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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.

Archive for August, 2005

What's on Your Website

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 [...]

Job Hunting Advice

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 [...]

JOLT

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

PDAs

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 [...]

Jabbering

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. [...]