Archive for November, 2005
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
Flickr
For those of you who haven’t heard about Flickr yet, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? Hiding under a ROCK??
Just kidding. There are always new technologies that fly under people’s radar until serendipity steps in.
Anyway, Flickr is one of those hot new web technologies that has virtually unlimited possibilities. In a nutshell, it’s a place you can […]
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Monday, November 7th, 2005
Tag Clouds
Tags are one of the hot new features online. Basically, a tag is a descriptor (metadata, if you will, that is added to something like a picture or webpage or what have you so that people can find it. Flickr is a superlative example of tag usage. People can view pictures and apply tags that […]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
Tracking Usage
While we’re on the topic of helpful applications and using technology to help boring yet fundamental reference department functions, here’s another bonus for using Excel: tracking usage of Reference materials.
It’s one of those things that we know we ought to do, but too often gets left behind in the mass of things requiring our time […]
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
The Blog People
Who are “The Blog People?” Michael Stephens is doing a survey for his doctoral research and would be greatly assisted if any of you librarians who are blogging could take his survey. It’s specific to librarians or other library workers, including Library School students. If you fit any of those categories and you write an […]
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