March 2010 Blog Posts (16)

Thoughts about RDA

I've written a couple of short posts about RDA (Resource Description & Access) on my blog, which some of you may be interested in. If you're not a cataloguer you may not be aware that RDA is the replacement for AACR2 - acknowledging that digital resources need guidelines for…

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Added by Gary Green on March 30, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Scanning mentions of the library - Twitter, Google alerts & more

By now many corporations including libraries routinely scan for mentions of themselves on the internet. The number one free tool used is of course Google alerts, but with the rise of real time searches and microblogging, attention has turned towards scanning for Tweets.

In this post, I will share with you some of my experiences doing so called "environmental scanning" using free tools.

The examples will be more impressive… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on March 26, 2010 at 9:29am — No Comments

More About Madeleine

I love books, i cannot pass a day without reading something. I don't know but for whatever reason, reading makes me feel so secured.

If i have time, i bake and if i don't i chat.

I find life so interesting that's why i cannot imagine some people are committing suicide.

Essay writing is a hobby and reading is my life. I can play drums. People are often surprised… Continue

Added by madeleine Byrne on March 25, 2010 at 6:44am — No Comments

Digital Libraries

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Added by Jeelani on March 23, 2010 at 4:49am — No Comments

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Added by Jeelani on March 21, 2010 at 3:07am — No Comments

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Supporting collocation learning with a digital library

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Added by Jeelani on March 21, 2010 at 2:30am — No Comments

A Talk About New Moon

Аfter seeing the movie, there is only one curiosity to аnswer: which is better, twilight or new moon?

There might hаve been one flаwless аnswer for this, but the point of compаring the two is like weighing the importаnce of wаter over аir in living.

New moon soundtrack is also worth remembering. I love it that soft and hard music can actually come together to… Continue

Added by madeleine Byrne on March 13, 2010 at 2:04am — No Comments

Well done, Steve!

It's really heartening that someone will spare the energy to keep this going.

Added by Alan MacLennan on March 7, 2010 at 9:02am — 1 Comment

Library Junction: where minds meet and ideas pop up!

Online social networking is an area where more and more libraries experimenting with. The current flavour is Ning, a platform where you can create your own social network. Many organizations and groups use

this as their live and interactive meeting places. Facebook, Myspace,

Orkut, etc are also social networks but the control key is not with you.

All the personal information you oblige to give when join the network

are stored…

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Added by S. L. FAISAL on March 7, 2010 at 5:07am — 1 Comment

Is there something missing??

I hope someone reads this and can fill me in. I can't seem to create a topic for discussion nor can I reply to a topic. Are these features disabled right now??

Added by Tandy Kibbler on March 5, 2010 at 3:14pm — 1 Comment

QR codes for libraries - some thoughts

QR code stands for "quick response", it's basically a 2D barcode that can be used to store urls, text etc.

QRcodes can be used to quickly pull data from the physical world into mobile phones which are equipped with free QR code readers (many free ones exist,but Beetagg supports quite a few phones) automatically. Simply scan the QRcode with your phone's… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on March 5, 2010 at 8:10am — No Comments

iPhone apps for librarians

Got your IPhone recently and want a quick overview of what innovative librarians , library or library vendors have done with IPhone apps?

I was in this situation about 2 months ago and did quite a bit of research, so to save you all time, I offer the following list plus commentary .This is not meant to be a complete guide on what are the best general interest Iphone apps (typically this involves picking a Twitter client, IM Client, RSS feed reader, online storage service like dropbox… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on March 5, 2010 at 8:09am — No Comments

Does embedding search widgets increase usage? Using Google analytics to track this

Introduction

There are two "movements" in librarianship that I'm quite interested in, one is of course "library 2.0" , the other which doesn't show as much because it's hard to blog about is "evidence based librarianship". I always liked figures and statistics (I enjoyed analyzing the heck out of LibQual+ data last year) and being able to "prove" that some initiative is worthwhile always makes me happy.

Some have suggested that Library 2.0 and evidence based… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on March 5, 2010 at 8:08am — No Comments

Scheduling meetings - Tungle & Doodle

I'm pretty bad with dates and appointments, so I rely heavily on my online Calender to keep track of my meetings.

My main calender is Google Calender (for the sms updates) synced to Outlook Calender (because we are on Exchange server) to keep track of my appointments using Google Calender Sync .

I know many librarians embed… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on March 5, 2010 at 8:07am — No Comments

Using Trailmeme

I've just finished a series of posts on my blog about using Trailmeme. As the website puts it "A trail is a (partially) sequenced collection of digital objects, such as webpages. A trail can be a straight sequence of pages or contain

branches..." Unlike traditional bookmarking, you can link sites together using trails, therefore creating a route along related online materials.… Continue

Added by Gary Green on March 1, 2010 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Knobbling the Winter Olympic Catalogue Results

On my personal blog I recently wrote a blog post about fudging catalogue records, so that I could link easily from Twitter to a subset of catalogue records. This was in an attempt to direct followers of our Library Service Twitter account to library stock related to the Winter Olympics. In summary, this involved coming up…

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Added by Gary Green on March 1, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments