I was looking at my blog stats today and started thinking about RSS (really simple syndication for anyone who doesn't know – a technology that allows you to use an external source – either your e-mail client or a web site or a piece of software or whatever) to track your favourite sites. So, if […]
Google will soon be releasing their own take on a Wikipedia-style of information resource – Google Knols (screenshot). Some of the significant differences will be: named authors (who can choose to receive a portion of ad revenue for the “knol” pages they write) instead of Wikipedia’s anonymous author model. The site will allow multiple “knols” […]
Following up nicely on yesterday's post about Yahoo Answers! (with its passing compliment of Ask MetaFilter), I see today that a MetaFilter user has taken the time to compile and categorize a master list of book-related questions from Ask MetaFilter in Wiki format. Called ReadMe, I especially like that the first question listed on the […]
Don't worry – it's not because it's going to replace us anytime soon – it's because it's an incredibly crappy reference tool which is (unfortunately) also one of the most widely used on the Net, second only to Wikipedia. The blockbuster success of Yahoo! Answers is all the more surprising once you spend a few […]
This list is focused mostly on the Internet and technology as things that librarians are better at (rather than librarians successfully utilizing these tools beyond what normal users might do – he says, typing on a blog) but it’s still a lot of food for thought. To be honest, I think it wouldn’t be hard to make a […]
If you're a librarian in Regina, live nearby or are going to be back in town for the holidays, feel free to join us for a Christmas gathering on Friday December 14 from 5pm until whenever at Monarch's Lounge in the Hotel Saskatchewan. If you're on Facebook, full details are available here.
I was asked to teach a four week “Intro To Computers” course for the month of November at the Weyburn Public Library, one of two city branches in our region, while they are temporarily short-staffed. Last week was my final class so I thought I'd put up the outlines and some thoughts in case that's […]
John M., who knows his stuff from both sides of the coin, having been an IBM web developer before beginning library school, has written a post entitled “Eight Laws of Library Technology” that's worth a read.This is a topic that's in my head a lot having recently been introduced to Evergreen, an open source ILS […]
Six Ideas That Will Change the World(I also fixed the broken link in yesterday's post if anybody wants to see my paper and presentation on e-branch services for public libraries. Thanks to John M. for (gently) pointing out the mistake! )
I made a somewhat cryptic reference to a special project I'd been given in a previous post on My 10 Favourite Things About My New Job. At the time, I said “I'm not going to talk too much about it here yet but I've been given a special project to work on that is about […]
