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Planning & Pitfalls: Using Pageflakes for a Public Library Portal

 

An interview with Edward Byrne, Senior Librarian Web Services, Dublin City Libraries:

EB: The end product was rolled out to all branch libraries in January 2008, and can be deemed a success in that it successfully meets the need to provide a single point of access to diverse resources for our users, and [...]

Writing

Michael has written for Public Libraries, Library Journal, and other library-related journals.

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Bradley, P. & Stephens, M. The Library Internet Trainer’s Toolkit (UK), 2002, Neal Schuman Publishers & British Library Association.

The Library Internet Trainer’s Toolkit, 2001, Neal Schuman Publishers Inc.

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The SLJ Learning 2.0 NetVibes Portal

http://www.netvibes.com/sljalltogethernow

Click through to see all of the particpant blogs.

jOPAC: OPAC Widget for Multiple Platforms

Via Hans Roes, Director of Information Resources and Multimedia at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany:

The beta test of the IRC’s first Library 2.0 Widget: jOPAC. jOPAC allows searching the library catalogue within various other platforms, such as iGoogle, Netvibes, Windows Vista Sidebar, Macintosh Dashboard, etc. Further information and installation [...]

Building a Community: Create Your Own Social Network

 

I’ve always been fascinated by social interaction online, all the way back to 1994 when I started a discussion list for Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks fans on my old Mac with a dial-up connection. I didn’t know it then, but I was attempting to bring together a community–to make [...]

Emerging Technologies in Education

I’m attending a meeting this afternoon on campus as part of a discussion of emerging technologies and teaching. A few of us were given ten minutes to talk about what emerging technologies we use in our classes. I’ll be highlighting blogs and RSS (and a few other social technologies) for my segment. I’ll be [...]

An Open Letter to the South Bend Tribune

Dear South Bend Tribune:

 

I received your letter today asking for more information as to why I canceled my subscription last week. Your letter included a brief questionnaire asking why I stopped the paper and how the customer service was when I called to cancel. Yes, [...]

More on NetVibes – From France!

 

Clotilde comments about using NetVibes to build a portal:

The French Lille Management School’s library had made “virtual communities” with NetVibes.

You can see for example the HR communtiy on http://www.netvibes.com/esc-lille_rh You can also visit their website 2.0 : http://mediatheque.esc-lille.fr/index.php?id=362&L=1 (in english)

Tech Tips for Every Librarian

A big Thank You to the folks at Information Today for granting permission to me to reprint the articles I wrote as part of the “Tech Tips for Every Librarian” department, that Rachel Singer Gordon and I took turns writing in 2006 and 2007 for Computers in Libraries magazine. I enjoyed every one I [...]

Embedding a Librarian in Your Web Site Using meebo

Did last year’s “FASTER IM” article fire you up for on-the-cheap virtual reference? Have you launched your own instant messaging “ask a librarian” service and added it to your workflow? Are you ready for the next step? Then read on. And don’t worry, you can use these tips to start IM in your library [...]