Daily Archives: May 11, 2008

Columbus Metropolitan Library just posted a new management position: Digital Experience Manager http://tinyurl.com/5ynzvq Under the general direction of the Director of Digital Strategy, the Digital Experience Manager plans, administers, coordinates and drives all aspects of the digital customer experience including customer engagement, usability testing, design, content creation and service delivery. […]

WOW! Digital Experience Manager at CML

This entry was posted in Information Professionals Librarians, Libraries & the Profession and tagged Library Innovators on May 11, 2008 by Michael Stephens

Brian Herzog writes a perfect post on why Firefox could and should be used on public computers (emphasis mine): http://tinyurl.com/4fzz6b My library is in the process of re-doing all of our public computers. One major change we’re making is to switch to Firefox for our web browser, instead of the […]

Using Firefox on Public Computers

This entry was posted in Librarians, Libraries & the Profession and tagged firefox University on May 11, 2008 by Michael Stephens

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9937956-7.html A Republican congressman who has sponsored legislation banning access to social-networking Web sites in schools and libraries has found a new target of displeasure: Second Life. Rep. Mark Kirk, who is seeking re-election this year, staged a press conference at a library in his suburban Chicago district on Tuesday to […]

DOPA, Again… Illinois, Again…

This entry was posted in Information Professionals Librarians, Libraries & the Profession Social Media Software and tagged Social Software on May 11, 2008 by Michael Stephens

Stephen Francouer writes: http://tinyurl.com/556pof My Plan Do quick look ups of nineteen terms and concepts discussed in Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody to see what reference sources would be more helpful to the students I work with. Methodology Using quotation marks around search terms to force phrase searches, I […]

How Wikipedia stacked up against subscription databases

This entry was posted in Library 2.0/Web 2.0 on May 11, 2008 by Michael Stephens