August 2007 Blog Posts (39)

Apply now for the 2008 Medical Library Association Scholarship

Interested

in health sciences librarianship? A scholarship for up to $5000.00 will

be granted to a student who is entering an ALA-accredited library

school or who has yet to finish at least one half of the program's

requirements in the year following the granting of the scholarship. For

further information contact Lisa McGuire at lmcguire@umn.edu. Applications are available online at:… Continue

Added by Martha on August 31, 2007 at 3:53pm — No Comments

Presenting at the XXVII Annual Charleston Conference

I'll be a part of the Saturday, post-breakfast "Innovations Sessions". My best guess is that I'll be discussing web services and Blackboard, unless something more interesting comes up. Stop in and say hi.

http://www.katina.info/conference/

Richard

Added by Richard Cox on August 31, 2007 at 9:31am — No Comments

Seeking resources for a Maryland school library

I have just received and accepted an offer of a post at The Maryland School for the Blind. I rejoined AASL while retaining my LITA division membership in ALA, as part of the advanced preparations. I'm, also, trying to locate resources to assist with funding a technology upgrade and a professional assessment of the physical space. Yes, its an "on the way to big and better things" situation complete with a legacy stand-alone Winnebago system and rooms of older materials that need to be sorted in… Continue

Added by Dorothy Hughes on August 30, 2007 at 6:45pm — No Comments

31 Flavors - Things to Do With Flickr in Libraries.

Check out my new article ...

31 Flavors - Things to Do With Flickr in Libraries. / by P. F. Anderson
http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=17624

Added by Patricia F. Anderson on August 29, 2007 at 11:01am — 2 Comments

UBUNTU is the answer...

I joined Howard County Library and ended up with this staff of unix-heads! The talked about this thing, some operating system that sounded like a character from Peanuts --- I had no idea what they were talking about !

I bought a book on Red Hat, and understood even less.

So, I said, forget reading, give it to me; I hand them build me a computer, partition hard drive and I worked in Linux.

You know what; I am just as wonderful and brilliant in Linux as I was in MS… Continue

Added by Amy De Groff on August 24, 2007 at 9:32am — No Comments

In Search of a new ILS Vol. 1

We had a meeting with a rep from Polaris today. He, of course, made the product sound quite wonderful. We currently have plans to migrate to SirsiDynix's Rome, but our director wanted to meet with other companies before doing so.

One thing I really dislike about Unicorn, our current ILS, is the difficulty in customizing the OPAC. Even minor changes require skill with UNIX code, which I do not have. Polaris' OPAC allows editing in HTML! So practical, I'm really suprised Sirsi hasn't… Continue

Added by Wesley Thomas Johnson on August 22, 2007 at 11:05am — No Comments

It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!

Added by Steven Harris on August 21, 2007 at 7:09pm — No Comments

Innovation spaces: What do you think of where you Work?

Hi,

Thanks you for all of those who added their input to the discussion on the Creative Generation. The points made are well-taken and have already had an influence on our analysis.

I just recently added another post on our initial analysis on workspace, and would really appreciate any input on what makes a good workspace or library, as well as your experiences?

the post is here:… Continue

Added by Christopher Hire on August 21, 2007 at 1:46am — No Comments

Resources for Library 2.0

All of the presentations from the Library 2.0 Seminar held at Ohio State University on June 13-14 are now available for streaming at http://library.osu.edu/sites/Seminar2-0/links.php . You should have the latest version of RealPlayer to view…

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Added by Mary Hricko on August 20, 2007 at 11:28am — No Comments

Major Zotero Update: Release Candidate Launches

We are excited to announce the launch of Zotero Release Candidate 2. This release adds many new features.

Zotero now offers full-text indexing of PDFs, adding your archived PDFs to the searchable text in your collection.

Zotero's integration with word processing tools has been greatly improved.

The MS Word plugin works much more seamlessly and we now support… Continue

Added by tjowens on August 20, 2007 at 10:34am — No Comments

CENDI - NFAIS Forum on The Search Imperative

Save The Date – Wednesday, November 14, 2007

The Search Imperative! Its Changing Nature, Continuing Impact

This is a workshop jointly sponsored by CENDI and NFAIS[1] to be held at the U.S. Government Printing Office, 732 N. Capitol Street, NW ,Washington, DC 20401 (Room: Harding Hall).

