Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 9th, 2004 No Comments »
Library Toolbar Lust
I've been lusting after Stanford's Library Toolbar ever since I saw it on Librarian in Black
last week. I can't believe that someone hasn't thought of this before.
Personally, I would love to have one to use with our library's
resources. (Then again I'm a tech geek.) So, I asked a couple of our
student workers what [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 9th, 2004 No Comments »
Your Research Coach
There is an interesting post over at Beyond the Job about a
project sponsored by ACRL called “Your Research Coach”.
Your Research Coach is a program for academic librarians seeking
assistance with research and scholarly projects that can lead to
publication or presentations. It helps by matching them with an
experienced “coach”, who can offer advice, support and [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 9th, 2004 No Comments »
Near death by floppy
Today
I was out at the Norlin Library on the CU Boulder campus to teach the
first day of a two-day seminar on XML. I showed up with my materials
including a floppy disc for each student so they could get some files
from me and have a place for them to store their work and [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 8th, 2004 No Comments »
Instant Messager Challenges
I saw this post over at Walking Paper
and thought it was worth sharing.
A colleague sent me a sad email regarding Instant Messaging at her
library. Evidently she was experimenting with it, hoping to increase
communication within her library. The IT department found the IM
software on her computer and took it off. The gall!
While
this might [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 8th, 2004 No Comments »
College Libraries: the Long Goodbye?
There is a great article that I spotted on Confessions of a Mad Librarian
that is from the Chronicle of Higher Education in which Dennis Dillon
from the libraries at the University of Texas at Austin talks about the
future of libraries and books. Although the author of Confessions of a
Mad Librarian isn't sure [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 4th, 2004 No Comments »
I have to get a tablet PC
I'm going back over my notes from Internet Librarian, looking for
something I remember seeing at the conference. The problem is my handwriting is so bad I
can't find the darn thing. It defeats the whole point of taking notes.
Now if I had a tablet maybe I could convert things to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 4th, 2004 No Comments »
Sent off at last
After two years of hard work and two months of agonizing I finally sent
off my manuscript to Library Hi Tech today. I don't know what my
problem has been with this thing. The writing has been done for a
couple months. I just spent all this time agonizing over where to send
the thing and [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 4th, 2004 No Comments »
Link Resolvers Include GoogleScholar Target
Well, I just was reading my list of updates to our OpenURl link resolver software this month and discovered that GoogleScholar
has been included as a new target in this month's update. Wow! I guess
I should have expected it, but that was quick. Maybe the vendors are
actually starting to pay attention to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 2nd, 2004 No Comments »
NeedleSearch is neat!
Oooh! I learned about NeedleSearch at
Internet Librarian this year and
have been playing with it. I just discovered that I can make it work
with our catalog. It just does a basic keyword search but still. It is
so cool. The reason it works is because I've set up an external form to
search our catalog which [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 2nd, 2004 No Comments »
RSS Feeds for Journals
Both Catalogablog and the Librarian in Black
recently had posts about RSS feeds being made available for journals.
This raises the question of “If RSS feeds are being made available then
should libraries provide access to them and how?”
One options
which Catalogablog asked about was adding links in the library's
catalog. This assumes that the catalog serves [...]
