hennepin county library’s bookspace The ever resourceful Librarian in Black breaks a huge story about hennepin county library’s bookspace which is an online community based around books. I’m going to copy her list of things readers can do at bookspace: * create their own account for Book Space * sign up for e-mail alerts on [...]

saving time with social web tools I hope this mini case study of a time strapped library helps expose the “I don’t have time for social software” excuse to be just that: an excuse for not wanting to expand and learn. Indeed. Bookmarking for the next argument over new technology versus the way we’ve always [...]

Seven Strategies for Marketing in a Web 2.0 World So what should a marketer do in an era where customers freely discuss your products and services? People post compliments and complaints that can be discovered by thousands of Internet users. Peers listen to and trust these reviews. If you’re in charge of marketing for your [...]

LibrarianInBlack: NetLibrary tutorial on YouTube …the North Metro Technical College Library in Acworth, Georgia. They have 9 videos total so far, all nice tutorials on how to find information in various resources.

If you build it, will they come? (part 2) » “Self-plagiarism is style” Even with the least used tweaks, there’s more than enough usage to justify the development time, so I’m extremely happy with the graphs. Usability tweaks are worth implementing.

Is Second Life a brave new world? – 05 Mar 2007 – IT Week You may recall the early days of the web: geeks ruled and it was full of nonsense. Anyone trying to engage with that world found it strange and intimidating. It contained a lot of good stuff, but it wasn’t easy to [...]

ebyblog » Blog Archive » OpenID, Single Signon and Academia OpenID via your local library, be it your university or public. That is community service!

David Lee King » Blog Archive » Twtter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter

Shocking, I know. Gonzales, Mueller admit FBI broke law – Yahoo! News And they promise not to do it again Boing Boing: DoJ: FBI misused Patriot act in domestic spying activities ALA | Statement from ALA President Leslie Burger on Justice Dept. Investigation into FBI, NSLs These findings confirm many of ALA’s most repeatedly stated [...]

T. Scott: Librarians Unbound …Librarians need to free themselves from the tyranny of the library. This is hard, I know. All of us in the field, to one degree or another, love libraries and feel emotionally bound to them. But they are only a means. Libraries don’t do anything — librarians do. heehee