Archives
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Open Source Web Design
Browse through the sites below to find ideas or pieces of code to help in your next redesign.
Website Design — laura
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
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 a helping of “Who’s your Daddy?”
No, that’s not ok. It’s certainly not innovative. We need another model that will allow us to handle progress ourselves because we can not, must not, rely on our vendors. So what should we be asking them for? In the face of Web 2.0 advancements, what is something concrete to demand of vendors that will enable us to implement our own individual visions of Library 2.0 and prepare us for what comes after?
Very well thought out and right on the mark.
Library Links — laura
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
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 Working with Trillian
- r u there? Adding IM to an Established Virtual Reference Service
- Text a Librarian: Integrating Reference by SMS into Digital Reference
- Heavyweights Beware: Alternatives to Traditional Virtual Reference Products
- Hurry! Hurry! R u dum? *#%@!
- User Satisfaction and Best Practices: Correlation in Live Online Reference
- Instant Messaging: An Alternative Virtual Reference Solution?
- Adoption of Instant Messaging for Chat at a Research Library in Conjunction with the Formal Chat Software Used
Library Links — laura
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
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).
Library Links, Marketing — laura
Clam Chowder: Add AIM Presence to your website with a simple IMG tag!
Clam Chowder: Add AIM Presence to your website with a simple IMG tag!
Web Tools — laura
