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.
LibrarianInBlack: Library Websites and Usability
Laura Solomon (webmaster for the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library) conducted a usability survey of Ohio public library websites, using Jakob Nielsen’s usability criteria. Her study, “Sinking or Swimming: The State of Web Sites in Ohio’s Public Libraries,” shows that many libraries haven’t focused enough attention on putting the information [...]
The Tagomatic – Have You Tagged It?
It’s like Amazon reccomendations on a wider scale. Valuable for those classic reference questions.
David Walker: RSS Creator
A system that leverages SFX and Metalib to create RSS feeds for any journal or newspaper indexed and abstracted in a library’s subscription databases.
Watch the demo (flash). Only then can you truly understand how cool this is.
MPOW has guests fill out a short form when they use one of the computers (students, faculty and staff have their own accounts). I just signed in a new freshman and on my way back to the desk I saw him actually reading the form. It just struck me as strange because at his age [...]
Copyright Expiration Flowchart
Another instant messaging service, great.
Google Talk is actually different from AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! in that since it’s based on Jabber it can be used to communicate with other jabber-based services. Also, it works with your Gmail account (email me if you want an invite) so it’s another service without another username and [...]
Making An RSS Feed is a set of instructions for hand-coding a feed fir those who don’t have software to do it for them.
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: The Institutional Repository, the Author & the Academy
A few weeks ago, I placed a peer-reviewed preprint in SFU’s D-Space called The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Implications and Opportunities for Resource Sharing and sent a note about the article to a few of the listservs I participate in. Within [...]
Boing Boing: Nobel economist on harm lurking in copyright monopolies
Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel-laureate economist who has advised the US government on its copyright and patent trade policies and served as Senior VP of the World Bank. In a stirring editorial in the Pakistan Daily Times, Stiglitz talks about the economic irrationality that arises [...]
I ran off and joined the Carnival!
Marylaine Block explains what she expects to find on library websites.
Ex Libris–an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies — issue 259
In the process of researching my next book, I’ve been exploring library web sites, from the standpoint not of a librarian, but of a reasonably sophisticated user searching for specific kinds of information about those [...]
Open Access Webliography
This webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005.
Lots and lots of resources.
Open Access Webliography
This webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005.
Lots and lots of resources.
Don’t you know, I was planning on writing about getting my job and someone else got to it first. But there are a couple of things that came up for me that wouldn’t have for Chad.
But first I have to agree that you’re most important asset is flexibility. I figured out what my basic needs [...]
JOLT – Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education.
via Open Access News
The Library in the Palm of Your Hand: PDAs – LJ Tech Blog – Blog on LibraryJournal.com – 670000067
The Library in the Palm of Your Hand(PDAs) compiled by Sue Searing is now available on the web as a UI Current Awareness Clip. She has selected and annotated articles on a variety of topics related [...]
What’s Jabber?
It’s an open instant messaging protocol.
Huh?
You don’t need to know.
So I Care Because…?
Kids and Teens prefer IM to email. IM is interesting in that it’s more casual than email, you know whether or not the person is there by the away message so you can get an immediate response. It’s Hi, can you… instead [...]