Jenny Levine of the ShiftedLibrarian library blog has a posting on OCLC’s report called From Awareness to Funding: a study of library support in America:
“You really need to read the whole thing for yourself, but there are some key points I want to highlight here.
1. Most residents don’t understand that their public [...]
Registration for the Internet Librarian 2008 Conference: Beyond 2.0: User-Focused Tools & Practices being held on October 20-22, 2008 in Monterey, CA is now open:
http://www.infotoday.com/il2008/
Usually there are discounts available through OCLC related networks. Hopefully I will get a chance to go this year. I know j went to one a couple of years [...]
I dislike talking about myself on the scratchpad. I don’t want to discuss politics here. I don’t want to use this blog as a campaign tool. But I’d be silly if I don’t mention that I’m running for one of two Director positions on the Special Libraries Association Board of Directors. Learn more
The Consumerist.com blog has a posting called “7 ways your public library can help you during a bad economy”:
1. You can get pretty much any book at the library: A book habit can be expensive. Even second hand books can add up if you read a lot. Even the [...]
Imagine you are a public librarian. Police come to you to ask to see the library’s computers because a missing girl might have used one. Per your library’s policy, you ask them for a warrant. They don’t have one. What would you do? Aid the police in their investigation in case they can quickly find [...]
At the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in New York a few years back, a fellow, who if I recall correctly worked for a news organization in Dallas at the time, who is very tall and African-American graced us with his presence. He says he gets lots of weird looks when he tells people his [...]
Since I was on the panel for the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference session this morning about alternate careers for librarians, I didn’t get a chance to take live notes. Honestly, I’m a little brain dead right now and tired of typing, so I’m going to be brief.
The main theme of the careers of the [...]
I would have blogged Seth Godin’s talk at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference live, like I’ve been doing with a lot of conference sessions, but Harvard’s blog server was down at the time.
Seth opened by explaining that things won’t succeed if people don’t get the message. “When everyone can set type type gets [...]
William Jones, who is one of the fellows behind the project Keeping Found Things Found, is giving an overview of the project and personal information management at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. I remembered writing about the work before and was suprised that it was back in December 2003.
One piece of irony is immediately [...]
In a session about how to use blogs, podcasts, and newsgroups for competitive intelligence, Cynthia Cheng Correia covered the basics of competitive intelligence and how to evaluate and select blogs, podcasts, and newsgroups for competitive intelligence.
With regards to blogs, she shared a cautionary tale about marketing people who set up blogs with the voice of [...]