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  • Free your content! RSS for Libraries: recording now available

    Last month (August 7), Meredith Farkas and I did a SirsiDynix presentation called Free your content! RSS for Libraries.  The recordings (audio and video) for that session are now available on the SirsiDynix website, as is a PDF of our slides.  The video is in WMV format and doesn’t play very nicely for those of…

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  • Accessing MeeboMe Widgets in Pidgin

    Chad Boeninger has a comprehensive post at Library Voice describing how to view your MeeboMe widgets while using Pidgin (formerly GAIM), thus obviating the need to have Meebo open in a website at all.  I haven’t tried Pidgin in a long time, but would LOVE not to have to have a web page open in…

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  • Jossey-Bass O-T-L Conference Online

    I’m cleaning out email after my vacation and wanted to get this one out as there’s a fee increase after August 31.  I have no affiliation with this group, but Jossey-Bass is promoting several of its books through an online conference October 17-18.  When you register you can also choose three book titles to keep. …

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  • On vacation

    Neglected to warn y’all that I’m on vacation almost until the end of the month.  Installed Google Gears earlier today and really do like it in my situation of very limited wireless access – am going to be able to keep up with the RSS feeds at my leisure now 🙂  See you when the…

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  • Gale now offers RSS feeds

    As part of a suite of interface changes, Gale is now offering the ability to subscribe to search alerts via RSS.  Just as with EBSCO, when I added the alert to Google Reader it came back with no results, so I’m assuming it will start feeding me new results when they’re added to the database. …

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