The ability to syndicate media and information, as well as involve people socially, make Web 2.0 tools perfect for marketing library events or services. More and more libraries are taking advantage of these cheap and easy options for connecting with patrons. Here are a few ideas for how to use Web 2.0 tools in your [...]
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A Day in the Life
It appears that librarians are posting “day in a life” time lines on their blogs this week. I read the first couple with mild interest, but as more and more have appeared, I find myself increasingly intrigued. As a non-practicing librarian, it is nice to know what a typical day entails. Here are a few [...]
Moving beyond Meebo
I came across an interesting post today on David Lee King’s blog discussing the use of LibraryH3lp in the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library website. LibraryH3lp is a chat and instant messaging platform that supports multiple users and message cues. It can also be integrated directly into the library website and/or catalog (as they [...]
Library Jobs mashup
Here is my first successful mashup. I combined the LibGib jobs feed from Twitter with the LISjobs feed and some of the listings found on LibWorm jobs and extracted geolocation info to create a map of job locations. Clicking on the title should take you to the job listing.
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**UPDATE**–it seems that Wordpress [...]
Synchronous communication
During my second semester in the SLIS program back in 2005, I took a class with Penny Peck that required us to meet in a Blackboard classroom to participate in a real time chat session. This was before Elluminate had been adopted by the school, so we were denied the use of an audio or [...]
Texting comes to libraries
Libraries seem to be doing a great job getting themselves on the SMS train. Unfortunately, I fear that they may be riding in the caboose. While many libraries have been reaching out to the new wave of texting fanatics, their initiatives may be too little, too late.
I have to admit that I [...]
Gaming in Libraries
In the article, Gaming @ Your Library, Dale Lipschultz states that, “using games to support learning is not a new idea; in fact, one might easily suggest that it is perhaps an instinctual impulse that we have been mistakenly repressing for too long.” She continues to point out how animals will mock hunt [...]
Second Life Explorations
I first played around with Second Life many years ago before companies and schools got involved. At that time, I felt that there was not much going on in Second Life, that it was a cyber desert and I just didn’t see the worth and value. There have been heated arguments for and [...]
Using Video In Libraries
If libraries want to remain relevant in this age of multimedia, they have to incorporate screencasts, other video, or media interactivity to some degree. This may be a pretty strong statement given some of the drawbacks of these mediums. However, as the web becomes more visually stunning, allowing us to absorb information in various ways [...]
