Hello. My name is Kate Marek, and Michael has offered me the opportunity to contribute a guest entry here at TTW. What a privilege! I work with Michael on the faculty at Dominican University's GSLIS, where we both work with many other talented faculty members as well as lots of wonderful students. In keeping with Michael's tradition in TTW, I'd like to use my posting opportunity to call your attention to a fascinating new technology that has just been unveiled. A couple of days ago Microsoft announced its new "Microsoft Surface" technology. The demo video shown on the Popular Mechanics […]
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Hi, I’m the Feel-good Librarian and I’m honored to be your guest poster for today. I’m a faithful reader of TTW. Although my library doesn’t use all the technologies that are talked about here, TTW is my line to learning about them, thinking about how we COULD use them and using some of them myself. That said, anyone who reads my blog knows that for me, people are first. Customer service is my thing. Technology is cool because it takes the library where the patrons are. It improves customer service by giving us more interaction points. It gives patrons the […]
Hi Everyone, my name is Michael Colford, and I am the on the Senior Management Team of the Boston Public Library in charge of Regional Services. When Michael asked me to guest blog on Tame the Web, I was both surprised and honored. I’ve done a fair bit of blogging, but not a whole lot in the library profession. That said, in my position at the BPL, I do a whole lot of talking up of using technology in the support of public service, and meeting users where they are using Social Networking and other Library 2.0 tools. I thought […]
Jenny reports that Exter PL in Rhode Island is using Netflix: http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/04/22/exeter_public_library_does_netflix.html Take a look at the comments at the EPL post as well: http://131.109.225.131/exelib/2007/03/netflix-your-library.html Please let us know how it goes, Exeter library folk!
Excellent CIL2007 conference blogging from Nicole Engard: http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988 First up: Tim Spaulding on how to make the catalog FUN: Allow inbound links! links into our catalogs are always timed out when you find them in search results. People want to link into this information and they assume it will always be there. One way to solve this is to provide a permalink – like Google maps – but I’d argue that this isn’t enough either!! Allow links outwardsThe more you link outwards the more people will come to you. This includes links out of your catalog. Tim said that some […]
100 Million iPods Sold Originally uploaded by mstephens7. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/09ipod.html http://playlistmag.com/news/2007/04/09/ipodanalysis/index.php
100 Million iPods Sold Originally uploaded by mstephens7. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/09ipod.html http://playlistmag.com/news/2007/04/09/ipodanalysis/index.php
The iPhone sent me a note Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Thanks for signing up. You’ll be the first to hear the latest about iPhone— coming this June. That gives you just enough time to think of ways to break the news to your current phone. No worries about breaking the news to the Sidekick. It’s already been told its days are numbered. 🙂
(my very first CIL presentation!) More screenshots here:CIL Presentations @ Flickr Spring is springing in Oak Park, Illinois, where I spend my weekdays. It’s also that time in March when my thoughts turn to cherry blossoms, monuments, the funny-shaped Hilton and the Computers in Libraries conference. Sadly, I won’t be attending CIL2007 next month. The date change and my teaching schedule prevent from traveling to one of my favorite conferences. I’ve attended this hob-knobbing, presentation-rich, innovation-centered conference for the last seven years. I think I’ll be sad those days in April, but biblioblogs and flickr will keep me informed. Wow…seven […]
http://fiksz.klog.hu/?p=70 Adam Paszternak emailed a few days ago to get my permission to translate the Ten Tech trends for Librarians post into Hungarian. Translation is always fine by me but I appreciate Adam’s courtesy. He writes: I’ve made some changes – not in the meaning, I just left out Michael’s personal experiences and added some of mine. Oooh! Now I need a translation back to read Adam’s experiences. 🙂 Thanks Adam! Update: Another translation here: http://marlenescorner.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/03/15/biblio-tendances-printemps-2007.html