You may be wondering why I’ve been quiet for the last week or so – or maybe you knew that I was on vacation. In honor of my last day before starting work again, I’m going to share what I’ve learned on my vacation. Boston is a great place to go for a weekend (if [...]
Apparently this program was left out of the schedule for ALA – make sure you add this to your calendar of events at ALA!! ALCTS CRG Forum in Anaheim Focused on Careers for Public Librarians in Technical Services Sunday, June 29, 8:00-9:30 a.m., Disney Paradise Pier Hotel, Pacific C/D Want to get the scoop on [...]
This via Infobib: After receiving overwhelming positive resonance from our readers and our LibWorld authors we would like to publish a book with updated LibWorld articles. And now we are searching for the ultimate LibWorld book cover! When you are inspired by the idea of connecting global librarianship and maybe you are a bit talented [...]
I wanted to try Wordle again. I decided to put in my resume from LinkedIn and my Publications & Presentations to see who I was according to Wordle. My Wordle Originally uploaded by nengard I see this as an addicting little toy … what else can you create a Wordle tag cloud with?? Technorati Tags: [...]
This handy guide from Lifehacker may help you customize your newly installed Firefox browser. Learn how to: Shrink the Super-sized Back Button Adjust the Smart Location Bar’s Number of Suggestions Delete Mistyped URL Suggestions and Other Auto-complete Entries Ditch Obselete Extensions Revert the “AwesomeBar” with Oldbar Trick Out Your Smart Bookmarks Set Gmail as Your [...]
It’s finally here! After tons of hard work, the Koha community has announced the release of Koha 3.0 RC1. This from the many Koha mailing lists: You can download from the usual location: http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-stableRC1.tar.gz http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-stableRC1.tar.gz.sig You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying the provided GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the [...]
This from Rachel Singer Gordon. I’m no artist … but you may be: LISjobs.com is seeking submissions for a new logo that reflects its mission of job hunting and career development for librarians and info pros. This logo will be featured on the upcoming redesign of the LISjobs.com website, as well as in additional print [...]
Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. (tags: visualization cloud words generator) HelloTxt Send out status updates to several social networks at once. (tags: microblogging aggregator mashup) Toluu Toluu is a free service for sharing the feeds you read and discovering new ones. (tags: [...]
my del.icio.us tags Originally uploaded by nengard I decided to play with Wordle. I didn’t have a paper or article that I wanted to use, so instead I decided to generate a cloud for my del.icio.us bookmarks. I think this is the perfect image of me – open source and libraries being my biggest terms!! [...]
Zoomii.com – The “Real” Online Bookstore (tags: bookstore amazon books shopping) Screencast: How to Select Multiple Lines of Text in Firefox 3 (tags: firefox) Keeping Found Things Found [KFTF] (tags: informationoverload pim information productivity organization)
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