The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn’t restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.
I forgot to mention that I’m at home this week. My library actually closed early last week because of bad weather. Good thing about being at home – feeding the addiction. Bad thing about being at home – no routine means I forget to post. So here’s a last one for the year. Regular posting [...]
manybooks.net contains more than 10,000 free eBooks formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, eBookWise-1150, or Symbian cellphone
Peter Scott’s Library Blog
I still love reading on PDA.
The Media Drop: Newspapers with RSS: A List
I’ve compiled what I believe to be a solid list of U.S. newspapers that offer RSS feeds. It is sorted alphabetically, and I’m still noting state designations on some of them.
Newspapers are a good place to start when telling someone about syndication. All of the headlines are [...]
TechnoBiblio: Intrastructure – yeah, that is what I meant to say
Doesn’t any of this make ILS vendors worried? Hey – what’s that on the horizon? The Four Horsemen of the Obsolescence – Open Standards, Modularity, Commodity Hardware, and Frustrated User Base.
We can only hope.
LIScareer keeps offering great information and advice for both sides of the hiring process.
The Role of RSS in Science Publishing:
Syndication and Annotation on the Web
NPG’s interests in RSS extend well beyond the production of RSS feeds. A new server-side application that has been developed by NPG is Urchin [35]—an open-source aggregator designed to aggregate and filter RSS feeds and other data sources.
I find the filtering ability interesting, if [...]
LIScareer News: The Librarian’s Career Guidebook is now available!
Are you trying to break into a career in library science or improve your current position? In The Librarian’s Career Guidebook, 63 information professionals from diverse positions, workplaces, and regions discuss a variety of career issues and offer advice to prospective librarians, MLS students, and librarians in [...]
The Shifted Librarian: Making the Most of the Blogosphere is the abbreviated version of Jenny’s talk at the Internet Librarian conference. Instead of just throwing up her slides, she’s written it out like an essay so it makes sense.
Favorite quote:I think we’re ready for library blogging 2.0.
A must-read.
Library Stuff
It’s not such a far fetch then for librarians to be embracing weblogs and RSS technology because it is makes our finding, filtering, and presenting of information better and more efficient.
Absolutely!
The closed nature of the system has been a concern for some librarians in regards to the new Google Scholar. In The magic that makes Google tick – ZDNet UK Insight, some of the processes that Google goes through when indexing and searching webpages are explained.
Thunderbird – Reclaim Your Inbox
Thunderbird gives you a faster, safer, and more productive email experience. We designed Thunderbird to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. Read on to find out more about the reasons why you should use Thunderbird as your mail client and RSS [...]
gotomedia : goto guides are forms that provide website project management guidelines.
Marketing Before Opening San José’s Dual-Purpose Library examines the myriad of marketing plans that a marketing team undertook in order to plan the grand opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, the “only co-managed, city-Âacademic library in the nation.”
Open-ILS.org. is information central for the development effort of an open source Intregrated Library System (ILS), named Evergreen. This software is being developed and maintained by the Georgia Public Library Service for use by the Georgia Library PINES Program, a consortium of 249 public libraries. This software can be downloaded for free, and anyone can [...]
Brushtail is a open source intranet suitable for public libraries. It is released under the GPL public license.
Another Reason why Open Source Software Rocks
This is what I love about open source, just how quick things can happen. The other day someone dropped a note to the Koha mail-list asking about a link to Amazon from Koha. I then mentioned a link to OpenWorldCat would be a nice option, if there were no [...]
“Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue” is a fantastic primer for geeks, lawyers and civilians on the copyfight available under a Creative Commons (non-commercial, share-alike) license.