Yearly Archives: 2006

717 posts

“Broken” Views and a Sweet Phrase

Caught this in Mark Lindner’s post about his blog’s page views. Nice little bit at the end about joining the biblioblogosphere and “why we do this…” And, yes, I fully know that this little event really is no great shakes in the grand scheme of things, or even as important as stopping to appreciate the beauty of a flower or the smile of a puppy, but it gives me a small little glow anyway. If anyone had told me back in January 2005 that I’d have well over 500 posts and 20,000 page views in less than a year and […]

Engineering Librarians Rule

Tuesday I was in downtown Chicago to take part in the American Society for Engineering Education conference. I was pleased to see they have a conference blog: http://www.asee.org/chicago2006/ I was there to present in the Engineering Libraries division. Convened by Darcy Duke, from MIT, I was part of Staying Relevant to Our Users: How New Technologies are Redefining the Role of the (Engineering) Librarian. The session description: New technologies and new tools are changing the face of what information professionals do and perhaps even redefining what it means to be a librarian. This issue is particularly relevant to engineering and […]

OCLC Newsletter

OCLC Newsletter Originally uploaded by mstephens7. http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/1.htm I was really happy to be asked to contribute to the new OCLC NextSpace on Web 2.0. Take a look. The folks who contributed blow me away with their ideas and insights. Don’t miss Dr. Wendy Schultz’s take on Library 4.0: But Library 4.0 will add a new mode, knowledge spa: meditation, relaxation, immersion in a luxury of ideas and thought. In companies, this may take the form of retreat space for thought leaders, considered an investment in innovation; in public libraries, the luxurious details will require private partners as sponsors providing the […]

How to sell RSS

Via the Copyblogger: http://www.copyblogger.com/how-to-sell-rss/ Recently released studies re-affirm that people love getting content by email, and don’t get why they should switch to RSS. Of course when you ask the question “Do you want to aggregate RSS feeds?” and get a negative response, it’s as if you had asked “Do you want to access Web pages with HTTP?” in 1995 (good one, Scott!). Regardless, people simply don’t like change. And when you tout RSS on the basis that it does the exact same thing as email when it comes to content delivery, you’ll get nothing more than a shrug and […]

Reinvention – Shifted Style!!!

http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2006/06/20/jenny_and_alas_excellent_adventure.html Congratulations to Jenny Levine on her new job at the American Library Association!! What an incredible thing: Jenny quotes the job description: “Knowledge of 2.0 technologies and concepts. Ability to work in a complex organizational environment. Strong communication ability (written and verbal). Comfort with rapid prototyping….” Who would have thought just 8 or so months ago when the discussions of social tools and L2 were ramping up that by Summer 2006 ALA would be advertising for someone to utilize 2.0 technologies and work in an environment of rapid prototyping? And who would have guessed that one of the most […]

A Conference Aggregator

David Warlick posts about Hitchhikr: It’s a conference aggregator for lack of a better phrase. You’ll see two lists of conferences in the panel to the right. The top list includes conferences that will be happening in the next month (in red), conferences that have already happened in the last month (gray), and any conferences that are currently going on (blue). The longer list beneath includes all of the conferences that have been registered on hitchhikr. They are sorted by popularity. You can click any conference to receive its report. Reports include a brief description, submitted by the person who […]

The Full Set of Our Librarian Trading Cards

The Full Set of Our Librarian Trading Cards Originally uploaded by Pegasus Librarian. Jenny & Steven have already mentioned this but I just have to chime in and comment on how wonderful it is to take this online thing and make it a physical extension as well: putting a face on the library. Folks, any library can do this! Think of the possibilities for outreach to your community of users! Collect them all! Rock On Gould Library! UPDATE from Iris: Thanks Michael. 🙂 One note of clarification: these cards have been around since before the “online thing.” Every year since […]