Mashups and Subject Guides

I just had an interesting thought about library websites and mashups. Look at Wikipedia’s definition of a mashup:
“A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.”
… and it goes on …
“Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a [...]

Subject Guides and Newspapers

The Tahlequah Daily Press (a newspaper in Oklahoma) used of my library’s Subject Guide articles as a source for one of their articles! How cool is that?
But even cooler - this is one example of what happens when you put original content out on the web. Your content might just get used.
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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 [...]

Manga at the Library

How many libraries can say they have a manga page? With links directly connected to your library catalogs?
By no means are these classics … but they are what a segment of our customers want. So my real question to you - are you using your website to point customers to content?

Internet Activities and Changing Library Roles

I’m in the blogging mood today
Go to this page from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, and glance through the list of Internet Activities. This list includes 61 things America adults do online. It’s either terribly exciting or terribly terrifying, depending on your inclination to change and technology.
Here’s the exciting/terrifying part: most [...]

Hennepin County has RSS!

Glenn Peterson, Web Administrator at Hennepin County Library, just sent an announcement to web4lib about their RSS feeds.
Take a look - Hennepin has done a great job of not only creating useful subject guides for content (26 of them right now), but they have also designed them well. The visual look (much like the rest [...]