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Global Librarian
Rachel at The Liminal Librarian posts about a craigslist Bangalore ad for a telecommuting “highly proficient and experienced researcher.” A while back I thought about applying for a job exchange program in India, and wondered, if I wanted to, would I be able to support my U of C distance students from there? I figured…
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Rothman’s RSS to Web Page examples
Wow, I’ve played with these types of tools for a couple of years now, but I tend to stick with what works for me, and thus haven’t even heard of about half of these, but David Rothman put together a nice page showing default output for nine different tools that allow RSS to be output…
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Wii can screencast!
I guess I was a good boy last year, as my wife was able to score me a Wii for Xmas! The Wii includes an internet browser (based on Opera), and of course as a library geek I just had to see what it was capable of. Viewing Screencasts? Check! Accessing databases via EZProxy? Check! …
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Canadian libraries are doing just fine in the digital age
Nice article from the Globe and Mail about public libraries in Canada: Libraries turn page to thrive in digital age. Basically it talks about how libraries are changing to keep up with different demands; offering services to teens (including the obligatory DDR night), spending more of their budgets on electronic resources. Nothing we librarians don’t…
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Survey: Blogs in Academic Libraries
Shelly Drumm (and colleagues) writes: We are exploring the uses of blogs in academic libraries. If you have experience with blogs as a means of communicating with your patrons, we would welcome your input in a brief survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=773202839763 The best part is that after completing the survey you can see how the other respondents…