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Last month, we had some great fun attending the Halifax, Nova Scotia Social Media Group Meet-up. We’re doing it a second time, and I hope anyone in town will consider joining on in for some beverage and chat.
In case you do not want to hit that link, it’s going on May 22 at the Argyle [...]
It all started because I Blogged where I should have Twittered. . . Greg wrote a post called “Stepping into Marketing“ talking about Mitch Joel presentation. And I wrote this:
I actually had Mitch in my Twitter list, but he didn’t follow me, so I took him off. I might put him back though.
Whether or not you think this [...]
off to work..
Originally uploaded by *Solar ikon*.
Ok I was tagged by Cindi and Amanda for the Passion Quilt Meme. I’m not a meme-ish sort of person — probably because anyone I tag usually does not end up doing the meme.
So, you are supposed to grab a photo from Flickr’s Creative Commons or other photo directory, [...]
I’ve had a tongue-in-cheek post-in-waiting for a while now that would look at traits I notice in online cultures as a way of understanding whether or not a particular service is for you or your library. It had been percolating, percolating, percolating. . . and then I read Greg Schwartz’s post on Managing His Own Social [...]
There have been a few, ahem, debates going around and I could make a post on each of them, but things have just been too much in my home life recently, so I’m going to chime in one on one.
MLS or non-MLS?
My favorite call on this issue is coming from Dorothea Salo, but there [...]
UPDATE: Since I’m venturing into potentially controversial territory, I thought it would be a good time to remind my readers that this is my commentary on a situation that occurred in a library in California and not necessarily the opinions of my employer. I will say that I believe we are [...]
Heather Morrison discusses what she calls an “access gap” for scholarly journals in public libraries. She claims:
The local public library will have interlibrary loan service; however, with limited staffing looking after everything from storytime for preschoolers to special services for teens, adults, seniors, and more, not to mention buying books and running the library, the [...]
One of my favorite Monty Python works, is the famous “Accountancy Shanty” coming from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. With the lyrics “It’s fun to charter an accountant and sail the wide accountant-sea,” it’s obviously a satirical look at the idiosyncracies of your friendly neighbourhood bean counter.
Five Accountant-ish Things for Librarians to Know
Well, [...]
From the Myths On My Shoulders blog, the National Film Board of Canada has opened a Twitter account.
I’m a big advocate at watching what other industries do with services to see what might work for libraries. While in its infancy, I am pretty interested to see what the Film Board will use the account [...]
Sarah Houghton-Jan, the illustrious Librarian in Black brought up the issue of ethics in libraries reminding us to post the ALA Code of Ethics on our office walls. She also points to a post by BlogJunction highlighting two other studies
Ethics are extremely important, but I am here to say that a statement of [...]
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