I think this is my third Blog Day – time flies when you’re having fun! Five blogs that I find interesting? My picks (I’m going to cheat a bit and call them new, even if they’re only new to me): Ockham’s Razor, subtitled musings of the lazyst environmentalyst. Written by Clare, “a librarian doing research”, [...]

Today a new feature of LINT has been released. It is called THALI – Tags. There is link to it in the top of every page or you can visit it directly by going to http://librariesinteract.info/thali-tags/. What is the THALI – Tag cloud? It is tag cloud made up of tags derived from posts from [...]

In July last year I wrote about blogging platforms being used for a variety of information management purposes. I gave a few examples and CW reminded us of Casey Bisson’s use of WordPress to “unsuck” the OPAC and build a library catalogue. Since then, the WPopac has become Scriblio, and it is now being used for an [...]

For those in Melbourne in July, this is one not to be missed, and not only because both Kathryn and I will be presenting!  Libraries, Web 2.0 and other Internet stuff will be held at the State Library of Victoria on Monday 23rd July. The key presenter will be Helene Blowers from the Public Library [...]

Apologies to those who linked and networked to http://del.icio.us/actplreference. It’s now been taken down, as administrators in my library were concerned about things being put up in its name without departmental approval. Most of the same links are available on http://del.icio.us/frightfullynew. This got me thinking about all of the trust issues for librarians in Library2.0. [...]

Audio from the symposium is now available as a Podcast.Add the NLS2006 podcast with enclosures to your RSS reader, iTunes or podcast software to get started. 19 sessions were recorded and are now available, including Joan Frye Williams’ popular keynote address on the user experience. Other topics include: the debate – “Should librarians be politically [...]

…well, not LINT…but the blogging software that runs it, WordPress. Casey Bisson, from Plymouth State Universty Library, has just received the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for his WPOpac, which uses WordPress software to run the OPAC. You can see it in action here. Search to find your item, which displays as a post on [...]

Only three short days ago the LISZEN search engine was made available. Using the new Google Co-op functionality Garrett Hungerford of the Library Zen blog has created a search engine that covers over 500 blogs in the area of Library and Information Science. Garrett used the list of blogs at the LISWiki to create the [...]

It’s wonderful to see that so many librarians from Queensland and nearby regions are so keen to learn about the use of emerging technologies to communicate with their clients. Following last year’s sell-out seminar “New Communication Technologies in Libraries”, the QULOC ICT working party arranged a reprise ” Communicating With Clients Using New Technologies”. This [...]

What’s a collaborative blog for if not collective brain picking? I’d like to harvest some thoughts about which technologies/social software/new web tools you think libraries should be prepared for. . We just wrapped up a two month project at work where we used a tikiwiki installation to look at new web tools using new web [...]