Last weekend I returned to the US with an entirely different perspective on my access to information. I had just spent the week at the PNLA Conference in Victoria, BC where connectivity was a major challenge for me.
When I've traveled in the US, Ive always been confident that hotels and convention centers will offer me
I'm grateful to Hofstra's "Ernster the Library Cat" blog for this link to a New York Times article about a new hybrid blogging/networking site called tumblr. It seems to have attracted some major media participants. May be worth a look.
Here's the link:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407EEDA143CF931A3575BC0A9669D8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
I'm grateful to Hofstra's "Ernster the Library Cat" blog for this link to a New York Times article about a new hybrid blogging/networking site called tumblr. It seems to have attracted some major media participants. May be worth a look.
Here's the link:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407EEDA143CF931A3575BC0A9669D8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
Want to let people text reference questions to your library? Now is a great time!
Wow, there are now so many services you can use for text message reference, and so many reasons to do it, I wonder why people are not doing it! First of all, almost everybody texts.
At my branch we noticed that during these tough economic times that our patrons needed one-on-one trainings to become technologically literate. So some amazing staff at the Library! at Collister (a branch of Boise Public Library) came up with this program to have the community help the community called the
Because I work at a public library, and we slow way down in August after summer reading ends, we are each taking on a research project for the month. I will be focusing on search techniques as they relate to customer service. I'm still at the beginning stages of trying to decide which subtopics to
SPLAT members Memo Cordova & Amy Vecchione will present at Reference Renaissance on August 9, 2010. Why is this awesome? Well, for one, we’ll be talking about SPLAT at one of the best reference services conference in the U.S. Second, we’re using the power of Twitter to keep you up to date and to