More on Walt and Blog Printing

Update: I just added the print css style to my blogger template, and it works just fine. Now Walt and others can print my blog in a much cleaner manner! Thanks to Bill Drew for some guidance on where to put the style tags, and to Walt for pointing Bill’s post out to me.
A few [...]

Walt, Printing, and RSS

Walt Crawford recently wrote a very interesting article about the printability of blogs. Some of what he said I generally agree with, and some of what he said made me think (ultimately a good thing, too). Here’s what I’m thinking:
Thought #1: Reasons to print a blog post:
Walt gave four very valid reasons to print [...]

Intermediate Search Engines Class

I previously blogged about the Basic Search Engines class I teach once in awhile. So, I thought I’d be thorough and also mention the Intermediate Search Engines class I do.
Both of these classes are taught for the Kansas City Metropolitan Library & Information Network (KCMLIN), a regional library training and resource sharing consortium for the [...]

Internet Activities and Changing Library Roles

I’m in the blogging mood today
Go to this page from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, and glance through the list of Internet Activities. This list includes 61 things America adults do online. It’s either terribly exciting or terribly terrifying, depending on your inclination to change and technology.
Here’s the exciting/terrifying part: most [...]

Fun Way to Market IM Reference

From the Library Marketing blog - UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries is marketing their IM reference service in a fun way. They have created stickers with the library’s IM name that are passed out to students during new student orientations and instruction sessions.
Thay are seeing students stick these stickers on their notebooks and laptops - how cool [...]

Google’s Keyhole, Maps, and Local Come Together

(found at the Unofficial google Blog):
I saw Google’s Keyhole for the first time at the Computers in Libraries conference, and thought it was pretty cool. Apparently, Google is starting to combine Google Local, Maps, and Keyhole - look at this image…
That little thought bubble thing with the address is pointing at me! Instead of getting [...]

Hennepin County has RSS!

Glenn Peterson, Web Administrator at Hennepin County Library, just sent an announcement to web4lib about their RSS feeds.
Take a look - Hennepin has done a great job of not only creating useful subject guides for content (26 of them right now), but they have also designed them well. The visual look (much like the rest [...]

Audio Content at Thomas Ford Memorial Library

Update from comments: someone asked what a p-slip was. Here’s a definition (from http://www.library.cornell.edu/tsmanual/jargon.html): “A plain piece of paper the size of a catalog card, sometimes with punched hole for use in a catalog drawer.” It’s the little piece of paper by the library computer that you can write a call number on… often, it [...]

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