The NMRLS Regional Systems Librarians group is hold their quarterly meeting at the Tyngsborough Public on Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 10 am:
“Come join us at Tyngsborough Public Library, as our host and Tyngsborough’s Director, Randy Robertshaw dishes and demos two innovative systems he is using at his library.
Randy will discuss his use of Joomla […]
David Lee King, digital branch & services manager, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library gave a talk called Managers listen up!:
why social networking and Web 2.0 is important for your library:
Some people think change means: fresh breeze at beach or screaming at the laptop
why pay attention to change
There are best practices to handle change
Why […]
Instead of doing lots of little posts about upcoming conferences, I’m going to be slack and do a list in one post. I can’t remember for certain if I’ve written about these before in this space, so forgive me if I’m repeating myself.
MacCamp Boston, Saturday, May 10: A free forum dealing with Mac issues at […]
Rachel Singer Gordon and Jessamyn West wrote in their April Tech Tips For Every Librarian column for Computers In Libraries Magazine of getting rid of the Print icon in Internet Explorer and Firefox and replacing it with a Print Preview icon:
“It’s a familiar story: A patron hits “Print”–often repeatedly–while viewing an 80-page document of which […]
The Open Source Mac blog has a listing of free open source program for Mac OS X
http://www.opensourcemac.org/
Link via What I Learned Today library blog:
http://www.web2learning.net/
Pardon me while I engage in some knowledge management on this weblog.
It seems like each time my PowerBook crashes in the midst of updating software through the program Software Update, it hangs in the boot process when it tries to load the Login Window. (If you watch Macs boot, you probably know to which part […]
My favorite librarian sent me a translation of an interview of Umberto Eco in the Frankfurter Rundschau about technology and libraries. He thinks of the Internet and computers as ways of complementing our memories and uses a large portable drive onto which he downloaded many digitized books as an example. He discusses the challenges of […]
The Boston Globe recently printed 84,000 people ordered XOs from One Laptop Per Child’s. While many people are enjoying their new XOs, focus has shifted to a few thousand people who received e-mails indicating their orders might be fulfilled after 45-60 days. For some people, that’s too long to wait and they’ve canceled their orders. […]
When people learn the name of my employer, the next set of questions almost always has to do with what it is Renesys does. A few days ago, two major telecommunications cables in the Middle East broke, impeding Internet access and phone calls. Two of my coworkers have been talking to lots of folks in […]
The WPCandy website has some help sheets available including for advanced users:
http://wpcandy.com/wp-content/uploads/Advanced-WordPress-Help-Sheet.pdf
Link via What I Learned Today:
http://www.web2learning.net/
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