Library Stuff

Two interesting articles (at a quick glance) from the latest issue of AALL Spectrum:

+ Bringing Amazon.com to the OPAC – One library’s mission to enrich its catalog and improve search capabilities- by Patricia R. Monk

+ Mining Information Gold in the Blogosphere – How to use Weblogs as reliable research tools – by Paul J. Moorman

Huminity:

“Huminity is an instant messaging chat software that combines in it full social networking capabilities. It can be installed on any Windows running PC. After installing Huminity and creating a personal contact-tree, Huminity becomes your 6-degree chat software. You can navigate your global map of personal connections, have private chats and chat in chat rooms.

The contact-tree displays a person’s social map (when the person is centered in the center). Navigating the map of connections is simple and intuitive. Clicking on a contact or a user twice will move them to the center of the map and create their web of connections around them. In this way, you can navigate from one person to the other and explore the magnificent uniqueness of people – social ties.”

Oooooooooooh. I must try this out. Here’s an idea. How about we try to get any librarians who are attending Internet Librarian to use it, and we can all communicate while in the different sessions? Question: Do all the rooms have wi-fi?

I’m going to download this tonight and play with it. If anyone wants to play along, give me a buzz (AOL IM – NYlibrarian). Also, imagine how useful this would be in a corporate environment.

Gary just IM’d me with great news. The U.S. State Department now has RSS Feeds. Four of ‘em. Very cool.

+ Highlights
+ Briefings
+ Press Releases
+ Secretary Powell Remarks

Is anyone interested in having their own Delicious Library, complete with barcode scanner? I would put this on my “Please Barbie [wife], I HAVE to have this” list, but it is only available for the Mac. Still, that scanner would look great next to my book collection (which at the moment is scattered about the house) or attached to my laptop when doing inventory. Very cool.

Last night, I released Feedster Hacks to the public. So, for those keeping score at home, here’s a rundown of the online projects that I currently run/contribute to:

+ Library Stuff
+ Resourceshelf
+ Docuticker
+ Feedster Hacks
+ LIS Blogsource

Bill Cosby once said: “My wife and I have 5 children and the reason we have 5 children is because we do not want 6″. I feel the same way about weblogs. Enjoy Feedster Hacks.