Run don’t walk to checkout the new DCPL IPhone App for the catalog: http://www.walkingpaper.org/1100 Aaron writes: Hurrah for alternative OPAC interfaces! I’m very pleased to let you know that the DCPL iPhone app went live last night. You can download it from the iTunes app store here. Functionality in this version includes: searching for library materials seeing an item’s cover and reading a summary placing a hold for pickup at the location of your choice finding the hours, locations and phone numbers of DC public libraries If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, please download it try it […]
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Plainsong, originally uploaded by Lester Public Library. Did you know we read this book for book club?
NO WANDERING, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.
Jenny points to a wonderful post at Museum 2.0: http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2009/01/05/an-open-letter-to-libraries-on-twitter.html http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2008/12/open-letter-to-museums-on-twitter.html 1. Don’t use Twitter to spam me about visiting. 2. It’s okay if you start by just following. 3. Once you decide to tweet, make it interesting. 4. Tell me something I can’t find on your homepage. 5. Tell me who you are. 6. Respond to people. 7. Give me content worthy of your institution. Great suggestions for sure, especially the bit about using to Twitter to share the museum’s humanity.
After getting a special press-only sneak preview of Darien’s new $24 million dollar, soon-to-be-certified “Green,” state-of-the-art library yesterday, all I can say is: Oh. My. GAWD. http://allaboutdarien.com/2009/01/the-new-darien-library-its-for-me/ A Darien, CT blogger and mom visits the new library for press opening day, and notes its user-centered, innovative approaches: (emphasis mine in bold) ….beyond the fact that there are no more “desks” behind which Librarians sit, but rather “consultation tables” and Librarians who float around with tablet laptops dedicated to helping you find what you’re looking for; beyond the fact that practically everything from building materials to geo-thermal heating and cooling and air […]
iTunes goes DRM-free. http://www.macworld.com/article/137946/2009/01/itunestore.html What will the implications be for the way folks consume music? For our collections?
When hell freezes over. Or when a blizzard buries Phoenix. Or when the cubs win the world series., originally uploaded by cogdogblog. CogDogBlog writes: That is when I may consider following someone with protected updates. Watchya hiding? I don’t wanna know, I ain’t interested. Nope.
Take a look at http://voicethread.com/share/289291/ to see how the good folks at Darien Library are telling their story. Gretchen Hams, the Head of Children’s Services, shares information about Children’s Services via Voicethread. I will be watching all the opening day festivities for this innovative new library from afar! Congrats to all involved.
Phil Bradley writes: The method that I use is fairly simple – a) Do I know this person myself? If so, it’s almost a certainty that I’ll add them. b) Do I know of them? Again, if the answer is yes, they’ll get added. c) If I don’t know them, what does their profile say? Everyone can add a small profile piece about themselves. If the profile is blank or not informative, they tend not to get added. d) How many tweets on the first page of their profile are useful to me? If I start looking, reading and clicking […]
I’m adding this article by Stephen Abram to my LIS701 syllabus. http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep08/Abram.shtml Abram offers various scenarios for the future of reference services, including this one: Status Quo: A Recipe for Fossilization This is the disaster scenario — at least for our profession. Suppose we don’t evolve fast enough. Most of us know the story of the frog in the boiling water. Will we be blind to the overall changes and allow ad-driven search results to dominate the important question space? Worse still, will we fall into the trap of demanding a Google-like experience? Will there be no event, no transformational experience that […]