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I enjoyed this post on Lifehacker a while back. It features some good sites to keep in mind for reference work.
Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources. Most of these sites won’t pop up to the surface of the […]
This article is in the Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, v.8 no.2 (Summer 2007).
Do you keep stats on your Library 2.0 traffic? If you have a presence on Facebook or MySpace, what kind of questions or interactions do you get? The Penn State librarians who wrote this article indicate that their […]
Library Arcade
A colleague sent this link to me and I have to say library video games are improving. The Carnegie Mellon Libraries offer two games: Within Range and I’ll Get It. Within Range is a game of learning the LC classification system. It requires players to reshelve a stack of books correctly before the timer runs […]
Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World
“The practice of using a social network to establish and enhance relationships based on some common ground—shared interests, related skills, or a common geographic location—is as old as human societies, but social networking has flourished due to the ease of connecting on the Web. This OCLC membership report […]
I was perusing through Davd Lee King’s blog today and there were a few interesting posts about notions of community and Web 2.0. I think it’s easy to understand the connection between 2.0 tools and the communities that use them. After all, that’s one of the big reasons why the library world has […]
Interesting article (first published in the Chronicle of Higher Education) in which David Greenstein at the University of California Digital Library talks to Google and Microsoft executives about access to information and trends in scholarly communication. Read it here.
Libraries are really all about access. The aim of the academic library is to make information […]