Categories Resources & Websites for Librarians

Joel Husenits, Managing Editor at the Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN), writes: The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) is using Google Co-op to power a search engine that searches all 251 Ohio public library websites. You can check it out at www.oplin.org/fal (we folded it into our existing “Find an Ohio Library” site). We thought other states and/or library systems might be interested in examples of localized custom search tools. Thanks Joel. I did some sample searches, including the above for “blogs.” Seems fluid and friendly. Nice! Have other libraries adopted this technology?

I can’t say it enough: SC State Library has it going on! Hey Indiana State Library, take a look! Dr. Curtis Rogers writes: We are certainly doing some great things here at the state library. Our DISCUS program director and training coordinator have just put together their first podcast and it sounds great! You can listen to it online at www.scdiscus.org.

Things I’m reading whilst Waiting for the Refrigerator Repairman: The Library 2.0 Roundup: http://scruffynerf.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/library-20-roundup/ Excellent clearinghouse of posts, discussions, articles and suck from LIS student Jennifer Macaulay. The State of the Blogosphere: http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000443.html As you can see, growth in the numbers of blogs tracked by Technorati continues to grow briskly. While the doubling of the blogosphere has slowed a bit (every 236 days or so, here’s the historical data) , interest in blogging remains considerable. About 55% of all blogs are active, which means that they have been updated at least once in the last 3 months. More on Millennials: […]

The Social Customer Manifeso’s “Top Ten Ways Businesses, Associations and Organizations Can Use Social Networking:” http://www.socialcustomer.com/2006/09/the_top_ten_way.html Jessamyn West’s Ten Tips for Presenters: http://www.librarian.net/stax/1863 (read the comments too!) Librarian in Black’s Ten Reasons Librarians Should Use Ask.com Instead of Google: http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2006/09/ten_reasons_lib.html

Checkout this post at Library Garden for an interview with Eric Reiss: http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/2006/06/dogmas-are-meant-to-be-broken.html 1. Anything that exists only to satisfy the internal politics of the site owner must be eliminated. 2. Anything that exists only to satisfy the ego of the designer must be eliminated. 3. Anything that is irrelevant within the context of the page must be eliminated.

http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2006/06/rereadings_gett.html I’m rereading David Allen’s Getting Things Done, since it’s again relevant in how I’m trying to organize my infinite pile of things to do. I’m still using the Getting Calendar Done approach of using Google Calendar to capture tasks in a trusted, searchable place that’s not my inbox. I’m about half way through the first chapter, and already my backpack is quite a bit lighter and better organized, some health insurance incompetence is being dealt with, and a very interesting job offer landed in my inbox. (Your mileage may vary.) I find that when reading something like GTD it […]

http://digitalreshift.org: Chris Harris’s new Website, with links to his presentations. http://www.selco.info/blog/2006/05/library-fines-or-not.html: Barbara Missely ponders library fines and links to a CSM poll. http://techessence.info/node/49: Andrew Pace asks: “Have you ever sat down with a programmer?”