PLA Blog – The Official Blog of the Public Library Association:Communication Skills for Managers David Orenstein’s presentation, in his own words, was a “little schizophrenic.” Schizophrenic or not, he had some excellent information to share that he’s garnered over several years of management experience.

The Shifted Librarian: What I Took Away from the GLS Conference The most obvious, glaring thing is that librarians (in general) have absolutely no clue about what is going on in this area. Academia is only now starting to do more than just study it, but it’s not even on our radar. I’ve noted before [...]

RSS4Lib:: Browser Toolbar with RSS Feeds is a great idea. The example only works in IE/win but I’ve heard doing one for Firefox isn’t that difficult. Definately on the “todo” list after I get the new library website up.

Jenny is posting a lot of notes. Not as good as being there but they’re worth reading ;->. The Shifted Librarian: GLS01: Henry Jenkins on Pop Culture and Learning The Shifted Librarian: GLS02: James Paul Gee on New Paradigms for Learning The Shifted Librarian: GLS03: Second Life and User Creation The Shifted Librarian: GLS04: Games, [...]

Lots of great posts from conferences to read. LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Top Tech Trends – Sunday LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Leo Klein’s Top Technology Trends LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Karen’s Uber-Trend

LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Sarah Houghton’s Top Technology Trends LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Marshall Breeding’s Top Technology Trends LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Thomas Dowling’s Non-Trends From The Trailing Edge Definately thought provoking.

Pop-up vulnerability found in major browsers | CNET News.com According to Secunia, the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer for Mac, Safari, iCab, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox and Camino are all vulnerable. Opera 7 and 8 are affected, but not 8.01, according to Opera. Basically, all you have to do is not enter information in [...]

Boing Boing: DRM apologist circumvents DRM Michael Gartenberg has grown so frustrated with the DRM on Microsoft Reader files that it would appear he has violated the DMCA in order to strip the files of DRM. He only wanted to read the files he had legitimately purchased.

Boing Boing: Canada’s DMCA dissected On the heels of the introduction of Canada’s Bill C-60, a Made-in-Canada version of the DMCA, Michael Geist has posted several long, thoughtful blog posts about the bill’s effects on different interests: search engines, ISPs, and P2P users…

Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book: Many more marketing materials Found on Neat New Stuff on the Net: Marketing & PR from the Mid-Hudson Library System. The site includes marketing templates, how-to’s, web links and demographic info for librarians. Enjoy!