I would like to say a big "thank you" to all the folks who came to the Wikis in Action session this morning. I thoroughly enjoyed talking with you about wikis. You'll find my presentation slides at the link below. Wikis In Action: A Wiki as a Research Guide If anyone would like to continue... Continue Reading →
CIL: Creative Visibility: Toolbars and Game Nights
Scott Rice, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Giz Womack, Wake Forest University --------------------------- Scott FYI---I went to library school with Scott. Scott created a Firefox toolbar for his library. He had orginally worked with bookmarklets. User has to find bookmarklets and tweak them. Not very user friendly. Toolbar good for distance education have links... Continue Reading →
CIL:Weblogs as Customer Communication and Collaboration Tools
Susan Fingerman, Johns Hopkins University Christina K. Pikas, Johns Hopkins University Susan Klopper, Goizueta Business Library, Emory University Clara Hudson, University of Scranton --------------------------- Christina K. Pikas Christina talks about what ehy have done with blogs at APL. Process Current Blog Internal Blog Environment at APL: Very centralized IT management, no library servers, no lab-wide... Continue Reading →
CIL: Wikis in Action
Binghampton and Stony Brook are both using blogs for internal communication. Both discussed how a wiki can be used to facilitate internal communicaiton. Both groups mentioned the need for getting staff buyin, as well as the need for having a supportive systems staff. Binghampton talked a good deal about their training model for their staff... Continue Reading →
Computers in Libraries 2006
It's 10:00, and I'm in my hotel room. I'm exhausted, as it was a very full day. Wireless access for bloggers at the conference was not working quite right, so I took notes in NoteTab Light. The posts that follow are the notes that I took. I'm a little too fatigued at the moment to... Continue Reading →
The world is becoming flat
In his keynote address on Monday at the ODCE conference, John Seely Brown discussed the idea that the world is becoming flat. Our world is no longer as divided by borders, time, or space as it once was, largely as a result of the technologies that we are using today. We have the ability to... Continue Reading →
Vendors are people too
In a recent post, Bill Drew tells booksellers, "Don't call us, we will call you if we want your publications." When I first read the post, I agreed wholeheartedly with Bill. However, after a little more reflection, I realized I had a slightly different view of book sellers and vendors. Most days, I happen to... Continue Reading →
Librarians and IM Survey
Michael is conducting a survey of librarians and IM. It took me all of two minutes to complete, so if you use IM (or not) for personal, professional, or reference purposes, take a couple of minutes to fill out the survey. He's "interested to see how many librarians are using IM at their... Continue Reading →
Marketing Virtual Reference
This is one way to get students to use your IM/Chat reference service. From the University of Mississippi Libraries: Chat with a Librarian and Win an iPod Shuffle! During the month of February every student or faculty/staff member who chats with a librarian will automatically be entered to win an iPod Shuffle. You don't have... Continue Reading →