I got to listen to a presentation Meredith Farkas gave Wednesday via the Special Libraries Association about Web 2.0 technologies in libraries. She’s incredibly knowledgeable, as you may know. I had the opportunity to attend a few of her presentations this past fall because of Wikimania and Internet Librarian.
I really liked her definition of XML […]
A solo librarian colleague pointed out this column from the business magazine Inc about corporate gifts. It provides alternate holiday gift suggestions that are more meaningful that stereotypical corporate schwag. Among the suggestions: a good restaurant or two near the office, windows for everyone, excellent technical people, and:
"A librarian. Yes, I know, much of what […]
I dedicate this blog post to my buddy v, who finds this kinds of stories bland. ; )
After 47 years, a man finally returns a copy of the Prince of Egypt.
Addendum 1/9: Um, one of my silly fears about articles like this one is that people will think that keeping material out of the […]
In a post James pointed me to, not only does Krow share some useful insights about Delicious Monster and LibraryThing–two products to help people catalog their book collections–but he discusses the need for a database relating UPC codes to ISBNs to bibliographic information people undertaking such projects can use. It seems like something like this […]
"This is the time of year when students and faculty are especially enthusiastic about the academic year to come. As one of the many library science schools around the globe, Harvard University plays an important role in the educational achievement of future information professionals,"
begins a letter addressed to me. The letter encourages me to get […]
Garrett’s Library News and Notes from a few weeks ago includes the Best Free Reference Sites of 2006, as gathered by the American Library Association’s Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). Some links, like Web MD and Merriam-Webster, are sites people might expect to be on the list. There are several that are new to […]
Tuesday’s NPR’s Talk of the Nation had Don Tapscott, co-author of Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything to talk about wikis, MySpace and about NPR’s new program, Rough Cuts, which allows
audience collaboration.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6711038
Rough Cuts with Michel Martin
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6663918
link via Travelin’ Librarian:
http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/index.html
Michael Sauers wrote a book called Blogging and RSS: a librarian’s guide.
I keep an eye out for what university communications offices are doing with weblogs. A colleague pointed me to The Tiger Beat, Rochester Institute of Technology’s news office’s weblog that gives a behind-the-scenes look at their operations.
At the urging of several friends who wanted me to try the latest cool tool, I set up Google Calendar yesterday. True to my ability to break just about anything, I think I found the first bug in fewer than five minutes. I’ve been using Yahoo! Calendar for years and have been fairly happy with […]
Kim sent me this BBC article about One Laptop per Child’s plans to release their laptops for needy children in developing countries as early as this summer. sj brought one to Berkman a few weeks ago–maybe it’s even the green one in the photo the BBC uses. I keep meaning to process the photos and […]