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PACs in the Library 2.0 World (PLA)
PACs in the Library 2.0 World (PLA) This session was a panel consisting of four presenters, each addressing a different aspect. Ross MacLachlan of the Phoenix Public Library Endeca: Developments in the OPAC World The Phoenix Public Library uses Endeca because: it is a search engine it harvests data it enables guided navigation it is [...]
Web 2.0
Great session this afternoon on being cutting edge. Here’s what I learned. The session I went to this morning was on Library 2.0. Oh, I know what you’re thinking, “we have Helene ( Blowers with us now in Columbus, Ohio, we don’t need to hear other folks talk about this.” Not true! It’s not going [...]
It takes a village to answer a question
On Saturday, January 12, I attended the “Best Practices in Cooperative Reference: Reference and Social Networking” session presented by QuestionPoint, with panel speakers Stephen Francoeur (Baruch College), Beth Evans (Brooklyn College) and David Lankes (Syracuse University). While the panel seemed targeted at academic librarians, I actually found a great deal that would be of interest [...]
Online CE Freebies: Web 2.0 & Security
10 Ways to Make Your Library Great in 2008—via Web 2.0 1/16/08 11 AM-12 PM PT / 2-3 PM ET (registration is optional) Excellent note: WebJunction’s webinars are now closed captioned in real time as well as in the recorded archive. As you think about your resolutions for the New Year, why not resolve to [...]
Pop Goes The Book!
How very exciting! It turns out that Sophie Brookover and Liz Burns, two of the intrepid librarians who blog over at Pop Goes the Library, are working on a book titled Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect With Your Whole Community, to be published sometime in 2008. And they need *your* feedback! [...]
Interesting conversation on social networking etiquette
Navigating the new online landscape, with all of the new social networking sites, means navigating a whole new culture. Interacting in the new culture also means understanding the etiquette of that culture. It’s important to understand that, on a certain level, the new culture is making it up as they go along. On the other [...]
Technical Services 2.0: Using social software for collaboration
ALA Session held Monday 1:30-3:30 OK, I’ll be honest and say that although I found the summary of this program enticing, I wasn’t sure if I’d spend the whole time at the session. It appeared to have an academic focus, and come on – it’s technical services and I am SO not a technical services [...]
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 [...]
Transforming your library and your library’s future with technology
Held Saturday 1:30-3:30 This session was an interesting one, but from my viewpoint, it’s one that got better as it went along. The first speaker, Lori Ayre, focused on things that I didn’t think really fit with this topic. She even said that she was going to talk about technologies “with levers and buttons, not [...]
Not-So-Techie Library 2.0: Finkelstein Memorial Library
Zeke Killbride, a librarian at the Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley, NY, wrote to us about a digital collection recently posted to the library’s site: I’m writing to suggest a library link for your blog. I’m a librarian at the Finkelstein Memorial Library in Rockland County, New York, north of New York City. One [...]
