Internet Librarian 2007 Presentation: Building Web 2.0 Native Library Services

October 31, 2007 – 6:48 am

The conference program says I’m speaking about designing an OPAC for Web 2.0, and I guess I am, but the approach this time is what have we learned so far? And though it’s the sort of thing only a fool would do, I’m also planning to demonstrate how to install Scriblio, a web 2.0 platform [...]

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Library 2.0 Subject Guides

October 24, 2007 – 10:25 am

Ellyssa Kroski’s Librarian’s Guide to Creating 2.0 Subject Guides is good introduction for Librarians who think know “there has to be a better way.” But why no mention of blogs and blogging tools? (I’m still really happy that when you search our catalog for something, a subject guide for that term appears (if we have [...]

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Not Just Hip

October 16, 2007 – 8:15 am

When a writer goes looking for young Turks (my words, not Scott’s), you should expect the story to include some brash quotes (writers are supposed to have a chip of ice in their hearts, after all). On the other hand, we’re librarians, so how brash can we be?
Scott Carlson’s Young Librarians, Talkin’ ‘Bout Their Generation [...]

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Banned Books Week Dilemma

October 4, 2007 – 10:33 am

Our intention is to feature “a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech,” but on this post about Holocaust denial I found myself unwilling (and unable) to link to the free, online PDF full text of David Irving’s Hitler’s War. And when we discovered it wasn’t in our [...]

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“to ascertain if the applicant is still living”

September 28, 2007 – 5:56 am

Whose Library Is It Anyway?: A Visit to the Lenox
[tags]library, libraries, humor, lennox library[/tags]

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Don’t Mistake Me (Please)

September 25, 2007 – 12:39 pm

Over at KLE’s Web 2.0 Challenge I was surprised to learn:
Both Bisson and Stephens are so excited about this concept of Web 2.0 they have not taken a good look at what they can’t do for our libraries. …with all this new technology we can not forget that what is the most important in our [...]

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Checkouts Vs. GPA?

September 25, 2007 – 9:53 am

Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian at Colgate University, posted to the IUG list with this notion today:
I’m clearing out a large group of expired student records, and wonder if anyone else has had the same idea that has occurred to me. [Our ILS] keeps track in the patron record of TOTCHKOUTs (total checkouts). At the [...]

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Building Libraries With Free Software

September 17, 2007 – 11:03 am

Sarah Houghton-Jan’s review of my LTR on open source software for libraries reminded me I wanted to blog this related piece I’d written for American Libraries.
Tim Spalding cocks his head a bit as he says it to emphasize the point: “LibraryThing.com is social software.” However we categorize it, Spalding’s baby has become a darling to [...]

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First They Ignore You, Then They Ridicule You, Then They Fight You

September 12, 2007 – 12:30 pm

It’s an aside to Kathryn Greenhill’s larger point, that all this 2.0 stuff is about a shifting power to the user, but she places L2 somewhere on Ghandi’s continuum of change between ridicule and fight.
The photo above (original by Monster) is in support of Greenhill’s larger point: control is shifting. Trains were once seen as [...]

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Launch!

September 6, 2007 – 3:09 pm

A little more than two years after I realized how (really) bad the problem was and about 18 months after I prototyped my solution, our new library website, catalog, and knowledgebase launched last week — just in time for the fall semester opening.
It’s all built on Scriblio, includes a very simple new books list that [...]

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Scratch-n-Sniff

August 24, 2007 – 5:31 am

Hey, I’m a fan of that old book smell too, can I get some scratch-n-sniff stickers?
smell, scratch-n-sniff, libraries, ebooks

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Is It That They Don’t Care? Or Just Don’t Want It From Us?

July 31, 2007 – 12:44 pm

&tJessamyn asks “do library users care about our new initiatives?” It comes from a survey done by the Wisconsin Public Library ConsortiumOn one hand, if you interpret the results literally you could make a decision to reject technology and focus on building a collection around personal enjoyment for Wisconsin residents. On the other hand, these [...]

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Presentation: Bringing The Library To The User

July 15, 2007 – 2:42 pm

I’m at AALL in New Orleans as part of a program organized by June Liptay and Alan Keely, speaking with U of R’s David Lindahl and NCSU’s Emily Lynema. From the description (see page 5 in the program):
Traditional library online catalogs are being marginalized in an increasingly complex information landscape. …Better methods are needed for [...]

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The Rarin in Librarian

July 12, 2007 – 9:37 pm

I’m going to violate my rule against linking to NYT (because) and give a shout out to this article. Not just because it quotes my friend Jessamyn, but for what it says: libraries are full of smart, hip people.
[tags]library 2.0, Jessamyn West, New York Times, libraries, hip, smart[/tags]

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Presentation: Faceted Searching and Browsing in Scriblio

June 27, 2007 – 12:01 pm

I was honored to be a panelist at the LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group presentation of “Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse.”
What is faceting? Why is it (re)emerging in use? Where can I see it in action? This program is intended to introduce the audience to facet theory, showcase implementations that [...]

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