Monthly Archives: April 2007

RSS in Plain English Comments

So, I’ve been working on this new blogging class that I’m co-teaching with a colleague. She’s handling the intro on what blogs are and I’m going to talk about using feeds and RSS readers (aka news readers or news aggregators), as well as say a bit about how to start a blog. My goal [...]

Evidence of Change Comments

Speaking of changes in libraries, one of the things I’ve been pushing for has finally happened…the library now has its very own Flickr account! It’s been up for a few weeks now and there should soon be a link on the library’s homepage sending people to the Flickr account. You can also see library [...]

Coming up for air Comments

The past couple of weeks have been very busy at work, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m getting the opportunity to be creative in so many different ways and I really feel like I’m making a contribution. Besides my regular reference and collection management duties, I’m also working on a [...]

Note to self… Comments

Ever find yourself somewhere without a pen and paper or your laptop to jot down a note to yourself? I find myself in that position a lot. Here’s the solution…www.jott.com. This is really amazing. You call the Jott number, leave a message, then Jott turns your voice recording into text and emails it to [...]

The Customer’s Library Comments

The Travelin’ Librarian just put up notes from a presentation called ” The Customer-Centered Library: How to stop tweaking and start doing it with new steps for 2007.” It was given by Karen Hyman, South Jersey Library Cooperative, Columbus Public Library, Columbus, NE. A pdf of the presentation is available for download [...]