Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 31st, 2005 1 Comment »
I’ve been working on doing analysis of our library’s database subcriptions and have been looking for a tool that would tell me where our database coverage overlaps. Not fulltext coverage, I use Serials Solutions for that and it works great. What I really want to know is if one database indexes the same journals as [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 30th, 2005 1 Comment »
I’ve just discovered another reason why I like Wordpress. I can actually get rid of comment spam. It is so nice to be able to get rid of the junk attaching itself to my blog with one quick click. I’m wondering why the comment spam filters built in to Wordpress 1.5 didn’t catch it in [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 26th, 2005 3 Comments »
Carol Cooke at Technogeekery for librarian has
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 26th, 2005 No Comments »
I had marked on my calendar that I wanted to attend the Dynix seminar “Issues and Opportunities in Web Site Analytics for Libraries” this week. Unfortunately, I got bogged down with piles and piles of stuff that had accumulated while I was gone to Computers in Libraries. I was pretty annoyed that I missed this [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 26th, 2005 2 Comments »
Information Wants to be Free has a great post about podcasting in education. The post discusses the benefits of podcasting to different learning styles especially for distance education. Speaking from personal experience, podcasting and screencasting can really enhance the educational experience. I obtained both my MLS and MS in Information Management via online programs over [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 19th, 2005 1 Comment »
I found this great set of interview about how people are using podcasting and other digital audio technologies. The list includes a couple of interview of librarians including Sherri Vokey, remote services librarian University of Nevada - Las Vegas (http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/schwagbag/). Definately worth checking out if you are interested in what people are doing with podcasting [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 18th, 2005 2 Comments »
The only presentation I went to yesterday afternoon was “Building Communities in the Palm of your Hand” which was terrific session. The presenter talked about a variety of handheld devices from PDAs and Smartphones to tablets. She did a great job of demonstrating present and future applications of handheld devices in libraries. The presentation was [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 17th, 2005 No Comments »
The presentation today on Wikis was awesome! The examples of the Star Trek wiki and wikipedia gave the people in the presentation a good idea of what wikis are about. I loved it when the presenter changed a part of the Star Trek wiki and within fifteen minutes it changed back. (You should never just [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 17th, 2005 No Comments »
This morning I went to a good presentation by K. Matthew Dames about Social networking software. The presentation provided an overview of various hardware and software used to support social networking. Below are my notes from the presentation.
Hardware
MP3 players
Audio books
Audio reserves
Gaming consoles
Portability
smaller
Smart phones
Treo 650
PDAs
Software
Browsers
Firefox
Safari
Embedded RSS reader in the next version
Pluck - Integrates with IE
Del.icio.us - [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 17th, 2005 No Comments »
Okay so yesterday I got to meet up with a couple other Mac geeks (Aaron and Michael) at CIL. Aaron showed me this really neat thing in the Mac called Expose that lets you set up certain portions of the screen to do different things. So the left top corner of my screen shows me [...]
