Monthly Archives: April 2007

RSS in Plain English 2

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 with [...]

Evidence of Change 0

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 photos [...]

Coming up for air 0

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 lot of [...]

Note to self… 0

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 you. [...]

The Customer’s Library 0

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 on the PLA [...]