Marlo Young, Undergraduate Services Librarian at the UCSD, coordinated the production of this advert for her library.
I love the fact that it was filmed by a student and the music was made by a student. What a great way to make it authentic!
Hey, before you watch the video, check out [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
UCSD library video
30 Oct 07 – 12:30 pm
internet librarian 2007 day one
29 Oct 07 – 4:08 pm
It has been a fast and great first day (plus preconference days!) at Internet Libraian 2007. You’ll have to go elsewhere for good coverage of today’s sessions because I was running around like a madman giving talks. Here are my presentations converted to PDF format. As always, if you have questions about [...]
user experience vs buyer experience
25 Oct 07 – 2:17 pm
Wise words from 37 signals. Please read the following paragraph but replace “enterprise software” with “integrated library systems” or “databases”
The people who buy enterprise software aren’t the people who use enterprise software. That’s where the disconnect begins. And it pulls and pulls and pulls until the user experience is split from the buying [...]
those stylish europeans!
25 Oct 07 – 9:03 am
A few years back I wrote about the nice looking website and cute icons found on the openbare bibliotheek delft (now callled the DOK?) website. Now seems to be a nice time to link back to that since the Dutch are traipsing around the USA visiting libraries.
Also I’ve been exchanging emails with a librarian [...]
walking paper scraps
24 Oct 07 – 5:01 pm
→ Improve Photoshop performance on the cheap
→ an unbelievable customer service experience from the online shoe retailer zappos.
People notice when institutions take it to the next level. Hint.
→ podcast from your photocopier
online outreach: 2.0 marketing strategies for libraries
24 Oct 07 – 9:42 am
Here’s a slide from the presentation I’m giving with Sarah Houghton-Jan next week! We’re kicking off Monday, October 29th’s Public Libraries track at Internet Librarian which was assembled by Jenny and Michael. It is going to be fun, hope to see you there!
user generated content
23 Oct 07 – 3:00 pm
Found in their flickr stream. Nice work TFML!
I especially like “I’d steal them were I a thief.”
Originally uploaded by thomas ford memorial library
are our date due receipts as useful as they could be?
18 Oct 07 – 4:50 pm
Here’s a fantastic idea mentioned to me this morning by a library volunteer: book recommendations on date due receipts. As in, If you liked [item checked out], check out [related item].
If vendors made this happen I wonder if they’d use subject headings to drive the recommendation engine. I don’t [...]
meebo firefox add-on alerts you
18 Oct 07 – 7:27 am
IMming Reference Librarians, listen up! Meebo has released a meebo firefox add-on. Installing it will put a buddy list in the sidebar of your browser. The sidebar can be hidden if you don’t like it taking up the screen real estate.
One of the biggest complaints about using meebo at the [...]
