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.
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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 tools. For [...]

Hello, for those living in QLD who are interested in blogs and wikis for client communication in libraries, Chelsea Harper and myself will be presenting a session on ‘Using Blogs and Wikis to Communicate with Clients’ at the next QULOC Session ‘Communicating with Clients Using New Technologies’ on the 28th August. http://www.quloc.org.au/
For the interest of [...]

Ever wonder how many libraries around Australia are using blogs? What about wikis? Recently I learnt about a great project Chelsea Harper and Kate Watson are working on, which aims to investigate how blogs and wikis are being used in Australian libraries. This project is supported by the Ray Choate Scholarship, an award which “enable[s] [...]

Here at the RUBRIC project we have a wiki that we make available to all of our project partners and board members. So what exactly is a wiki? The definition provided by the Wikipedia, the worlds largest and best known wiki, states:
A wiki … is a type of website that allows users to easily add, [...]