The RSS and JavaScript Cookbook Meredith Farkas and Paul Pival paulandmeredith.pbwiki.com Paul says every single tool they will show us will be usable by librarians. Using the traditional subject page as an example of how to generate dynamic content Most subject guides are not often updated Not easy to add content if you don't know... Continue Reading →
Internet Librarian–MySpace & Facebook
MySpace and FacebookMySpace is not the best website ever. It can be hard to use, it can give a bad user experience. Nevertheless, people still use it because of the social experience. Aaron got a teenager to update the Thomas Ford MySpace page.------------Cliff LandisWhat is the nature of the beast?Profiles as Identity Performance-Dynamic and Static-user... Continue Reading →
Internet Librarian–Keynote Day 3
Shari Thurow Web Presence for Internet Librarians Shari is the Webmaster/Marketing directory at Grantastic Designs She says she loves librarians. She's working on a PHD in Library Science She says that librarians will be the heroes of the web Goals of this presentation: Define a search engine friendly web site design Search engine optimization essentials... Continue Reading →
Internet Librarian–Podcasting and Video blogging
Podcasting and videocasting Greg gives an overview of podcasting Podcasting is not slapping mp3 files on the web. To be a podcast, there has to be an RSS feed. Podcasting is not a one-time deal. You have to keep putting content out there for your users to get new content. Podcasting takes... Continue Reading →
Internet Librarian–Second Life Library 2.0
Second Life Library 2.0 Lori Bell, Michael Sauers, and Tom Peters Begin the session by showing a 3 minute video tour of Info Island available on Youtube--search for SL Library SL Library is truly a collaborative effort every continent is represented except for Antartica and Africa currently over a million residents in SL It's really... Continue Reading →
Internet Librarian–Web-Based Experience Planning
The Basics of Web-Based Experience Planning David King Digital Branch and Services Manager Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Examples of bad experiences Goal is to introduce experience planning User Experience Design Jessee James Garrett--The Elements of User Experience 5 elements 1. Strategy 2. Scope 3. Structure 4. Skeleton 5. ... Continue Reading →
Internet Librarian–Cultivating Tech-Saavy Staff
Cultivating Tech-Saavy Library StaffSarah Houghton-JanDavid KingSarah Houghton-JanSan Mateo County LibraryLibrarianInBlack.netTechnology Competencies: A path to trainingtech competencies are a list of things that staff should know in order to do their jobsYou don't need competencies if:-every staff member is an expert in every technology you are currently using- or if staff are willing to self-educateYou do... Continue Reading →
Internet Librarian–Public Library 2.0
Public Library 2.0: Emerging Technologies and Changing Roles Michael Stephens Jenny Levine This is the first session of the public libraries track. Even though it's for public libraries, there are a lot of academic librarians in the room. Public libraries are doing some really cool things that can serve as a model for academic libraries.... Continue Reading →
Top 100 video games ever
IGN has just released the top 100 video games of all time. The list is available here. IGN's methods for selecting those games are as follows: Our criteria for creating this list of your picks for the Top 100 Games of All Time are as follows: All games had to receive at least 1,000 reader... Continue Reading →