November 2009 Blog Posts (12)

Zooming into presentations - Zoomit, Prezi & pptPlex

In this blog post, I describe 3 different ways to zoom in and out of presentations to increase visibility, and to create a bit of action. The three tools are Zoomit, Prezi and… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on November 27, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

Creative concepts for promoting libraries

Hello everyone,

I am writing a dissertation about the creative concepts for promoting libraries. I am looking for materials and information about libraries who promote they services in unusual way e.g. using ARG (Alternate Reality games) or like the open library in Germany which was build out of beer cartons… Continue

Added by Kamila Buczek on November 20, 2009 at 10:03am — No Comments

Tonight! ISTE Webinar: Library Media Marketing Through Easy Animation

GoAnimate.com: Live Long & Animate! by gwyneth

Live Thursday! Library Media Through Easy Animation: ISTE SIGMS FREE Webinar

Thursday, December 10 at 8pm EST/7pm EST/6pm MST/5pm PST

Presenter: Gwyneth Anne Bronwynne Jones

Promoting your library media center and… Continue

Added by gwyneth jones on November 18, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Hooray for Me!

I finally buckled down and completed the 23 Things on CSLA's Web 2.0 tutorial. Now I'm conversant if not a convert. I am just old school enough that I see some of these apps as interesting and amazing, but huge time wasters......I love delicious, think Flickr is amazing, love Wordle, get blogging, still don't see the VALUE of Twitter. I will use some of the great links on my school library web page like the The British Library---WOW!

Added by Susan Cline on November 13, 2009 at 11:17pm — No Comments

Library Programs

Last night I took in a program at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library about the James Bonds films. It was hosted by Raymond Benson, who has written 9 James Bond books, and Dann Gire, the film critic from the Daily Herald newspaper.

Their commentary was great, filling us in on tidbits we would otherwise not have known. The clips from the films were also great. A refreshing change of pace instead of staying home and watching TV.

What kind of programs does your library… Continue

Added by Morgan Mandel on November 13, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Emtacl10

Remember your submission for emtacl10 in Trondheim - deadline is 15 November : http://emtacl.com

Added by Joost Hegle on November 13, 2009 at 8:09am — No Comments

Word of Mouth Marketing in Libraries - Info & Articles

Then and Now...

Faberge Shampoo started it all with their famous commercial from the 1970s. Peggy Barber and Linda Wallace nail it in their new article, "The Power of Word-of-Mouth Marketing" in the November issue of American Libraries Magazine. We wrote a post called "… Continue

Added by Text a Librarian on November 12, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

“Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services” (ETTLIS-2010), June 3-5, 2010

ETTLIS-2010

2nd International Symposium on

“Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services”

June 3-5, 2010

Venue

Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan (Near Shimla) (HP)-173215 India

Jointly Organized by

Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan (HP) – India

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida (UP) – India

Mahatma Gandhi Central Library IIT Roorki (Uttrakhand) –… Continue

Added by Shri Ram on November 9, 2009 at 3:33pm — No Comments

Sharing links with users - 8 different ways

How do you share links, resources with your library patrons? In the past, the default option would certainly be through email. There is nothing wrong with sharing links through emails, though it seems to me a more structured and organized way would be better.

But today with the rise of social networks, collaborative tools and general web 2.0 love, there are a bewildering number of online sharing options, I thought it would be useful in this post to briefly consider each class of… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on November 4, 2009 at 6:52am — No Comments

Creating custom search boxes for library use- a second look

A couple of months back , I wrote a post entitled Creating custom search boxes for library use. This is one of my top 10 most popular blog posts and also one of the posts which I'm most proud of because it is one of my few posts that I feel is pretty original.

In that post, I figured out a way to create search widgets/boxes for practically any database, which can be embedded in… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on November 4, 2009 at 6:50am — No Comments

Viewing research alerts - full text within Google reader

Summary

Google reader has introduced two interesting features, "share" which allows uers to share interesting feed items to users who follow you on Google reader (or to the shared item page) and the newer… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on November 4, 2009 at 6:49am — No Comments

Some email ideas for library use - LibX and Xobni

Haven't had much time to blog this weekend, as I was busy running a pilot survey for my Phd (more about that in the future), but I will just share 2 wild/random ideas I have about email.