Categories Libraries on the Web

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Posts about how libraries are using the web to offer services, engage patrons, advocate for libraries/other groups, etc.

Libraries on the Web

Digital Libraries at University of Buffalo

Exciting news in digital libraries! LIS graduate students at the University at Buffalo have rolled out another “real world” project! With Dr. June Abbas as project manager, students from the Spring 2007 Digital Libraries class formed 6 teams to create the Karpeles Digital Manuscript Library. This digital library – researched, designed, and implemented in just one semester – uses Greenstone digital library software to organize and display: “digital images and information on some of the many collections housed within the nine Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums located throughout the United States.” [1] The digital library pulls from the eclectic Disney, Maps, […]

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New IM Report

Via Stephen Abram: http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2006/12/teens_and_im.html This post includes facts from a new report from AOL on IM use (http://press.aol.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1138&section_id=15) and then Stephen weighs in: More grist for the library mill. I recall seeing a 1956/57 article in the Wilson Library Bulletin advising libraries not to adopt telephone reference. From my travels this year, we seem to be split on piloting IM reference and resisting it. This seems to be a watershed issue in libraries and our relationship with our users. Several folks have informed me that their library IM trial yielded poor results. I asked how they marketed and promoted the […]

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On Using IM Reference

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/556 Nicole writes: I just finished my first conversation with a reference staff member at Drexel via IM! I needed to find a required journal and was thrown off by the interface they provided me with. I went right to my comfort zone – InfoTrac because that’s what we have at work and I know how to use it – but turns out that even though it said my journal was in there – it wasn’t! So I opened up IM and asked the librarian. Now that I think back I guess a complaint would be that he/she didn’t provide […]

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Steal this Idea: Quicker Than A Ray of Light Staff Day Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrtYdFV_Eak For your viewing enjoyment, in light of the recent Warner Brothers/You Tube alliance, is “Ray of Light” from SJCPL Staff Day 2003. It’s taken three years, but now I feel much more comfortable posting this and I did get permission from SJCPL administration. This video was borne out of a time that we wanted to show the staff how important every single person is to the mission of the library. Ity’s not books, or snazzy technology, or a beautiful building, folks, it’s people that make the library go round in my book. Steal this idea or any part of […]