I attended part of a talk at Simmons College tonight with Janice Lachance, executive director of the Special Libraries Association, and Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Dean Michele Cloonan. I missed Dean Cloonan’s talk and only caught the end of Ms. Lachance’s remarks. I understand that Dean Cloonan related the competencies [...]
The Dowbrigade reminds us that spam solutions aren’t always the fantastic saviors we want them to be. It seems like I also spend twice as much time sorting through my eight or nine or so e-mail accounts (do I have more blogs than e-mail accounts or the other way around?) because of bad spam filters [...]
Feedster has a blog where they’re recording questions users send to their support e-mail address. The questions and answers are logged in this space. A blog can be a great way to share and develop a knowledge base.
During a brief discussion on an e-mail list I’m on, some people working on frequently asked questions lists [...]
Using Jenny’s technical difficulties and my own comment spam problems, which have waned temporarily, Jessamyn writes about the limits of technology and how they can thwart our work:
"As librarians, we need to be able to deliver information. If the technology is keeping us from doing that, we should hope that we’re not so married to [...]
A profile of Wikipedia in The Guardian covers a lot of background about the project, including recent comparisons to other encyclopedias, vandalism, criticism, and efforts to improve the content.
“Pointing out that Wikipedia is still less than four years old and still improving. And, that he is looking at new techniques to improve the quality. … [...]
Simmons College is using blogs to introduce prospective students to college life.