Thanks to twitter friends @tacanderson and @LGM1 I learned about this great blog post - the 12 new rules of working you should embrace today. A lot of my friends are techie types so they generally embrace new technologies and ideas too.
I love this post because it clearly shows how technology has changed our
At yesterday's joint LiLI/SPLAT meeting, a few younger SPLATters were mystified when many of us broke into song, waving Coca-Cola cans. Alas! It appears that "I'd like to teach the world to sing" is losing some of its stature as a cultural icon...
As SPLAT's self-appointed "geezer," I'm posting a couple
During the PNLA preconference on digital natives we watched the video clip of teens and twenties making suggestions. One of their ideas was to deliver books through the mail like NetFlix does for movies. I saw several eye-rolls and heard a few "yeah right" comments. Most of the folks
Did you know that you can use Wikipedia to direct web traffic to you? Long over are the days of information hoarding, and putting information on Wikipedia about your local and unique collections is one more way to disseminate!!
This is especially helpful for your locally oriented special collection, or books that you have about your
SPLAT rushed in to PNLA (in beautiful Post Falls, ID) this morning to do a presentation on "Creative Outreach". 6 of us - Amy, Anna, Memo, Ruth, Stephanie, and Tammy - talked about methods of creative outreach and different things we're doing in our libraries along that vein. Later today I'll post the links to
I am so excited to discover a new search engine that actually might be better than Google. Shocking I know but see for yourself. My coworker Max showed this site to me today and I was so impressed I had to blog about it. Cuil is actually an old Celtic word for knowledge and
One of my Facebook Friends is Jim Milles of the SUNY Buffalo law school. This week, he's attending a conference on computer-assisted legal instruction. Jim is using Twitter during the conference sessions, so I'm receiving a steady stream of interesting observations and ideas.
Here's an example:
"#calicon08: FSU survey: 82% of students use