David King concludes a post (in response to Greg who responded to me) with: It’s up to us librarians to figure out what our content is, and how to provide our customers the ability to aggregate that content. This speaks volumes. Sure – let’s spend $10,000 on a new database, invest loads of hours of Web designer time in a new Teen page, start staffing a VR desk 40 hours a week, add bells & whistles to our Web-based catalogs, etc. Do all of the these things – BUT have a plan to get your content out to your users! […]
Yearly Archives: 2005
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I’ve been looking for podcast bits out in the blogosphere as i shape these thoughts. I came across these in my travels: At Blisspix: http://blisspix.net/index.php?p=29 “As I?ve commented to a couple of people and lists now, broadcasting/podcasting is fun, but it can be lonely and time-consuming to produce content. I found it quicker to produce live-to air in the studio, because I wasn?t going back and fixing mistakes, and all the equipment was set up (so I could play grabs, a record, a CD, a minidisc and conduct a phone interview all at the same time if I really wanted). […]
Wildfire! I tell you! Wildfire! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4521427 (Audio after 6pm)
Grace commented about her library’s Toolbar: Hi! Thanks for posting about us. To answer your questions – right now we’ve got a press release out to the Houston Chronicle and I’m developing a bookmark for the branches. I’ve thought about doing a poster, but we’ll see. Having it on the website alone seems to be doing pretty well – we had 478 downloads in February. We haven’t done any training for the staff or public. Ironically, the staff computers don’t yet have a toolbar. Rather than pushing the toolbar designed for the public to the staff computers, we’re in the […]
http://www.oblog.nl/ Speaking of the UK response to our ALA president’s words… Check in with our colleagues in the Netherlands as well… Rob is posting about Gormangate. (I promise I won’t beat this issue anymore!)
Nice little weblog found its way to NetNewsWire this am: http://technogeekery.blogspot.com/2005/02/michael-gorman-on-blogging.html Note UK Blogger Phil Bradley’s post who I got to meet last year in London. He edited my book for the UK back in the day. I was interested to read his perspective.
No one is born knowing everything Ya gotta learn sometime I know lots about library techie stuff, but not everyone is like me I don’t know much about other areas of librarianship.. but someone else does. Read his post here and don’t miss the last paragraph! This is perfect LIS blogging, friends!
I cannot get enough of flickr, even though I am home today watching the snowstorm and a little under the weather. I heart the feed of London images I subscribed too. I heart participating in the Feet Perspective Group. I heart the interaction and finding out where something is via commenting and choosing favorites. Check it out…
Well done Greg & Karen! I am loathe to link just to the LJ piece… other suggestions?
Via LISNews: http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/26/1759210 Get a load of that! Talk about PRESENCE! Well done Harris County Public Library. If we are selling our message of provideing access and materials, what better way than actually putting that “message” into someone’s browser. The public library needs to be in people’s minds — not just as an afterthought when other resources fail. I’d be interested in what prmotional activities the library is doing as well as what training staff and the public received!