Jessamyn Joins CIL Originally uploaded by mstephens7 WooHoo! Jessamyn West has taken over writing “Tech Tips for Every Librarian” at CIL with Rachel. Her first article “Data and Desires: What Users Really Want” is great!
Yearly Archives: 2008
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Jeffrey R. Young notes the libraries offering Facebook apps: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2643/searching-library-collections-in-facebook So far the application does not seem to be listed in Facebook’s official directory. But a quick search of Facebook’s other applications shows that more than a dozen other academic libraries have created their own search tools for the social-networking platform. The University of Notre Dame has one, for instance, as does Elmhurst College, Pace University, and Ryerson University. JSTOR, the popular, nonprofit digital archive of scholarly publications, also offers a Facebook application. One thing I discovered when I invited Wired Campus readers to join my Facebook friend group is […]
Life imitates art, originally uploaded by Weymouth Public Library. After reading “Dad’s Bald Head”, Dad Ken decided to take the plunge and shave his head too! Connor is proud of his dad! This made me smile… nice to see on the Weymouth PL flickrstream!
http://curtisrogers.blogspot.com/2008/01/apple-store-amazing-customer-service.html Dr. Curtis Rogers just bought a MacBook (hooray!) and he describes the customer service at the Apple Store: I kept on looking for her to walk me to the back of the store to the check out counter but that was not the case. Another guy came up and while she went to grab my new MacBook, he checked my ID so I would get the State Government discount and with a handheld device, processed the sale. I NEVER moved! He swiped my card right there, I signed his handheld device and was good to go. What a great […]
Welcome! TTW is now brought to you via WordPress! Thanks to Mr. Blake Carver, a gentleman and a scholar, for all of the assistance porting over the content and such to the new software. I feel like I’ve died and gone to WYSIWYG heaven! Please update your feed readers, RSS portals, aggregators, etc to these new and improved Feedburner feeds, including a comment feed: New Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TameTheWeb Comment Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForTameTheWeb I’d also like to welcome Kyle Jones and Lee Leblanc who will be contributing content from time to time. Find out more about them here: https://tametheweb.com/ttw-contributors/ Lee authored a popular […]
Troy Swanson writes: This is very cool. Our IT department has helped out the by putting up our own Feed Parser. Now, sure what a feed parser it? Basically, it’s a tool that lets you take display an RSS feed in a Web page (Blackboard page, blog, etc) as a bulleted list. It is an easy way for the less technically savvy faculty members to incorporate outside content into course sites. I’ve put together this Feed parser help page to explain how this works a bit more. http://www2.morainevalley.edu/default.asp?SiteID=10&PageId=2066
Make your own here: http://blog.acpl.lib.in.us/cgi-bin/in2018.pl Sean Robinson at the cutting-edge Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, inspired by the incredible folks in New Zealand, has created a card creation system for sharing your thoughts on what libraries will be like in ten years. Scoot on over and give it a go. Then checkout the responses here: http://blog.acpl.lib.in.us/in2018/build_wall.php
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 wrote but was often sad that the immediacy of blogging and the opportunity to comment were lost because it was print-based. After 90 days, the rights to the content reverted to me. In preparing the new version of TTW, I wanted to make sure it was […]
Great news teen librarians! Do you want to do something snazzy for Teen Tech Week this year? It’s a great way to offer programming for young people and introduce or offer access to technologies and media. Take a look at what the folks at the LibraryLoft did last year, the snazzy offerings at the Public Library of Brookline or the line up of HOT programs the Tulsa Library offered teens. According to the YALSA site, “the 2008 theme, Tune In @ Your Library, was chosen by teens from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds for its focus on music and sound. […]
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 now if you haven’t already. Last time we discussed IM (April 2006 CIL, “IM=FASTER Virtual Reference on the Cheap!”), I presented the FASTER model, for any type or size of library. This model addresses questions about implementation, workflow, and training: F is for going with the […]