Review of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District’s Website

This time around, I’m reviewing the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District’s website. If you’re interested on the background of my reviews or past reviews, please see my first one.
Website at a Glance

Hits:
Great visual design and navigation, nice and useful Info Guides, catalog and webiste are blended together, highlighting some Info Guides on the main page.

Further [...]

Actual Reference (not virtual)

Aaron Schmidt at walking paper posted about IM yesterday, and made some points that actually relate, in a way, to what I was saying yesterday about the website as a destination.
Aaron’s post focused on IM reference - how IM reference is still very much a reference question, just like someone walking up to the desk, [...]

Website as Destination

I just saw a job posting at Washington University for an extremely cool-sounding job: the Director of the Digital Library. And that got me thinking… thinking about how we as librarians view our websites. Is the library website a tool to support the physical library’s activities, resources, and services, or is the library website an [...]

Google Blog Search Has Arrived

Check this out - Google Blog Search. It’s just what it says it is - “Find blogs on your favorite topics.”
How does it work? Well… just like Google! You search just like you’d normally do with Google. There are a couple of differences between this and the normal Google:

There’s a date after the title of [...]

Tech Tuesday Teleconferences

I’m pretty psyched to be taking part in the Education Institute Tech Tuesday teleconferences that have been created by “the Partnership” - an organization made up of the the Executive Directors of the British Columbia Library Association, the Library Association of Alberta, the Ontario Library Association and the Saskatchewan Library Association.
Here’s a list of some [...]

Reading Lots of Blogs

Meredith, in her Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors, says “I don’t know how those of you who read more than 200 blogs manage to do it! I can barely keep up with 120 blogs (many of which I rarely read in their entirety). I guess there is a different between subscribing to a [...]

Easy way to explain RSS

Just saw this post this morning.
I think describing RSS as “automated web surfing” is a pretty good description - what do you think?

Cell Phones and Rock Concerts

I just attended Kansas City’s Rock the Light VI concert - it was fun! Some highlights:

The bands on the main stage - they rocked
The satellite stage bands (I was in one of them) Go here for more pics of my day
Getting free tickets (complimentary tickets for bands playing on the satellite stages)
The venue - Starlight [...]