Archive for September, 2004
Marketing Yourself
September 1st, 2004There is an article in the latest issue of the LISJobs newsletter on marketing the librarian:
“Information professionals usually don’t think of marketing themselves as a big issue. We know are the key to accessing information; we are service- and customer-oriented; we know our business - so, customers will just come to us, right? Unfortunately, we [...]
News in Motion
September 1st, 2004I’m not into PDA’s (they never worked for me, not sure why), but I know of a few colleagues who might be interested in News in Motion
“News in Motion delivers user customized news content formatted for BlackBerry, HipTop, PDA, Treo and other hand-held devices. Log-in to the member section of the website, tell us which [...]
A bushel, A Basket…A Wiki, A Blog…
September 1st, 2004The latest issue of Computers in Libraries magazine has an article entitled, “I’ve Gathered a Basket of Communication and Collaboration Tools”, by May Chang. It is not available online, but I hope to get a copy from my public library’s fee-based database as soon as I can. The synopsis:
“There’s a bushel of communication [...]
State of Missouri News in Your Aggregator
September 1st, 2004Ray Matthews (Welcome back, Ray) shows us that the State of Missouri now has 19 RSS Feeds from their various departments that we can read in our aggregators. The Missouri State Library seems to work under the auspices of the Secretary of State, so one would assume (hope) that the library news would be [...]