WordPress: Open source blogging/CMS. Blogging for a Good Book: Sample WordPress site (hosted). LibraryThing: Catalog your whole library online. Scriblio: Open source OPAC/CMS. Lamson Library: Sample Scriblio site. Drupal: An engine suitable to setup or build a content driven or community driven website. Modular design allows flexibility in design. Franklin Park Public Library: Sample Drupal site. Fish4Info: a next generation social alternative library portal. (See this for more info.)
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Adopting a new technology can be fun, whether it’s Web 2.0 applications like Drupal or cutting-edge technologies like RFID. It can be seductive to watch these tools used by other library systems. We’ve seen many “cool tools” presentations at conferences that play up the wonders of Twitter, FriendFeed, or Facebook apps. However cool these new tools might appear, it may not be easy to inject them into your library—nor do they all belong there. Check out the Libraries Using Evidence blog, created by a group of Australian librarians, for insight into how evidence-based practice meets 2.0 initiatives. Administrators must take a big […]
My time at CIL was short so I didn’t attend much, including the feedback session for Swift. I am glad to get caught up via some excellent blogging: Ryan Deschamps: http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/no-tell-me-what-you-really-think/ I think ITI got user needs right for the conference. My needs? Top of the line speakers, organized sessions with paths to help me keep things relevant. Great moderators that help both audiences and presenters feel good about the space they are speaking in. Easy access to the internet (the only miss this time around — I’m sure they’ll learn for next time though). Ways to hook up with […]
100_3532 | Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian Fascinated by Karen Schneider’s Flickr set from IA Summit 2008.
Ruth at Utopian Library reports on CIL: http://www.utopianlibrary.com/?page_id=319 The common message at this year’s conference, at least from where I sat in each room, is this: The library has a story to tell. The story is about community. It’s not about the library. The community and the library can engage and support each other through creative use of social software and the library’s online presence. The library’s online presence and “virtual branch” rely on precious resources: money, staff, and time. Loads of conference blogging to click through. Thanks Ruth.
Helpdesk Rickrolled Originally uploaded by lerxst / boycat Joe writes: Grabbed www.flickr.com/photos/timtastic/2371253585/ and printed it. You can call the Information Systems Help Desk at 989-272-7425 and let them know that they got Rickrolled!
Did you know ALA was publishing the “Core Competencies of Librarianship?” Brian Kenney writes: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6545430.html Although the guidelines were presented at a public meeting, I don’t think this document is widely available, but you could try searching ala.org. The document is predictably conservative—in the sense of preserving what exists—and covers what you’d imagine: the foundation of our profession, information resources, organization, technical knowledge, reference and user services, research, continuing education, and administration. Likely the intent was to give ALA’s Committee on Accreditation, which accredits master’s programs in library and information science, a little more teeth—perhaps necessary in dealing with those […]
| View | Upload your own Run don’t walk to checkout this talk from CIL2008 about Facebook, libraries and the possibilities. I think my brain exploded a little when I read: Library catalogs are social networks for ideas.
Don’t miss Nancy Dowd’s shared presentation from CIL2008: http://www.slideshare.net/ndowd/giving-your-marketing-a-second-life/ I was very happy to meet Nancy in person after our talk. I really appreciate what she does and her take on marketing in libraries. Her thoughts on transparency and the Old School are spot on and should be discussed. Have you ever encountered an old school business that wants to control the message so much that the humanity, transparency and message itself gets muddled?
A few weeks ago we toured Columbia College Library (love the web site!) as part of my intro class. I bumped into a librarian who had heard me speak about extending services outside the library walls. She mentioned they had tried it to some interesting results. I asked her to write a few sentences to share with TTW readers – and here it is: As promised, I am sending you a note about an activity that I and another Reference Librarian undertook to advance our Library along the Library 2.0 way! Following a model you mentioned in your talk with […]