Posted in Library 2.0, Links, Service, Solutions, Tech, Web 2.0 on Saturday, November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
iLibrarian has made three winderful pages of Firefox add-ons that are useful for librarians. I learned more than I anticipated. (Did you know there are 250 downloadable Firefox themes?) Part three isn’t perhaps as diverse as one and two, but all are worth a look.
40 Useful Firefox Add-ons for Librarians Part 1, Part 2 and [...]
Posted in Blogging, Library 2.0, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
This October, the ranking of top 10 social networking or blogging sites in the U.S. looks like this:
1. MySpace
2. Facebook
3. Classmates Online
4. Windows Live Spaces
5. AOL Hometwon
6. Reunion.com
7. LinkedIn
8. AOL People Connection
9. Club Penguin
10. Buzznet
I’ve only ever heard of 1, 2, and 7; my husband thinks 9 is for kids. Are we hermits or what!? [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Academic, Library 2.0, Studies, Tech, Usability, Web 2.0 on Monday, July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
(I’m obviously going through my aggregator tonight.)
I found these through Library 2.0 – An academic’s perspective:
At The College of New Jersey, the modern languages librarian has added a tag cloud with links to pertinent links at del.icio.us to the library’s Italian Studies resources page. In addition, some of the del.icio.us bookmarks have been inserted on [...]
Posted in Library 2.0, Museums, Searching, Usability, Web 2.0 on Monday, July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
A few interesting things found via What I Learned Today:
Laura Cohen wrote A Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto with several good practices on keeping with the times regardless of the type of library you’re in.
The WikiMindMap lets you browse Wikipedia graphically. Clicking links on the image takes you to the article in question. Nice for the folks [...]
Posted in Images, Library 2.0, Reading on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 | No Comments »
The Illinois State University, Milner Library has created and uploaded to Flickr a series of interesting READ Posters. In addition to this great variety, make sure to look at their other sets of photos. Seems like a very active library!
Posted in Academic, Library 2.0 on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 | No Comments »
The Ubiquitous Librarian writes about how they’re using FaceBook at the Georgia Tech to connect to the incoming freshmen class. Students have responded favorably to (what might be seen as) an authority figure posting on the Georgia Tech Class of 2011 message board.
I’m not using FaceBook (yet - I might take the leap soon), but [...]
Posted in Humor, Library 2.0 on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Allen County Public Library has posted a series of videos on YouTube:
iACPL 2.0
iACPL 3.0
iACPL 4.0
Great videos. More power to them!
Posted in Conferences, Library 2.0, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Note to self: remember to check out the Social Software Showcase presentations [wiki].
“The Social Software Showcase is an online unconference occuring around and during the time of ALA Annual 2007.”
Posted in Humor, Library 2.0 on Monday, June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I appreciate the humor, and the issues are quite real in Andrew Finegan’s Vision of Library 2010 [video].
