Copyright vs Creative Commons on Library Websites

I was just looking at Nashville Public Library’s website - very attractive site! They redesigned last year, and now have a great website, full of web 2.0-ish goodness.
And then I saw this in their footer: “Copyright © 2006 Nashville Public
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One Way to Improve ALA

Aaron Dobbs has a great idea or two on improving ALA, so he created a wiki called the Improve ALA Wiki.
Go check it out and contribute!

ALA is Videoblogging!

Some of you probably know I like to play with video once in a while… well, apparently ALA does, too! They now have a videoblog, called AL Focus. Very cool, indeed. Jenny Levine has a bit more info about the videoblog.
Now I need to update my presentation I’m giving at ALA about videoblogs…

A Blog from Britannica Should Know Better (or, Gorman is blogging?)

I’m sorry. It’s just so hard to not write about this! If Gorman were a mainstream celebrity, and I was, say, Jay Leno, I’m be lampooning him heartlessly on late night tv. But I digress…
So… MG is blogging. (Reader: Hmm… didn’t he coin the term “blog people” a couple years ago about those people who [...]

My Twitter Presentation - Part of the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase

(update - the BIGWIG sites seem to be down, but there are updated links to both twitter presentations. Enjoy!)
I was asked to participate in the first ever BIGWIG Social Software Showcase “unconference.” (site seems to be down). What is the Showcase, you ask? From the LITA blog: “LITA BIGWIG (Blogs, Wikis, and Social Software IG) [...]

Labels - Consistency and Context

I’ve been pondering website labels lately… (boy, that David - he’s truly a geek!). No really - we’re going through a major website overhaul right now, and we’re to the point where we’re looking at labels (ie., does “Databases” really mean anything to our visitors?).
And so here are a few real-world examples of labels [...]

Topeka Has IM

My library has just started two things, really:

IM reference! (Yippie!)
Using the Meebo Me widget

We have wanted to begin IM reference for over a year at least. One of the cool things about being the Digital Branch Manager at this library is that the library as a whole is excited about new ways to reach out [...]

Another Cool Person at ALA

David Free is moving to ACRL! He’s going to be the editor of College and Research Libraries news. Why is this neat? David (besides being a great dude) understands emerging trends… for example, he originally announced his new job via twitter, and then today he told me about it via Google Talk. This is sure [...]

OZSDUG Meeting and Demo of Rome

The Gordian Knot blog recently mentioned the OZSDUG (OZarks SirsiDynix Users Group) meeting that took place on June 5th… I attended the meeting - here are my notes:
First up, a SirsiDynix Sales Rep answered a list of pre-prepared questions:

Question - Can we trust SirsiDynix promises? Answer - “No.”
The company that bought Sirsi told them to [...]

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