Looks like I’m not the only one excited about Internet Librarian this year. The wiki is up, the program is up and I’m ready to head to California.
This is the first year I’ll be presenting - and I get to sit on a panel with well known wiki users like Meredith Farkas and Chad [...]

In honor of my 350th post I’d like to present to you the Carnival of the Infosciences #39. That’s right - I haven’t been quiet all week because I’ve had nothing to say - I just wanted to save this special post milestone for a special post.
This week’s carnival is all over the board [...]

This week’s carnival will be up at Library Garden - and next week it will be returning to What I Learned Today…
Submissions for posts from this week are due to me (nengard at gmail dot com) by Sunday May 28 at 6pm EST. Please put the word Carnival in your subject line! Submission Guidelines can [...]

At our library we’re trying to redesign our member database so that we can easily set the site up for e-commerce. We did a little research a while ago on which services to us and we found that PayPal would cost us the least in the long run - now there’s a handy tool [...]

Dave Hook at The Industrial Librarian has pointed me to an interesting looking site. LibrarySupportStaff.com offers resources for people working in libraries. The site could use some help from a web designer - but there are a lot of useful resources listed on this site.

I just read about this nifty sounding tool on blogdriverswaltz.com.
The Amazon Media Manager lets you add items from Amazon’s catalogue to your wordpress blog. It keeps a list of things you’ve added, too, so you can choose what to display, how to display it and more!
I hope to find a little time to add [...]

From OPAL-Online:
Thursday, June 15, 2006: Alliance Library System Online Innovation Institute Library 2.0 Extravaganza!
Speaker: Michael Stephens, Writer/Trainer/Teacher/Creator of the Tame the Web Blog
This special event is sponsored by the Alliance Online Innovation Institute.

Cost: Free for all Alliance Library System members; $25.00 for all other registrants. When you sign up you will be given the [...]

Yep, I’m almost finished with my second read through of this book (The NextGen Librarian’s Survival Guide). I have terrible reading comprehension skills, so I like to reread books a couple of times.
Anyway, the first time I read through the book and the second time I read through with a pencil and highlighter - [...]

I got this email from Amazon just minutes ago:
Your Shopping List is a new feature we’ve added to make it easier to locate and keep track of items you are considering as well as items you purchase routinely–products such as shampoo, vitamins, skin care, and tea. Because you’ve bought these types of products in the [...]

The newest Carnival is up at InfoSciPhi. Check it out.

I am right now attending my very first meeting in the Library 2.0 in Second Life. It’s a meeting about what we want the library to be and how we can make it that.
The discussion started with the wish for us to be able to co-browse in SL so that we can show people [...]

My Second Life Avatar
Originally uploaded by talia679.
I finally signed up for Second Life. I wanted to check out the Library 2.0 in the game. It was really amazing!
I was part of the beta testing for Second Life when the game first came out - after the beta was [...]

I just read about Kebberfegg on SEW. It’s a neat little tool for generating RSS feeds:
Kebberfegg is a tool to help you generate large sets of keyword-based RSS feeds at one time. Keyword-based RSS feeds (some people call them “search based feeds”) are those RSS feeds generated as a result of doing a search [...]

Over at Lifehacker they have a tip on how to batch rename files in Windows. I have always (well for a long time) used a little freebie tool called Rname-It. It lets you find and replace characters in a batch of filenames or lets you simply rename a batch of files. It’s great if [...]

Gwen Friedman (my buddy) has a new blog - it looks like it covers mostly legal resources (she is a law librarian after all) but there is other info there too. The blog is titled FMI - For My Information. Check it out.

I have no idea how to make this post anything but personal - but I’ll try.
Looking for a fun RSS feed to subscribe to? Try the Daily Puppy - and while you’re at it check out my little angel - she’s today’s Daily Puppy.
Hey I did a good job with that hehe

Meredith has posted her interview with Casey Bisson over at Information Wants To Be Free. Read it! And read the comments, there’s a great discussion going on.

I’m finally reading this report - and I have to admit at first I thought it would be a dry research type paper - but it’s good! I have actually found my self laughing out loud - not necessarily because it’s funny - but because I’ve been saying some of the same things and so [...]

This is something I always wondered about. We have what we call the “reference file” here in our library. In this database are tips on how to find answers to commonly asked questions - but not necessarily the answers. Michael Casey has a very interesting post over at LibraryCrunch about this topic:
Librarians are, [...]

Yippee - my Intranet fits right into these 10 words to describe a successful intranet - does yours?

Dave Hook at The Industrial Librarian is hosting this week’s carnival - check it out - he mentions me

This was posted on our Intranet by our head of Technical Services:
This year during the ILUG @ AALL (July 2006). There will be discussion on the State of the Innovative System. I would like to get your thoughts and present them during this discussion. Things that will be discussed are:
How has Millennium worked in your [...]

I know I’m late with this - but the next carnival is up at blogwithoutalibrary.net. Enjoy!

Cover from Official Site
It’s finally here! After talking up our Intranet here on my site (here, here, here, and here) and whenever I talked to people in person, the article is finally here.
My assistant (RayAna Park) and I were lucky enough to get the cover of this month’s issue of ONLINE Magazine and we’re [...]

Okay, this is not a complete review because I’m only on page 70 out of almost 200, but I wanted to let you all know that I have started my copy of The NextGen Librarian’s Survival Guide and I’m loving it!
Having worked in a library for 5 years (as of next month) some of this [...]