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Wiking the Blog and Walking the Dog: Social Software, Virtual Reality, and Authority Everywhere
Jed Moffitt of the King County LIbrary System began the PLA-sponsored Wiking the Blog and Walking the Dog with family stories that somehow led to a disclosure that the topic of social software in libraries is not so cutting-edge as it was eighteen months ago when the topic was chosen for the American Library Association [...]
Not Your Dad’s Interface
Yesterday, Saturday, January 20, I attended the “Not Your Dad’s Interface: Next Generation OPACs and Search Engines” Hot Topics session sponsored by MARS ( Machine Assisted Reference Section of RUSA). And the joint was standing room only, a fact that didn’t surprise me, but did surprise the moderator.
The purpose of the 3-presentation session [...]
