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 […]
RSS4LIB had the following posting about May 1 RSS Awareness Day:
“Thursday, 1 May 2008, is RSS Awareness Day. There’s a grassroots effort to increase the awareness and use of RSS (and syndication tools in general). On the RSS Awareness Day site, it is claimed that “Feedburner recently reported that they track around 60 million RSS […]
Garrett included a piece in his Library News & Notes about visualization tools for a variety of applications. If you like to look at things like graphical maps of your social network or your friends’ music collections, you might enjoy some of the tools in this article.
The Specky Boy blog has posted a listing of 63 essential WordPress hacks, tutorials, help files and cheats:
http://tinyurl.com/3ctcuy
Link via iLibrarian blog:
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/
Also the WordPress blog has a sneak preview of version 2.5:
http://tinyurl.com/35dh54
Link via the What I Learned Today blog:
http://www.web2learning.net/
Posted by Rich
As always, Garrett has an amazing wealth of stuff in his weekly Library News & Notes. I couldn’t find a permalink for this week’s edition, though.
Here are some of the highlights. I myself don’t know where to begin reading.
Credible Web? It’s where we click most: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0319/p17s01-stct.html
Dusting Off the Archive for the Web: […]
Tonight’s All Things Considered on National Public Radio featured a discussion of sites that combine books and social networking. Of course, Tim Spalding of LibraryThing was part of that. Also mentioned were: Goodreads, BookJetty, Shelfari, and aNobii. Authors, not just readers, are involved in some of the sites.
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 hot news from SXSWi (South by Soutwest interactive), a tech conference in Austin, Texas, is how a journalist put herself into the interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg instead of simply interviewing him from a distance, as planned.
CNet reporter Daniel Terdiman writes:
"The reality is, I thought the substance of her interview was pretty strong. […]
The March issue of Information Today features Facebook 101: Ten Things You Need to Know About Facebook. As the title suggests, the article goes through ten items, like how many people are on Facebook, privacy, why and how to use Facebook, and what advertisers and businesses are doing there.
Facebook is a really popular, robust, […]
Tonight (2/27), Boston University’s Free Culture hosts Pandora founder Tim Westergren at 7 p. Pandora is a nifty music Web site that customizes what its users listen to based on their likes. Quite a few folks I know use it regularly and have elbowed me about using it.
The details:
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - […]