Edublog Award winners

Kathryn Greenhill writes about the 2007 Edublog Award winners on her blog, Librarians Matter…

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Connecting the dots

Good post on Infoblog about best Web 2.0 practices and the library catalog.  The idea of cross-promotion within the library by way of library catalog is a good use of Web 2.0 technologies to manufacture interest in the library and what we are doing.

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Value-added libraries

Today I have been thinking a lot about book discussions and libraries, particularly academic libraries.  My library is sponsoring a faculty book discussion next week, around the book The View From the Center of the Universe, and it got me thinking about why my library doesn’t do more book discussion projects.  Time is, of course, [...]

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Successful blogging

Meredith Farkas writes about successful blogging over at Information Wants to Be Free:
“What makes your blog a success depends on what your goals for it are. Why do you blog? Looking at the responses I saw in the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere, I didn’t see anything about having the most subscribers, having the highest Google [...]

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Google Gears

Jenny Levine describes the Google application for offline access to the Google newsreader on her blog. In a nutshell,
“Basically, Google Gears is code that anyone can embed in their online tools to make them available offline. It’s integrated into Google Reader via a one-time install that doesn’t even require you to restart your browser. Once [...]

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More social networking blogs

A couple of social networking blogs that caught my attention tonight. One is from a colleague over at the University of Rochester who actually attended my workshop last week. Cynthia’s blog is Long time listener, first time caller – I love the title! Cynthia works in IT at the library and is [...]

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Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis @ RRLC

Today I teach the Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis workshop at RRLC in Rochester.  Participants are from the Rochester, NY region and come from public, special, academic, school and medical libraries.  Tell me what you hope to gain or learn from this workshop!

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Good wiki news

It appears that wikis are changing the way we communicate. Although not a revelation to many of us (and, dare I mention, wikis are not revolutionary, its the way we use them that is new and different) , the mainstream media is picking up this theme and running with it. I love the [...]

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An action plan for Library 2.0

Laura Cohen has written an article in this month’s American Libraries magazine about “A Manifesto for Our Times”, in regards to the posting she wrote on her blog, Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective. The post is about her “rallying cry” to librarians embracing the 2.0 ethic and how Library 2.0 is a “…response [...]

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Emerging library technologies in S.C. and elsewhere…

Michael Stephens is writing a follow-up to his Web 2.0 article which was in last year’s Library Technology Reports.  In it, he describes a recent report written by the director of South Carolina’s statewide library services, which, “…details libraries’ and librarians’ use of emerging tools such as blogs and IM before and after statewide technology [...]

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