Grinding On

Another week almost ending. I finally got my Zoom cloud and Grazr Assignments done. Koha is also done I think. What else is left I don't know but heh I am happy I am getting things done at this point. Well let's go celebrate it's Saturday night.

Wednesday June 27

June is already coming to an end, how time flies. We are already halfway through the semester I can't wait for it to end, its been an eventful summer and we barely started. This article in Salon by Garrison Keillor, titled "the library fix: when politics gets mean and dumb, you can cheer yourself up by walking into a public library" cheers me up it makes me feel it's all worth it. Here is a link it's a must read for all of us.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/27/keillor/

Tidbits from ALA

I didn't attend ALA but here are some interesting tidbits coming out of there. In a session George Needham of OCLC said that college libraries should rethink many of their assumptions, speakers said that gaming skills are in many ways representative of a broader cultural divide between today’s college students and the librarians who hope to teach them. Inside Higher Ed has an interesting article on this "When ‘Digital Natives’ Go to the Library" read on...http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/25/games

Wikis in plain English

This is a very good overview of Wikis. Good instructional design. Wikis and blogs are some of the new communication tools in libraries today. I am posting the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Microsoft to change desktop search

Microsoft has agreed to change the desktop search in Vista in response to Google's anti trust complaint. Good for Google they stood up to Microsoft and won.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/19/AR2007061901893.html

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Scopus RSS Feed

Library Job Lists Search Engine

Announcing Library Job Lists Search Engine. I figured we are in the midst of our job search so I wanted to make it easy on everyone with this search engine.
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=007285061158411996899%3A0r5--qy0rww

Google and Microsoft at War

Google is alleging that Microsoft's Vista unfairly limits the choices of its competitors. It's beef is with Vista's desk top search capability which makes it difficult for people using Google desktop search. Is another anti trust suit against Microsoft in the works? Here is a link enjoy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061102177.html?nav=hcmodule

Last Week

Last week was a bummer, got so busy with assignments due that I only posted once on my blog, will have to catch up this week. Anyway still working on assignments for LIS2600. This technology article from Washington post makes interesting reading. "Microsoft signs another Linus deal," here is the link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400177.html

Firefox 3 alpha 5

Read this interesting article from NBT. Firefox 3 will be released in Fall 2007. New features are pretty cool. It includes Places, a side panel that allows control of bookmarks, RSS subscriptions and browser history in one place. Other features are the ability to back up and restore bookmarks. The bummer is it is incompatible with earkuer firefox bookmarks. If you haven't already read it enjoy if you subscribe to my blog. http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9726942-2.html?tag=blog

Wednesday Chat Session

This evening's chat session was very productive, got a lot of answers to my questions. The course is starting to make sense to me. Lots of the new technologies will be very useful in work situations, will serve as cheap alternatives to expensive tools like RefWorks which my library just purchased. Well got to go back to Web of Science and ENW.

WPWVC/ACRL

I attended the above meeting in Pittsburgh last Friday. Keynote speaker was Cliff Landis of Valdosta State. The presentation was titled Connect, Collaborate, Create: Making Sense (and Use) of “2.0″ http://clifflandis.net. He was really great, gave a good overview of Web 2.0 and libraries. Even went to a session on Using Blogs and RSS as professional development tools. These are the hot topics in library world now so folks we should thank Dr Tomer for exposing us to all these new technologies, could be challenging but worth it.

Marc Smith on Social Networking

This new basement tape was really interesting, its amazing all that Microsoft is researching on. However all this talk about net scan, snuff, community buzz and social accounting metadata to track patterns of social computing sounds a bit scary to me. Isn't that encroaching on peoples privacy. Pt. 2 is rather progressive, spot me.com will be cool.