Twitter seems to be the defacto backchannel at library conferences and events but at WebWise the other day Nina Simon suggested that everyone also use a site called Today’sMeet. I haven’t been inclined to report on conferences via Twitter nor have I used it very much to communicate with others during presentations. This [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
walking paper scraps
27 Feb 09 – 2:00 am
→ Need a way to format some text and capture the corresponding the CSS? Try CSS Type Set
It works rather well.
→ What everybody else is doing is irrelevant. Related to something I’ve been mulling over recently. What would libraries look like if they cut half of their services and concentrated on doing fewer [...]
library frustration: a story in three tweets
25 Feb 09 – 1:00 am
I have a panel in TweetDeck that displays a search for the terms library OR librarian. I filter the word iTunes out of the search because plenty of people tweet about their iTunes libraries evidently. I check it a few times throughout the day because it is nice to get a little snapshot [...]
catalog cards find another, shorter life
24 Feb 09 – 1:00 am
It strikes me that these cards retained bibliographic information for years and now they’ll just hold some notes for a few days at most.
text message notifications from the DCPL
23 Feb 09 – 4:50 am
District of Columbia Public Library patrons can now get holds and overdue notifications via SMS. What’s almost even cooler is something I learned just a few months back. When you apply for a DCPL card online it is immediately active and can be used to place holds and use electronic resources. And actually, [...]
User Interface Engineering Roadshow Portland
17 Feb 09 – 6:45 pm
Today I had the pleasure of attending an all day workshop with usability maven Jared Spool. He talked about designing great user experiences and I’ll be thinking about what he said in relation to my projects for work, the whole DCPL and libraries in general.
Once I sort it all out I’ll likely [...]
Flickr Cloud Widget
15 Feb 09 – 3:23 pm
Roy Tanck’s Flick Widget requires Flash Player 9 or better.
Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, but I haven’t seen too many new widgets for displaying flickr photos recently. Yeah, it’s made with Flash and makes my browser a bit wonky, but I still like the concept of this one that Roy Tanak has made [...]
