogging
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
I know this article isn't new, but it's new to me and it may be new to you. Jon Udell wrote a concise and tremendously insightful article in InfoWorld entitled…
Posted inRSS and Syndication
RSS for lawyers (and us)
Feedmelegal is a blog all about RSS and blogging in the legal field. The author has a great list of links to tools for the growing world of RSS. Included…
Posted injob search
Darn that dream
I've applied and interviewed for jobs that I have not gotten. I've gotten used to rejection letters and all that. Usually I don't get my hopes up, so it's not…
Posted injob 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…
Posted inour 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…
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…
Posted inGeneral
Cool tool for bookmarklet multitasking
Are you torn between using furl, del.icio.us, and the growing number of similar sites? Well worry no longer friends! Steven Cohen just posted about one of the cooler bookmarklet tools…
Posted inour digital future
Tech support by the book
Right now, my hubby, Adam, and I live right near his parents and, like many people in our generation, Adam is their tech-support guy. Since we're moving to Chicago in…
Posted inopen source
OSS Patent Search
For those interested in developing open source software based on the patents offered for free by IBM and others, PatentCafe has come out with OSS Patent Search Engine, a natural…
Posted inopen source
Open source in Brazil
NPR this morning had a great story about how Brazil is switching 300,000 government computers from Windows to Linux. Not only are they switching to Linux, but they are dropping…
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…
Posted inour digital future
Lots to listen to!
So many great library related things to listen to online! Libraries of the Future From WBEZ (soon to be my public radio station -- woo hoo!) a fabulous discussion about…
Posted inour digital future
Folksonomies: Bringing it all together
TangognaT turned me on to Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Café from Burningbird. It's mega meta-post on folksonomies and the Semantic Web. Technorati tags, controlled vocabulary versus folksonomies, the…
Posted inour 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,…
Posted inlibraries
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…
Posted injob 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,…
Administrative blogs and wikis
During one of my interviews this week, I asked the interviewers what some of their biggest challenges were at their library. One of the challenges they mentioned was keeping all…
