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I am very pleased to announce that, along with some great players (namely Craig and Jon), Halifax is going to have a podcamp on January 25th. The even more interesting news (for librarydom) is that it will be hosted at the Alderney Gate Library with support from MPOW.
So. . . you might have some questions? [...]
After seredipitously encountering an Search Engine Optimization (SEO) victory (my wife searched for events happening on a major street in my city and our events page turned up #1), I’m feeling pretty good about the library website. That does not mean that we cannot improve however, so I thought I’d blog about it a bit.
Now, [...]
As a big advocate of laptops in public libraries as a way to engage community, it was a no-brainer that I would experiment with some of the latest sub-notebook class of computers, such as the Everex Cloudbook or ASUS EEE PC. The obvious advantages would include:
Reduced costs: you can pretty much buy anywhere from 3-5 [...]
Yesterday, Kelli Wooshue (our Reference Department Manager) and I did a 3 1/2 hour CE accredited tutorial on Current Awareness tools for Web 2.0 for the Canadian Health Libraries Association Conference. The whole whack of materials is available on the course wiki including a, erm, “colourful” Meebome widget for my IM account (i did a [...]
On Tuesday, May 27th I will be hosting a CE accredited workshop on Web 2.0 for the Canadian Health Libraries Association conference. I am very excited, and the agenda is pretty much set in stone.
One of the things I have been struggling with is whether I should bother to explain Twitter in any depth. I [...]
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 [...]
I love the idea of recommendation services like LibraryThing, Bibliophil and Books iRead. The main reason I like these services is because of their potential to identify items for me that I may never encounter on my own. You have to accept that I am a) a busy parent with little time [...]
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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