Archive for March, 2005
Feeling De.lirio.us?
March 23rd, 2005Steve Mallett has created De.lirio.us; a social bookmarking, tagging, blogging & notes tool:
“What’s really sweet about this is that you can include a long detailed note with each post in addition to a one line description.”
Very cool! This allows for more content in my bookmarks. Here’s an example of a de.lirio.us version [...]
edifice ref
March 23rd, 2005Beatrice Pulliam, one of the ALA Midwinter PLA Bloggers, has a blog titled edifice ref (cute title):
“I will blog primarily about my frontline experiences in reference, library technology, as well as making libraries more user-friendly (the pesky findability factor”
Subscribed!
Skype @ Your Library
March 23rd, 2005Carol Cooke (along with Sherri Vokey) has come up with a neat way of intergrating Skype in the library:
“Most libraries now have access to the Internet but not all are able to afford a toll free line to help patrons living outside their area code. The free or low fee long distance services [...]
Mark Your Calendars
March 22nd, 2005If you are in the New England Region and want to learn more about social software and how it can be implemented into the library environment, get over to Providence College on May 3rd. The program is titled, Syndicate, Aggregate, Communicate: New Web Tools in Real Applications for Libraries, Companies and Regular Folk:
“2005 opens [...]
Edward Vielmetti Hears From His Library…and he Blogs It
March 22nd, 2005He gets a letter from IT manager from the Ann Arbor District Library:
“Thanks for taking the time to contact us with your suggestion about RSS at the library. We are currently in the process of moving to a new library automation system (Innovative Millennium), and it will launch with a completely new aadl.org website (based [...]
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
March 22nd, 2005I’m going to have to get my hands on this book:
“Is this book sociology, anthropology, or taxonomy? Sorting Things Out, by communications theorists Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, covers a lot of conceptual ground in its effort to sort out exactly how and why we classify and categorize the things and concepts we [...]
Internal Blog for ACRL
March 22nd, 2005Vernica comments:
“ACRL will have blogs for its Virtual National Conference, in conjunction with National Conference in April. Unfortunately, these blogs can only be read by people registered for either the virtual or regular conference, it seems. There is also no indication that there will be a permanent (and unrestricted) ACRL blog after the conference.”
Interesting. [...]
Factiva Adds More RSS? (Updated)
March 22nd, 2005Jessica Baumgart is being teased with some information:
“We’re pleased to announce that in response to requests from many key customers, an RSS Beta is available to all Factiva.com subscribers. This Beta allows users of Factiva.com to subscribe to Editor’s Choice as channels within their own RSS reader of choice.”
I’ll be darned if I can find [...]
E-mail Policy?
March 21st, 2005I’m thinking about issuing an e-mail policy for my weblog. I’ve become increasingly busy over the past few months and find that I have little to no time to answer e-mails that come into my gmail account. I read every e-mail that I get, I just don’t have the time to respond to [...]
Younger Librarians Revisited
March 21st, 2005Cindi Trainor on the younger librarian attendance at CIL:
“It was great to see so many younger librarians at a conference; the landscape was hugely different from the major conferences I’ve attended.”
“The Blog Kids stand out, and are very friendly. That I was “mixing worlds” at this conference prevented me from meeting more of them. (so [...]
CIL Recap Show
March 21st, 2005I’m listening to the CIL recap show from Greg Schwartz [mp3], the king of librarian podcasters. Great intro from Jane Dysart.
Besides a recap, he comes up with some great ideas: Screencasting for libraries. Greg says: “We should enter a space where our users already are.” Ping!!
He says that the people [...]
LITA is a Bloggin’
March 21st, 2005KGS blogs the news: LITA will have a weblog. Hip Hip Hooray. So, which division will be the next to step up to the plate? YALSA? ACRL? RUSA?
In PLA Blog news, we’re just waiting on a few more T’s being crossed and I’s being dotted before I can come out [...]
Blogdigger Group for the Non-Core CIL2005 Bloggers
March 21st, 2005Wheeeeeee! Christina Pikas has created a blogdigger group for the Non-core bloggers from CIL. This just gets more odd and fun by the minute. The next thing you know, keynote speakers will be adding sexual innuendos into their presentations…now back to my tea.
Public Libraries and Social Networks
March 21st, 2005After trying to get a copy of the latest Huraki Murakami book, Preetamrai writes:
“You know something - public libraries should take lead in building social networks. People love to talk about books. What better way to link people then to have them list their favourites, their reading list and then let them find others with [...]
Blake Sums Up CIL 2005
March 20th, 2005Blake Carver has a writeup on CIL:
“Andrea Mercado. Learn that name now, because in the coming years she’ll no doubt be a “Mover & Shaker” or she’ll be the head of something or in charge of some place important. Her work, energy and personality make it inevitable. She’s a mover and shaker in a conviently [...]
IM a Librarian at Davis Library
March 20th, 2005Not only a great service, but an informative FAQ about the IM a Librarian services at Davis Library. I was excited to read this:
“Can I text a librarian from my phone?
Sure! You must have an AOL screen name, a mobile phone that supports text messaging, and a wireless service provider that supports AOL’s two-way [...]
Carolyn Minor Responds
March 20th, 2005Responding to my response to her post, Carolyn blogs
“As industry leaders, I think that ITI has a responsibility not to limit the knowledge that is being made available to people interested in the conference. I guess someone could have gone and formed another blogdigger group and added as many relevant feeds as they [...]
Librarians’ Rx
March 19th, 2005Librarians’ Rx is a great example of a specialty library weblog:
“Welcome to Librarians’ Rx, a blog featuring items of interest to librarians working in Canadian health sciences libraries.”
It’s also a collaborative weblog, maintained by Denise Koufogiannakis and occasionally contributed by a bunch of health science librarians. Nice. (link via del.icio.us)
Hidden Peanuts
March 19th, 2005I just realized that Chad was using the events structued blogging plugin for Wordpress while he was blogging at CIL this week. Suweeeeeeeeeet!! Maybe we can try to implement structured blogging into our blogging experience at Internet Librarian.
A Few Final Thoughts
March 19th, 2005I’m leaving today after a whirlwind week here in DC at CIL. Here are some final thoughts:
+ There was definitely an age thing going on this week. I noticed that there were more younger folk at CIL than ever before (the older librarians were always reminded us younglings of our ages) and would [...]
The Future of Categorization?
March 18th, 2005I take a lot of heat for my “e-mail is dead” comments, but there is another theme that has been pervasive in my thinking these past few days that many librarians may not agree with. Today, after watching the speciality search engines presentations at CIL, which included a presntation by the CEO of Vivisimo, [...]
I’m Exhausted
March 18th, 2005Our track yesterday on Collaboration and Communities was a big hit. Here’s the run down (no photo’s - my camera ran out of batteries - I’ll post those later).
K. Matthew Dames rocked as the first speaker, discussing Social Software 101. (Presentation link [PDF])
- He doesn’t like the terms social software, he likes “digital collaboration”
- [...]
Bruuuuuuuuuce
March 18th, 2005Some notes from yesterday:
Bruce James from the GPO is the keynote for the morning. A few neat facts:
+ In 1994, they charged for access of the CR via the web, a year later, they changed their minds.
+ He had to turn a 19th century institution and “turn it to the right.”
+ The GPO is [...]
What is a “Core Blogger?”
March 18th, 2005CMinor writes:
“I would never have known about CIL if it hadn’t been for reading blogs. Even if it had crossed my radar, it wouldn’t have registered because I had no personal connection to it. Granted, I have no personal connections to any of the bloggers I read, but at least they have individual personalities [...]
Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District’s Got Feeds
March 17th, 2005Hip Hip Hooray!! Yet another library in Illinois is using RSS feeds to get information out to their patrons. I’m sitting at the hotel lobby with Mark Swenson from the Winnetka-Northfield Library District who is showing me his neat RSS feeds. He’s got 7 of ‘em going:
+ Library News
+ Adult Book Clubs
+ [...]
Drug Policy Alliance RSS Feeds
March 17th, 2005The Drug Policy Alliance now has an RSS Feed. What they did right? An explanation of what RSS is. Remember to do this in your library. Very important.
Advice for a Librarian
March 17th, 2005Meredith blogs:
“I’m going to be doing a presentation on information literacy in a few weeks, and I’m planning on looking at how new technologies can be used in information literacy instruction. I was thinking of looking at screencasting/flash tutorials (using camtasia, captivate, etc.), podcasting, wikis, blogging, rss, social bookmarking (del.icio.us, FURL, etc.), or anything else [...]
Tags Turning Web Chaos into Categories
March 17th, 2005An interesting article today from eWEEK titled,”Tags Turning Web Chaos into Categories“:
“Tags are creating more than straightforward classifications of Web documents or links, said Joshua Schachter, the creator of del.icio.us. One of the most popular tags created on the bookmarking service is ‘to_read,’ a tag attached to links of pages users want to remember to [...]
Of almost 9 million blogs, 5 million are “active”
March 16th, 2005Bob Wyman mentions that PubSub is now monitoring 9 millions blogs (5 million of which are active). How exciting! So, what happens when we reach 10 million?
Obvious disclaimer: I work for PubSub.
Technology for the Information Commons in a Special Library
March 16th, 2005Technology for the Information Commons in a Special Library
Nancy Liu and Nancy Allmang from NIST
Physical place for gathering and sharing new technologies (SC: I wonder if they wil ltalk about wikis)
+ Mass media is underming the right of the people to share information.
+ Free IM reference service.
+ 2003 - Pilot wireless laptop loan program.
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