5 new blogs you say? Well I don’t know much about what’s new out there, but I can point you to 5 new(ish) to me blogs. Cataloging FuturesYes, I’ve mentioned it before, but there are so few cataloging blogs out there that it deserves mentioning again Discovery XQueryWhile Matt doesn’t post very often, his posts [...]
I was having a chat with Chris Schwartz the other day about which technologies we should be looking at for our library. She asked me if I thought we needed to pay attention to Second Life – if this was really where our students were. I don’t know the answer to this without asking the [...]
I have updated my Publications & Presentations page to include some upcoming items: Pending: "How to Start Your Own Blog," and "The Quickie Wiki," In Librarians Beyond the Circ Desk: Innovative Librarianship Today. McFarland Publishers, Inc. Jefferson, NC. Expected 2008. Out Front With Stephen Abram: A Guide For Information Leaders (Book Review) Journal of Web [...]
Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples by Walt CrawfordThe purpose of this book is to guide you to blogs that you might find useful when thinking about your own library?s case?blogs from nearby libraries, blogs from libraries with similar service populations, or blogs that specialize in topics or work in ccLearnccLearn is a division of Creative [...]
I didn’t get a chance to do a thorough testing of Bloglines Beta yet, but there is a detailed post over at Read/Write Web that you might be interested in. I’ll continue to test it out, but for now: Bloglines has me back as a fan! Technorati Tags: bloglines beta, bloglines
Straight from my inbox: SHAKE UP YOUR THINKING WITH THE PHILADELPHIA SLA'S TECH-TOPICS SERIES The TechTopics Series will be comprised of three evening workshops concentrating on new technologies and tools, and are designed for anyone who is interested in keeping their skill sets up-to-date. These "hands-on" workshops will provide you with an overview of new [...]
I’m not completely sure how to respond to Martha Yee’s article entitled “Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation?“, but I do want to respond. While reading the article I found myself nodding and then saying “yeah, but…” I think that Martha is right in many ways, but that she [...]
Fedora CommonsFedora Commons provides sustainable technologies to create, manage, publish, share and preserve digital content as a basis for intellectual, organizational, scientific and cultural heritage by bringing two communities together. Managing Electronic Records and Assets: a Bibliography WebologyWebology is an international peer-reviewed [open access] journal in English devoted to the field of the World Wide [...]
If you’re in the Princeton area on Sept 4, come hear me chat about the CMS at the Public Library Tech Talks.
Over at Designing Better Libraries, Steven Bell has a post listing a few innovation blogs to get your creative juices flowing: Ideas 108 – This blog is dedicated to providing you with a steady stream of creative problem-solving tips and techniques. The Innovator's Digest – Gerald Haman's new weblog, which appears to be focused on [...]
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