In today’s competitive search environment, the union of content and technology is your competitive advantage when the search functionalities… Continue

Added by Jill on August 17, 2007 at 3:53pm — No Comments

Added Google Maps to Our Library Web site

Our library has added several Google maps to our Web site. We recognized that we continually direct students to useful places (such as public libraries) around our college district. We thought that adding a map of these locations would be pretty nice. Thus, we put together the maps section of our site.

Added by Troy Swanson on August 15, 2007 at 3:48pm — No Comments

I’m in The New York Times!!

I posted about this on my blog InfoTangle as well, but just had to share the news with my Library 2.0 friends too: The New York Times ran a story about bloggers whose efforts led succesfully to a career

goal, and one of them is me!!! I’m just so thrilled that… Continue

Added by Ellyssa Kroski on August 15, 2007 at 3:22pm — No Comments

Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute

Every year the State Library of Florida puts on a ten month class called the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute, or SSLLI. On one Friday a month for 10 months, 20 students come together to learn about how to be a more effective leader and benefit from a mentorship with a more experienced librarian. I applied for it this year, and got accepted! But the downside is that I might not be able to go because of budget cuts. I would have to travel to Tampa once a month and stay overnight, and… Continue

Added by Anna M. Nelson on August 15, 2007 at 9:05am — No Comments

The End of Summer Programming - is it wrong to be so relieved?

Gearing up for summer programming is always stressful and I wondered if I'd ever make it through. (We were reopening the library after almost two years of renovation and expansion and I must confess I felt a bit low on the creativity reserve.) Finishing up on my last class in graduate school, I must confess that I procrastinated a bit on the preparation for my programs, but in the end all turned out well thanks to the help and support of Paul and Nancy. Pulling all nighter's during…

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Added by Alicia Moon-Wan on August 14, 2007 at 2:54am — No Comments

What makes an effective participation strategy?

I have been asked to be involved in a consultation event for a teaching support project - Subject Learning Coaches where one of the questions to be addressed is 'Building a learning community - how do we develop a strategy to turn the 90% of lurkers in online forums into occasional or active participants?

Is this realistic to aim for more than 10 active participation? We all know of some forums and communities that work better than…

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Added by Andy Kirk on August 14, 2007 at 2:15am — No Comments

Iraq National Library Director Resists Military Intrusions

from the BCALA listerv:

Saad Eskander, director of the Iraq National Library and Archive in

Baghdad, issued a plea to the international library community August 9

for support in his efforts to resist the unlawful entry of Iraqi

national guard troops, which, he believes, endangers the INLA's staff

and collections. According to Eskander, a group of guards forced their

way into the main building August 8 as the government declared a

four-day curfew, which kept the… Continue

Added by edi campbell on August 13, 2007 at 4:54pm — No Comments

Defending Genre Fiction

I recently posted an article on the Teleread blog describing the benefits of popular fiction. The article is "Why libraries should offer popular fiction—in both print and

e-book formats". Stephen Abram's reaction and comments about this post can be read on his blog, here. I think that we have a hard time promoting Library 2.0, when some people do… Continue

Added by RefLibrarian on August 13, 2007 at 10:16am — 2 Comments

CFLC Reference Interest Group Meeting

This coming Thursday, August 16th, is the next CFLC Reference Interest Group Meeting. The topic this meeting is Reference 2.0: Academic and Public Library Perspectives.

Megan Danak (judydark here on Ning) and myself will be presenting along with Aysegul Kapucu of UCF on Web 2.0 and its respective uses in academic and public settings. Mrs. Kapucu will be presenting on the academic front while Megan and I will be focusing on the… Continue

Added by Kelley Minars on August 13, 2007 at 8:42am — No Comments

Library 2.0

I'm taking the School Library Learning 2.0 class sponsored by CSLA this summer. My electronic resources horizon is expanding every day. I'm still working on how exactly I can incorporate Library 2.0 resources in my library.

Added by Heather on August 11, 2007 at 8:52pm — No Comments