Cuddly Dalek – who’d thunk
Posted in Humor, Tv / Video on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Get instructions on how to make a cuddly knitted Dalek for the Dr. Who fan in your life from the Extermiknit! page.
Via LibarianInBlack.
Archive for September, 2007
Term of the day: “stealth information fluency”
Posted in Library 2.0, Reading, Reference, Service, Word soup on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
What James Rettig means with stealth information fluency is, roughly, informing library users (or students, in his words) about the library resources and catalog in addition to trustworthy resources online (presumably non-library ones) by using modern interactive tools and library systems.
What he’s basically advocating is user instruction that takes into account the changing times (new [...]
Another visual search engine
Posted in Clever, Searching on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Via lo-fi librarian:
oSkope provides an interesting version of a visual search engine. I like how your results are displayed; a highly personal matter, I’m sure. I also agree with lo-fi librarian: it would be useful to be able to search more than one site at once.
But why, oh why, does the Amazon search engine suck [...]
First line of service
Posted in Career, People, Reference, Service, Studies on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Stephen Abram quotes data from New Paradigm (via YPulse) about what the NextGens want.
By this definition, I fall somewhere between Stephen and the Next Gens. (By another I’ve seen, I’m definitely Gen Y.) Whatever the case, I certainly find a lot of the Next Gen ideas appealing.
Stephen says (italicized comments are his):
They want to be [...]
Librarian blogger survey results
Posted in Blogging, Eh? on Friday, September 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Found via LibrarianInBlack:
The results of Meredith Farkas’s 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogoshpere: Demographics are out. I encourage you to read her comments. What struck me was that there were two questions out of 11 that a significant number of respondents skipped. These asked about any other advanced degrees the respondents had (question 6) and the [...]
After wrapping up my summer studies, visiting relatives in Europe, hosting relatives in NYC, and starting a part-time library job (yay!), I’m back in school. Well, technically school starts next week for me, but other classes have been meeting for almost two weeks. I will also start my internship next week. It’s going to be [...]
