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Mobile Libraries
We’ve been experimenting with a mobile version of our website at work. Right now it is a basic homepage with the vital library and patron information available. We’ve turned on the mobile version of several of our databases in conjunction … Continue reading
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Tagged access, library, mobile, online services, website, work
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Library building use planning
I recently met with the university’s facilities manager at work to talk about future uses to which the library staff would like to put our building. The general plan has been that the library would acquire the basement (lowest of … Continue reading
Reference Portal
While talking at work with the Systems Librarian about some of the reference services initiatives we hope to start rolling out this year, we started talking about a reference portal as a place to house it all. We’d been talking … Continue reading
Library Instruction
At work we are moving toward adding more library instruction resources online. One of our librarians has created a few sessions using the university’s Panopto studio. This allows for a video of the instructor coupled with the ability to add … Continue reading
Overdrive Media Console for Android
Yesterday the Overdrive Media Console on my Droid X was finally updated to include access to ebooks. I’ve been checking ebooks out from my public libraries for several years (SPL or KCLS depending when in the aforementioned ