Midnight on Wednesday-Thursday found me hunched over my computer finishing updating the Tamworth Library site to the latest Scriblio release. I did run into one hiccup with the search function. It startled me, since searching ease is the site’s bread and butter. Thanks to some quick tech-support, it did get resolved quickly. [...]

I just finished up giving a presentation to our staff about the practical uses of rss. Returning to my desk I encounter this on Walsh’s flickr stream:

The comments include this, from Han N.:
Those colors are amazing! Did you know that an octopus can make itself like a coconut as a defense mechanism? I always thought [...]

YAY for libraries in the mainstream! This cam across my LifeHacker feed today.:
CNET reports that the best place to get free books, music, movies and photos isn’t BitTorrent - it’s your public library.
thanks to CNet.
Gary Price knows what’s up:
The bottom line is people can’t use what they don’t know about. It’s not just search. [...]

While the social tools libraries might use to reach their online users are free, they still represent an investment and should be treated as such. It’s an investment of time and attention instead of money. I was pleased to find that Darlene Fichter make a similar point (much more elegantly than me, I [...]

I’m psyched that local papers are paying attention to Web 2.0, shifting primary information sources, and how libraries are responding to it to meet user needs even though “the trend has sparked anst-filled discussion for the past several weeks among librarians online.” Marian Peterson of the South Portland Library sums things up nicely:
Librarians need [...]

I’m just coming off a weekend of wall to wall librarianship. I was fortunate to spend all day Thursday and Friday at the PLA conference. Followed by a raucous Friday night reminding the gentle citizens of Cambridge, MA that information needs are all around us, if we’d only look. I got [...]