Archive for January, 2007

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Monday, January 29th, 2007

RSS for Anything

Have you ever wanted to subscribe to a webpage only to find out that they didn’t have any RSS feeds? Here’s a remedy for that problem. It’s called Page2RSS and it does just what it says. Namely, it checks any given page for changes and then sends them to you for viewing in whatever aggregator […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Technology by pfitz
Friday, January 26th, 2007

Librarian 2.0

Here’s another excellent article by Michael Stephens about where libraries and librarians need to be headed in this new technological era. That’s been called Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0, depending on where the desired emphasis is. Regardless of what facet you want to emphasize, there is a demonstrated need for libraries and librarians […]

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Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Library Crystal Ball

Here’s a cool little bit of prognostication that I found from Dave Pattern via Michael Stephens. It’s called the Library Predict-o-matic 3000 and it tells you what will happen in the future of libraries. Specifically regarding various OPAC vendors. See the example below. Then click it and refresh to get various predictions.

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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Art Garfunkel’s Reading List

How cool is THIS? Apparently Art Garfunkel has kept a list of the books that he has read over the last 30 years. Listing what someone has read over an extended period of time provides an interesting profile of a person, letting you see what has influenced them over time. Kind of like getting a […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Miscellaneous by pfitz
Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Library Trends

I would like to recommend another excellent library-related blog to you. This one is written by K.G. Schneider and is called Free Range Librarian. Schneider is an excellent and experienced writer who tends to blog about libraries and technology (go try to figure out why I like her stuff!) with occasional posts about personal life […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Technology, Libraries by pfitz
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Library Videos

Here’s a link to a new blog that I’ve just found. Library Videos is a blog by Nancy Dowd that features “the best videos about libraries on the web.” If you’ve ever found yourself looking for a good video clip about libraries, look no further! And the nice part is that they’re all embedded, so […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Libraries by pfitz