May 2010 Blog Posts (5)

Libraries and Google Calender

Google calender is a top notch online calender with many powerful features (see overview). One of the most important feature is that libraries can offer library events as public google calenders, and users who add that to their google calenders can get free SMS reminders (this works worldwide!) In this post, I will review how libraries have being using Google… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on May 15, 2010 at 4:01am — No Comments

Using RSS feeds to distribute library news - 6 ways

Okay, I'm a big fan of RSS feeds, many of the posts here involve manipulating or consuming RSS feeds in some form, and social media is essentially tied to RSS. "Aggregating

sources for academic research in a web 2.0 world" is probably my

most popular post on how to consume RSS feeds from various sources. "…

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Added by Aaron Tay on May 15, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

What are mobile friendly library sites offering? A survey.

Everyone knows mobile is hot now, and many libraries are scrambling to add mobile friendly pages. Currently the most complete listing of libraries with mobile sites can be found at the Library Success Wiki site , which lists over 40 such sites.

I thought it would be helpful to look at these 40+ sites to see what… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on May 15, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

allCIRC™ - A True CD/DVD Security System For Your Library

allCIRC™ is a great tool for your library media theft security. It is an automated system

to secure and dispense your CD/DVD collection with a patron self checkout

system built-in. This new technology helps you eliminate media shrinkage, save

staff time and eliminate RFID tags etc.

* Exclusively For Libraries:…

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Added by Oleg Boyarsky on May 11, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Elementry.........

Over a couple of years ago, I came across a website .It keeps the catalogs of our collection, say about 2000 entries - free of cost, online. can any one know the staus of that site.

Added by selvakumar Jaganathan on May 7, 2010 at 3:37am — No Comments