Photo’s From Calgary
I’ve posted a few shots from CLA to my Photo Blog (not updated often, but just a place for pictures). This is one of my favorite shots of all time. Is she not the cutest human on earth?
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Archive | June, 2005
CLA Blog and Wiki
Now that I’m leaving in a few hours for NY, I see that there was a blog for CLA. I also see that there was an Unofficial Wiki as well. I hope that they can market this more next years conference in Ottawa (which I will hopefully attend).
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Tag – You’re It
My presentation on tagging can be accessed at this url:
http://tagyoureitcla.blogspot.com/
The presentation doesn’t say much (just a bunch of ideas). You kinda had to be there…
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RSS at SPL
Not easy to find, but Jenny has the scoop on the feeds available at the Seattle Public Library. Maybe they can learn a few things about marketing from Hennepin County Library…
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Power to the People: Do it Yourself Content Distribution
From an an article in EContent:
“In his breakthrough book Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel, head of the Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, documents the impact of user input on product innovation. From extreme-sports equipment to library information systems, users are consistently ahead of the curve, von Hippel observes. Indeed, some 80% of the novel products he and his colleagues have studied over the last several years were prototyped by users first. ‘Open-source projects are object lessons that teach us that individuals can develop, produce, diffuse, maintain, and update products for themselves in the context of user communities,’ von Hippel says.”
Emphasis mine. I was chatting with a colleague this week about library catalogs and we both agreed that the OPAC should not be a one way street. Not only should librarians provide content via the OPAC, but users should be involved as well in making their experiences more pleasant and worthwhile. The OPAC should not just be about providing access to library materials…
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Blogging at CLA
The Country Librarian was at our RSS/Blogging session today and took some notes.
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Government of Canada – Hurricane Feeds
I was preparing for my presentation this afternoon and came across two new (well, new to me) feeds from the Canadian Government:
+ Canadian Hurricane Watches / Warnings Bulletins
+ Canadian Hurricane Information Statements
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