SPLAT Archive
You got Meebo in my Firefox!
You got Firefox in my Meebo!
Two great web services that taste great together.
If you use Firefox to browse the web (and why wouldn't you?) and if you use Meebo to handle IM reference and/or to IM coworkers
At parent night at my daughter's preschool this Fall, the teacher indicated that the students would have library day on Thursdays and would be able to borrow two books from the school's library and that "it is a real library, so there are fines when books are not turned in on time."
The first lesson these
When I was in Seattle the last week of September starting my MLIS graduate program with fellow SPLAT! members Dylan and Anna I lost my wallet. I quickly canceled my cards and tried to remain calm, cool and collected. This was not a perfect
time to panic. I lost my wallet on a Wednesday and was
I just came across a great site called http://liszen.com/,
which is a Library & Information Science Search Engine. This
site is a custom search engine and allows you to search over 700
library blogs. And yes I ran a search and came across our very
own SPLAT! Blog. You can even add your own
The Oct. 4 issue of USA Today has an article by Janet Kornblum called "Teens: It's Our Facebook." In the article, Kornblum describes the reaction of one teen when her parenting expert and author mom wrote "umamaluvsu" on her Facebook wall. As Tess Lippincott put it, "I definitely don't want her to be
SPLAT folks are ready and able to answer your techie questions at ILA! Stop by the west entrance of the Nampa Convention Center and get a load of Wii, eAudiobooks, MP3 players and other 2.0 tools AND get your questions answered--or just come by and say hello and play Wii with us! It's
A couple of weeks ago I received a Creative Zen because Idaho libraries will have subscriptions to NetLibrary and OverDrive, two great sites to get E Audiobooks. I wanted to share my trials of tribulations with MP3 players. Last Christmas I asked for an Ipod Nano because I heard Ada Community Library had Net Library.
I haven't posted in far too long but as I sit here with...
a) Meebo open in one of my Firefox tabs so I can be contacted through the MeeboMe widget on our library's home page (two "real" reference questions answered there last week),
b) Bloglines open in another tab, with the feeling of satisfaction