Archive for November, 2005
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Navigating the Library
There are two weeks left to the semester. And then Finals. Students are cramming to get papers written (which means that many are just starting to do research). It used to be that when this period of the semester arrived, students were at least familiar by now with where books are located. To even […]
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
Vacations
What do librarians do when they work at a university or school and there’s a vacation? The general perception out there in the pseudo-real world is that academic librarians are like teachers, meaning that they only have to work when there are classes. Nine months a year, and relax all summer and relax during all […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Organizing Information
It wasn’t that long ago that the primary ways of organizing information were by the Dewey Decimal System or by the Library of Congress Classification System. Or just by alphabetizing. Technology initially made this kind of organizing easier because we could sort information by it’s title or author or other categories, or even search for […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
LibraryThing
Here’s another excellent library-related technology tool. It’s called LibraryThing and it allows you to catalog your books online. This isn’t really intended for formal libraries–they have their own systems. This is for personal libraries.
There are tons of great features (including searching the Library of Congress, Amazon, and over 30 major libraries from around the world, […]
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Monday, November 14th, 2005
Frappr Button
Yes, now there’s a button that you can put on your blog! The Blogging Librarians map on Frappr has grown to 84 members in less than five days (and that includes the weekend!), and includes people all over the world already, so it’s obvious that people are finding it useful and are spreading the word.
Here […]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Frappr
Yes, it’s another odd name for some new Internet technology. This one’s interesting in that it tracks members of groups. It’s like a big map where you can stick a pin to say where you’re from. And it uses Google’s cool mapping technologies to make it easy and interesting to use.
I’ve created one called Blogging […]
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