Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
Ed Vielmetti has an interesting post about library related apps for the iPhone and Open Worldcat. He suggests that it would be great if there were an iPhone specific app for Open WorldCat. My reaction is “hell yeah”.
At UH we are thinking about building an Open WorldCat app for iPhones and iPod Touches. This is [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Amelia Abreu a former colleague of mine at UH interviewed me for LibGig. Amelia asked some really good questions that I haven’t been asked before in relation to my career and success. Doing the interview was fun because I got to talk a little bit about how I became a librarian as well as what [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Jason Griffey has a great post on the ALA TechSource blog about teaching others about new technologies and the gaps in what different librarian know about technologies. Several things struck me about Jason’s post. The first was Jason’s and several other geek librarian folks unending willingness to share their knowledge and experiences with others. This [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 30th, 2008 No Comments »
The last week I’ve spent a significant amount of my time doing clean up work, documentation and policy writing. Part of this is that the staff of Web Services has grown from 3 when I started 3 years to 5 1/2 currently. While that is a great thing, it means that there is a great [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
It has been interesting to read and hear various people’s reactions to the Top Tech Trends panel from this year’s ALA. It is sort of weird having been a participant but not being physically there and seeing people’s comments. Many of the things people mentioned in their comments (the audio issues) I noticed while participating [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Watching and participating in the Social Software Showcase from a distance is really neat. Particularly watching Griffey in action! My biggest disappointment was that only 2 people showed up for the virtual discussion :( . I can understand why, hey the discussion was on a Saturday. I’m hoping that more people show up for the [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Okay let me explain for those of you who are already VERY confused and keep sending emails asking if I’ll be at ALA or not.
NO I’m not attending ALA in person. I made a promise to my husband so I’m staying home this year. However, I am participating in both the Social Software Showcase and [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
OCLC has a bunch of really neat tools, in particular, the WorldCat Affiliate Tools which allow libraries to use data and services from OCLC in more meaningful ways. Some of my favorites that I’ve been playing with include
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Many of these tools started out as OCLC Research Works projects, which has a few tools I feel [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
So as part of the Social Software Showcase this year, I’m hosting two virtual discussions via TalkShoe.
I’m a relatively new TalkShoe user. I’ve participated in Greg Schwartz’s Uncontrolled Vocabulary podcast recording once, but never hosted a TalkShoe event myself. As a result, I’ve been trying to get a sense of the instruction/directions I might need [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
My co-author Jason called me last night to tell me that copies of our book “Library Bloggng” had arrived on his doorstep. YAY!! At long last! Finally! Unfortunately my copies haven’t appeared yet so I’ll just have to link to Jason’s pic below instead of a photo of me doing the happy dance in front [...]
