Funny Youtube Video about a Crazy Librarian

Update: Embedding did something odd, so I’m just linking for now.
I’ve never attempted embedding a Youtube video into my posts, so I’m trying that out in this post. And - this video is funny! It looks like it was made by some high school students - all about a crazy librarian who kills students that [...]

Education Institute Schedule for January

Just an FYI - the Education Institute in Canada has their January - April 2007 course calendar online. They always offer a nice variety of library-related courses, teleconferences, and webcasts. Take a peek below at January’s calendar - lots of good stuff there (and yes, I’m teaching one of the classes)!
One more FYI - Cheryl [...]

testing, one two…

Sorry - just testing. Don’t mind me!

Library Catalog Usability and a Test of CamStudio

I am playing with CamStudio, and needed to create a short screencast, so…
At the same time, I was looking at Sirsi/Dynix Horizon sites, and found something slightly amusing (to me, anyway) and thought I’d share.
Click the image to the right to watch the video (here’s the .mov version too, if the m4v version doesn’t work [...]

Great Tips on Customer Service

From the LibTalk blog, The Determinants of Delight - this is a great article! Candi talks about how to delight library customers, and has a wonderful list of ways to accomplish this:

Smile
Be really nice, all the time
Get back to them as soon as possible
Limit the times you say no
Emphasize the positive
Speak their language
Go above and [...]

Don’t Set Your MySpace Page Profile to Private!

I just saw Plainfield Public Library’s MySpace page (via Michael Stephens). Well, not really - take a look at the screenshot - their MySpace profile is set to private.
So what? Well… it’s a usability and experience thing. There will be MySpacers that want to peruse the page, see what programs the library has to offer, [...]

Web Video Cheat Sheet

Here’s a great list of video hosting sites (61 of them, to be exact). The list includes:

website name and URL
If the service offers video editing capability
the file size limit
cost
if you can keep a video private
if it requires a software download
general comments

The only other thing I’d like to see on this list is if the [...]

David King and Michael Porter Make an Announcement

A Happy announcement in the form of a one act play/conversation:
As David Lee King and Michael Porter approach one another, the air crackles with dorky electricity.
Michael: “Hey, have we met?”
David: “Ummm, yeah. Don’t you remember those Internet Librarian Conferences, or when we presented at the Seattle Public Library Staff Day last month? We went out [...]

Looking for a Web Programmer at TSCPL

Are you a web programmer? Then you might just be interested in this job ad at my library. If you’re curious, feel free to ask me more about the job!

Quintura, a Visual Search Engine

I just discovered Quintura, a new visual search engine interface (found via Robert Scoble’s blog). On the surface, it looks similar to Grokker or KartOO (two other better-known visual search engines).
You can play with Quintura’s online demo, but the real deal is downloading their Quintura Search product. It offers a visual map of searches done [...]

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