Testing Performancing

Update: the automatic Technorati tags didn’t work. I’ll have to look into that some more…
I am testing out Performancing, which just released a blog editor / firefox extension (found through Steven Cohen over at Library Stuff). It’s pretty cool! Take a look at it in the first image - that’s me starting this blog post.
As [...]

David’s Current 2006 Speaking Schedule

Update…
April 19: Blogs, Wikis, and Emerging Trends: Web 2.0, Kansas City Library Consortium User’s Conference
April 21: Getting Along with Techie Staff, OPAL
April 21: Introduction to Library Resources, Gregg Klice Community Center
April 24, into June: Basics of Library Website Management, 6 week online course for The Education Institute
April 29: Remembering our Past: Creating the Kansas City [...]

Building a Cool Children’s Website

My library is in the process of planning a new, hip children’s website… and I thought some of you might find our plans interesting. So - go check out our Request for Quotation (RFQ) that I posted today.
We think there’s some pretty cool stuff there for kids - I’d love to hear what others think!

ALA and Speaking

Jenny Levine posted her experiences with speaking at ALA and PLA. I’ve had two similar experiences:
1. Spoke at ALA, wasn’t a member. Luckily, my library paid my way, so I had airfare and hotel funding. But ALA was terribly strict about my non-member status - I could only attend the exhibit hall for one day [...]

Book Publisher Looking to the Future

Update to the update: never mind - I figured it out.

Update: for some odd reason, I can’t seem to make a direct link to the blog post… the link to the actual blog is below - anyone know the direct link? Thanks!
I thought this was cool: Working Smart: The Death of Traditional Book Publishing.
Michael Hyatt [...]

Yahoo buys del.icio.us

Wow. Double wow. del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!
Yahoo now owns two of the hottest sites on the planet - del.icio.us and flickr.
2006 should be an extremely interesting year!
yahoo del.icio.us web2.0

Reading OCLC’s Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), Parts 3, 4, 5, and Conclusion

More notes while reading through Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005).
Part 3: The Library Brand:
The one thing that stood out to me is the top three criteria respondents use for deciding which electronic information source to use: 1. provides worthwhile information; 2. Provides free information; and 3. Based on ease of use.
I think we [...]

Reading OCLC’s Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), Parts 1 and 2

I’m reading OCLC’s Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005) . I highly recommend reading this! Here are a collection of quotes, numbers, my thoughts, etc. - taken as I’m reading. Hope you find it useful.
Introduction:
“Users are not aware of the electronic resources libraries make freely available.” Wow. Many libraries hide them under the phrase [...]

SJCPL’s Subject Guide Wiki

Michael and Maire posted about their library’s awesome Subject Guide wiki. And awesome it is! It is easily accessible from their library’s main page, and already has 17 subjects listed (last Friday there were three, so those librarians are busy!). And nowhere on the website is the word “Wiki” mentioned, which is great - the [...]

Why Library 2.0?

I’m seeing lots of posts about the concept of Library 2.0 - how it’s about serving our customers, how it’s not about technology, etc. Interesting stuff. However - that part about Library 2.0 not really being about technology? Yes and no.
No: Technology is really just one of many tools to get at the heart of [...]

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