My presentation from the NFAIS meeting yesterday is now available for download.

The Collaborative Information Workspace [slides, blog screencast, wiki screencast, to-do list screencast]
NFAIS - User-Generated Content and Social Media, Philadelphia, PA, June 29, 2007.

I want to preface this by saying I will probably never ever need to use this tool - but it was really awesome sounding so I wanted to share it with you all!
Hilary Spencer from Nature came to talk at the NFAIS meeting about Nature Precedings and Nature Network.
Nature Precedings allows scientists to post pre [...]

The next session I attended at the NFAIS meeting was on blogging. It started with Steven Bell who talked about the four different types of blogs he writes for and how he managed blogging for four blogs.
The newest of Steven’s blogs is called Designing Better Libraries. It was started as a [...]

Yesterday I attended and presented at a meeting for NFAIS members. The first presentation was done by Michael Mahoney of Nerac. Michael talked about the current status of blogs, wikis and podcasts at his organization. While most of what he went over was nothing new to me, I did get some good [...]

Thingology : Libraries as Conversations: Gorman, Hives and Catalogs

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Cliff writes and interesting post about our online identities. The short summary is this - he posted a video for his staff use. He then deleted the account that held the video, only to find out that his video was cited in a paper.
I’ve come across this issue before. I’ve wanted to [...]

The latest Unshelved is just too funny not to share. Using the MAC/PC commercial theme - it starts with “Hi I’m the Internet” .. “And I’m a library”. Go check it out for the rest.

I want to: Free Ways to Track All Your Passwords
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Digital Curation BlogBlog inspired by the Digital Curation Centre to discuss issues relating to the curation and long term preservation of digital science and research data.
LingvoSoft OnlineThe Largest Collection of Free Online Translation Services Anywhere
NewspaperindexThe best online newspapers all countries - All newspapers [...]

20 Ways to Use LinkedIn Productively

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On Friday my husband and I did a quick walk through of the public library in Princeton . I want to share some quotes.

When we walked in the door: “This is a library?”

As we browsed around a floor with computers everywhere: “This is your kind of library, isn’t it?”

As we left the library: “That library [...]

Via RSS Compendium Blog:
Penguin, the UK book publisher, has published a page containing its RSS feeds
This is very neat - mostly because when I lived in England they had a promotion going on. 1 pound classics. Penguin classics all cost £1 (approx $1.55 when I was there). I came home with so [...]

Disclaimers:

I’m a new cataloger
I haven’t kept up with RDA

Now to the meat.
Karen Schneider has an interesting post at the Techsource blog. Karen says:
…the next time you complain about the limitations of library data"”the gazillions of records we have created about the physical items in our libraries"”and wonder why none of the cool [...]

Hopefully this will make Open Source a more viable option for libraries who have been holding off:
PALINET is aware that not all of our members have the technical support or skills necessary to install or test the open source applications that are currently available. We're looking at a number of ways to address this issue, [...]

Alerts and RSS FeedsRSS feeds from vendor databases.

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I was just handed an article in today’s Wall Street Journal titled “A Job Interview You Don’t Have to Show Up For.” Apparently some big companies are experimenting with holding interviews in Second Life!! Personally, I think it’s a bit silly - but I guess I can see the merits if the job [...]

Social Software Showcase

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The Reflective Librarian: Google Book Search vs Live Search Books
DLIST - Structure and form of folksonomy tags: The road to the public library catalogueFolksonomies have the potential to add much value to public library catalogues by enabling clients to: store, maintain, and organize items of interest in the catalogue using their own tags. The purpose [...]

Awesome! Alice posts about WorldCat Lists.
Lists are a way for you to group library-owned items you have found while using WorldCat. Lists let you keep track of items of interest and refer back to them whenever you want to. You can share your lists with friends and colleagues, too.

Here are some existing lists. I [...]

Sirsi is having a webinar in July with a focus on publishing for library professionals.  I’ve been very pleased with previous SirsiDynix Institutes, so if you’re interested in learning about publishing for your profession, make the time to attend.
Writing for the Library Profession
Date : Jul 10, 2007
Start Time : 11 a.m. Eastern
Length : 01:00:00
Do you [...]

Chris points us to a survey to help decide if there will be a print version of RDA.
I find that while I have access to Cataloger’s Desktop, I still rely heavily on the print versions of my cataloging guides. It’s just easier to flip through the pages than it is to find what I’m [...]

Main Page - Digital Native"Digital Natives" are those people for whom the internet and related technologies are givens, whereas "Digital Immigrants" migrated to these technologies later in life
Library Technical Services: Acquisitions, Cataloging, ClassificationResources for Technical Services Librarians.

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Genre/Form Authority Records
Relevance ranking of results from MARC-based catalogues: from guidelines to implementation exploiting structured metadata

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To quote Richard Wallis from Talis - “Take yourself to this video of a presentation at the 2007 TED Conference. Don’t argue just take a look!”
WOW! At first it’s just neat … and then it’s gets neater … and then … WOW!!!
Favorite quote (with some editing out of ums):
What the point here really is [...]

9 Great Ways to Make Mind Maps and Flow Charts Online - Rev2.orgHere are 9 great mind mapping and flow chart tools
Three Hard Things - 6/15/2007 - Library JournalHere are three things that may not be easy but are nonetheless important to your professional development.
Standing up for Open source, Lee David Jaffe, Greg Careaga

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There is an awesome article in Library Philosophy and Practice 2007 by Lee David Jaffe and Greg Careaga entitled Standing up for Open Source.
While the article does talk about the fact that Open Source Software (OSS) is not used in all areas of libraries, there is an focus on the ILS.
More than three decades after [...]