2008.05.16.0014c, originally uploaded by Douglas County History Research Center. Caught these pictures today in Flickr and immediately emailed to get the okay to “Blog This.” I also asked about how these great photos came about. Cecily North, Assistant Archivist at the Douglas County Libraries wrote right back: Douglas County libraries holds a district-wide staff day every other year and on their off years each branch has a staff day. The branch the History Research Center is located in, in Castle Rock, decided to go with a theme of pirates this year. The center is a district-wide function even though we […]
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Brian Mathews writes: Yes, it is CeLIBration time again. Our annual welcome event for freshmen the Saturday before the Fall semester starts. Past CeLIBrations I have to be honest– I wasn’t really feeling it this year. Don’t get be wrong, we’ve had some great events over the years, but with the wedding and book deadline in September, my heart wasn’t into it. But then I looked at the line up and we have a lot of cool games. This might actually be our best one yet. I am totally in now. Dodgeball Tournament Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament (there are actually leagues: video) […]
hot001, originally uploaded by Dave & Bry. Dave Pattern writes: …so, from all of this painstaking research we can clearly see that librarian bloggers love to talk about books! 😉 http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/109981/biblioblogosphere http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/337
my librarian trading card, originally uploaded by jambina. I’m working on the next SLJ Learning 2.0 “Thing” — Flickr mashups. It reminded me to ask: Have you updated your librarian trading card lately? 🙂
Nicole writes: This is so awesome!!! Introducing the LibraryThing Web Services API. The API will eventually do many things. For starters it includes all of the data in LibraryThing’s Common Knowledge project, our groundbreaking “fielded wiki” for interesting book information (see original blog post). It includes fields like series, important characters, important places, author dates, author burial places, agents, edits, etc. If you’re interested in building or enhancing book-data applications, this should be very interesting. Common Knowledge is always in progress, but the results so far have been quite impressive. Members have made over 500,000 edits, and certain data types have become exceedingly useful and […]
I’ve been using Apple’s .mac service for years, since 2001 as a matter of fact. The recent upgrade from .Mac to MobileMe has garnered a lot of press for the problems, breakdowns and failures of the service meant to “push” data to my iPhone, my Macs and to the service itself, described as a “cloud.” Luckily I haven’t had much issue with the upgrade/switchover. I will say, however, that I think for a couple of weeks in July some emails I sent took a long time to get where they were going as did some I received. Compared to […]
blogging policy fresh and new, originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. I’m updating various presentations today and I’m adding this great resource: the Powerhouse Museum’ blogging policy. PDF: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/wp-content/powerhouse_museum_blog_policy_2007.pdf Blog post is here. Many organizations struggle with blogging because of many of the worries addressed in this document. I think a library can foster open, transparent conversation on many levels while still using a policy such as this to fall back on if problems arise. Take a look.
Library account avatars, originally uploaded by jblyberg. A bit of SOPAC 2.0 from John Blyberg. Looks good!
Sharp, you have registered a really stupid description., originally uploaded by JenWaller.
My library is going to Google Apps for our email – thoughts?, originally uploaded by Librarian by Day. Librarian by Day is looking for feedback… What do TTW readers think? I am very interested in this myself.