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Technology Readiness
Stephen Bell at ACRLog posts about data from a survey of technology readiness that may help explain why you feel overwhelmed by all this new stuff there is to play with, but also why your more experienced colleagues are even less likely to want to play with it. Interesting stuff.
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Jing – Techsmith’s first screen capture and screencasting product for the Mac
Interesting that I’m more excited about Jing being Techsmith’s first foray into OSX than I am about the product itself, but there you go! It’s available for Windows too, but only XP and Vista, not 2K, which is what I run at the office, so I haven’t played with it on the Windows side. Techsmith…
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Librarian 2.0 – Interviews on the future of libraries
A couple of months ago Will Sherman, writing for DegreeTutor.com, interviewed me as part of a series on the Future of Libraries. Will came to the attention of the library world earlier this year with his good piece, 33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important. The series of interviews with Librarians and…
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Recommended article in ONLINE
I second Judith’s recommendation to read William Badke’s new column, InfoLit Land, in ONLINE. You can’t find it on the open web, but it’s in all the big aggregators (ProQuest, EBSCO, InfoTrac, though none yet have the July/August issue up). Last issue’s column (May/June Vol. 31(3), pp. 50-52) was Bill’s intro, A Champion of Information…