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Nice changes, as noted in the U of C Collections News blog. Introducing the New WilsonWeb CX Edition! On January 2, 2008, WilsonWeb introduced an entirely new interface that is expected to enhance your searching experience, helping you to find relevant information quickly and easily. You will find much that is familiar, and yet, many…

Last month I received an email as a registered user of FeedYes.com, one of the first RSS Feed-creation tools I liked.  Seems they’re no longer offering any free options. From the email: FeedYES Update FeedYES increases servers and support, becomes paid service Last month, FeedYES was bought by a new owner. FeedYES has grown over…

Rebecca Hedreen points out that NPR is in the middle of a two-part series on online education.  You can listen online if you don’t catch it over the air.

A couple of library-related interviews from Jon Udell’s Interviews with Innovators series: Stuart WeibelOn this episode of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell invites Stuart Weibel to reflect on his leading role in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. They also discuss how databases like the Online Computer Library Center’s WorldCat – which consolidates bibliographic data…

For some reason in the car this AM the question popped into my head, “Why don’t any of us go by the moniker of iBrarian?”  I’ve seen cybrarian in many places, and that connotes a certain impression, but with all the iPod, iPhone etc. hype of the past few years, is this not a bandwagon…

On December 6 and repeated on January 15 I’ll be delivering a 2-hour presentation on Blogs, Wikis and RSS in the OCLC Western series of Keep Up! sessions.  Members of OCLC Western (from AK, CA, HI, ID, MT, OR, WA) can register for $30, and if you’d like to attend but aren’t a member it’ll…

Sarah points out that the presentations from the 2007 Virtual Reference Symposium are now available.  Lots of stuff on the big fee services, and on IM as well. Technorati Tags: IM, VR

The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a very short piece about the rising stock (as in stock market) of Capella University – lots of support in the comments from Capella grads!  I’ve met librarians from the U of Phoenix, but never from Capella, though the website says they exist.  Can’t actually get to the Capella…

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…

The title’s obviously a bit of an exaggeration, but LISNews has posted an article by Scott Boren that is in fact crammed full of interesting information about the state of full-text book searching.  Scott appears to have initially written the article for the National Library of Education, and credits a talk given by Greg Notess…