Monthly Archives: February 2009

today’smeet: an alternative backchannel

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 [...]

walking paper scraps

→ 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 [...]

my presentation at webwise 09

Yesterday I was part of a preconference session at WebWise 09, put on by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It was really fun! The session’s moderator, Nina Simon, gave my co-presenters and I the challenge of coming up with a social media plan for an ongoing library event. I gave [...]

library frustration: a story in three tweets

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

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.