The Hawaiian Library Association isn’t a huge organization, but what it lacks in numbers it makes up for in enthusiasm. Especially the student members! They seemed very eager, willing, and able to make great contributions to the field.
The conference had many techie presentations, but what impressed me most was the evening session of [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
the sun sets on hawaii
13 Nov 06 – 12:50 am
“Combining IM and Vendor-based Chat: A Report from the Frontlines of an Integrated Service.â€
9 Nov 06 – 6:18 pm
Kathleen from University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapaign left a comment about a paper she recently published. I like the UIUC doesn’t see IM and web-based chat as an either/or proposition and look forward to reading the paper.
The UIUC (Univ. Illinois @ Urbana-Chamapaign) Library has been operating IM reference alongside its chat service since Feb [...]
customizing mediawiki for internal use
8 Nov 06 – 2:13 pm
After Internet Librarian, ricklibrarian was jazzed up about using a wiki for an internal knowledge base. I should have called him “wiklibrarian.” So, last night I installed Mediawiki on the TFML website. I’ve done a few installs of Mediawiki which made this one fast and smooth.
What did, however, take a [...]
the great IM
7 Nov 06 – 11:41 am
UPDATE: this post might be breaking my feed, which bloglines doesn’t seem to be reading. testing, testing.
Steven Bell and I wrote some skits for the Soaring to Excellence teleconference that we did. COD filmed professional actors performing our astute works and now I have copies of them. Here’s the one on [...]
IM talking points
2 Nov 06 – 10:23 pm
No matter how much I seem to flap my gums about instant messaging, I still find some people are interested. As I mentioned in the previous post, the conversation has shifted from getting the occasional “Meh” or “Nope, no way” to “Yes! I know I need to do this, but no one else [...]
30 Positive Uses of Social Networking
2 Nov 06 – 8:58 pm
You don’t get many plain links from me here, so listen up! Folks at the YALSA blog have been highlighting positive uses for teens and social networking sites over the past 30 days. They’ve compiled it into a big pdf titled SOCIAL NETWORKING AND DOPA.
The ideas presented point out how libraries [...]
