Library vs Amazon

Just saw Libraries: How they stack up from OCLC. It has lots of good comparisons of libraries to other “stuff” - here are a few good ones:
U. S. public library cardholders outnumber Amazon customers by almost 5 to 1 (Amazon - 30 million customers; public library cardholders - 148 million).
Amazon ships around 1,500,000 items per [...]

Just Playing

Sitting here with Karen from Lawrence Public, explaining blogs and websites! Cool!

I’m Getting Things Done

Just bragging a little… here’s proof I currently have an EMPTY INBOX! I have recently read Getting Things Done by David Allen.
I’m apparently not the only librarian reading through this book. I actually don’t remember where I heard about it - some blog, most likely. David Allen, the author of the book, has a website [...]

Blogging Makes You Smarter!

Take a look at this article, “Brain of a Blogger (found via Darlene Fichter’s link blog).
In this article, two MD types argue that writing a blog is good for your brain. Why?
1. Blogs can promote critical and analytical thinking.
2. Blogging can be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking.
3. Blogs promote analogical thinking.
4. [...]

Internet Librarian 2005 and Public Libraries

Check out the hip Internet Librarian 2005 Conference. The Advance Program is out, so you can check out the many dynamic programs taking place at this year’s conference.
I’m not sure if this is a first or not (but it’s cool nonetheless) - this year’s conference has a Public Libraries track! Personally, I think of this [...]

More “Things you can do with RSS”

Glenn at Hennepin County Library commented on my post about RSS:
“Timely post! We just added a customizable library events feed this week at http://www.hclib.org/pub/events/. You can subscribe to events at your local library, events by age group, events by type (book sales, storytime, multicultural) or any combination.”
Hennepin County Library’s website is COOL. They do a [...]

Aligning Images in Blog Posts… Please

And now for a little lesson in HTML. The image on the right is a blog post (good blog, too, by the way). Notice how it’s arranged - first a chunk of text, then an image, then another chunk of text. Lots of bloggers post this way - they insert an image into the text [...]

Google Maps and Changing Weather

Just found this funny. I was using Google Maps to map out a meeting I’m attending tomorrow. I clicked on the Sattelite option (cause it’s cool) and started browsing around, to see if I recognized anything (I did - even found a branch library of ours). But in the process, I discovered two … [...]

15 things you can do with RSS

Update: changing the link to Tim Yang’s wiki about “things you can do with RSS.” There’s now 39 things you can do with RSS, and I’ll bet that list continues to grow. Check it out!
Found this on Tim Yang’s Geek Blog: 15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but [...]

Podcasting Advertisements

I’m going through junk mail right now. I get the BSW Professional Audio Gear catalog, probably because my library buys audio equipment from time to time. Anyway, check this link out on their website (also in the printed catalog). It’s a little section on podcasting, complete with a little article on podcasting and three “Podcasting [...]

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