Hanging out in the Handheld Librarian Conferences today, and I wanted to share some web tools for creating a mobile site for your library! Chris Haefele shared his work with the attendees.
Chris' slides: http://www.slideshare.net/chaefele/building-a-mobile-site-one-block-at-a-time
His Mobile Site Generator: http://www.hiddenpeanuts.com/msg/
You can use these pre-made frameworks:
http://www.lib.montana.edu/~jason/files/m/
And check out Library Anywhere, which will
The browser wars are far from over, though some have gone by the wayside, but for the most part there are strong contenders you should consider to be your top choices. This is, of course, my own personal picks, but I think you will come to agree based on the sheer number of useful applications
In an effort to connect with the freshmen in my class, I polled them about what they do with their phone, and what they do on the web. Well, all of them text and send texts, so here's the assignment I came up with.
They need to take their initials (mine would be A and V)
I am currently having an online discussion with some of my wonderful librarian friends about whether or not the newest generation of youth/young adults are the harbinger of the BOOK. What is the future of the book?
Here are some perspectives I've heard:
Stephen Abram recently posted his slides from a presentation entitled "It's 2010: 20 Technologies to Watch, and How to Cope." Even without his inimitable live comments, these slides are a goldmine of thought-provoking information, ideas, and humor. Enjoy!
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported that Stanford is offering the public a peek into its iPhone App development course. By the way, it's one-way communication, and the professor and students will not take questions from observers.
Here's the link to the article: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Wanna-Make-an-App-for-That-/20512/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
Are any
So, it looks like library camps and library related unconferences are an increasing trend: http://liswiki.org/wiki/Library_Camp There were just two in 2006, a handful in 2007, more in 2008 and then during 2009 it seems like library unconferences/library camps just exploded!
Why are they so popular? Because traditional conferences are expensive due to the planning, preparation
My film production company Blushing Potato Productions made a short film about how the staff at the Library! at Collister, a branch of Boise Public Library are actually superhereos. Enjoy!
For quite some time now there has been an online movement to show the value of librarians and library workers through a day of hitting the popular answer boards run by search engines such as Yahoo Answers, Wiki Answers and AskVille, etc.
One of the many reasons for this monthly event is to show the relevance
To Tweet or not to tweet??? Recently, there was a newspaper story saying that young people (ie. 20-somethings ) were fairly resistant to Twitter and preferred the communication options offered by cell phones. (This article said that older people tended to be more receptive to Twitter.)
So,