http://libidresources.wordpress.com Librarians sharing cool stuff Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:31:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Is your library like mine? Wedded to PDF subject guides? Or do you have other PDF tip or info sheets for students linked from your library website? I just checked out Issuu which lets you upload your PDFs and provides a really great, user-friendly way to read them. ... http://libidresources.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/issuu-a-great-pdf-viewer/ Wow. The Library of Congress and Flickr have partnered together to harness the power of Flickr users to describe and catalogue the LOC's huge photographic archives. You can check them out here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/. Most of these images are without copyright too - so go ahead, tag, describe, ... http://libidresources.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/loc-flickr-awesome/ Two weeks ago, I read David Lee King's post about how they put a meebome widget in their library catalog's "no results found" page and thought "Hey, that's a great idea, why don't we do that?" Fortunately, I work with a really responsive group of colleagues at the library ... http://libidresources.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/two-weeks-with-meebo-in-our-catalog/ Find the how-to here! No javascript at all, people! I don't have time to play with it right now, but if any of you do, let me know how it works out. Update: reading through the comments, I've found this example too, though it's got a teensy bit of ... http://libidresources.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/css-drop-down-menus/ Yesterday, the reference librarians at Baylor went to the university's weekly "Dr. Pepper Hour" and set up a table to promote some of our recently launched services, including our 1-semester-old IM Reference service "IM your BaylorLibrarian". Little did we know when we booked the table that this particular Dr. ... http://libidresources.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/promoting-im-reference/ Liz Lawley Came dressed as one of her World of WarCraft characters (really) Became interested in WoW in 2005 and was asked to join a guild of virtual worlds researchers (made up of people who all know each other in real life and have a significant research interest in gaming and virtual ... http://libidresources.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/il2007-closing-keynote-from-physical-to-virtual-and-back-again-blurring-the-boundaries/ I'm sitting in the closing keynote session for IL2007, by Liz Lawley on "Gaming, Learning, & the Information World" and at the same time, reading the Annoyed Librarian's rant on Gaming. http://libidresources.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/how-ironic/ I've been looking forward to this session all week - since I have my own struggles with our campus CMS. ********************************* Ruth Kneale, National Solar Observatory, ATST Project - From Static to Dynamic: Choosing and Implementing a CMS CMSs - used to collaboratively and interactively create, manage, control, and publish information. Known ... http://libidresources.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/session-b304-content-management-systems-cmss/ Tom Reamy, Chief Knowledge Architect, KAPS Group Cautionary quote about folksonomies - "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world... The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate conviction." -W.B. Yeats Essentials of Folksonomies folksonomy is done by ... http://libidresources.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/session-b303-folksonomies-and-tagging-libraries-the-hive-mind/ Steven Cohen, Senior Librarian, Law Library Management Inc., & Creator, Librarystuff.net "RSS is neither simple nor syndicated: discuss" **************** I'm not going to blog all the notes, since his presentation is up on pbwiki: Presentation site Some points of interest: You can analyze trends with Google Reader, find your subscription numbers (this is fairly new), ... http://libidresources.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/session-b302-what%e2%80%99s-hot-with-rss/