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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 November, 2005

ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights

ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights Let me use RSS as an example. RSS 1.0 was born December 2000. RSS 2.0 in September 2002. It’s almost 2006 and ILS vendors are just now starting to unveil some RSS feeds. We shouldn’t be treating those announcements like watershed moments. They’re tidbits of “too-little-too-late” packaged in shiny wrappers, served with [...]

V VRD Conference

Thanks to the VRD Conference Blog and Librarian in Black, there is plenty of information for those of us who weren’t able to attend the Virtual Reference Desk Conference. IPL’s Model for Kids Questions Training & Education Track session Federal Library Collaborative VR Project Evaluation of a Chat Reference Service from the User’s Perspective IM [...]

Alluring lattes (and more!)

Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book: Alluring lattes (and more!) Our coffee shop opened Monday and it’s already very popular. We already have the most popular computer lab on campus (with the oldest computers…) and wifi. Now we just need the new website. (I’m working on it).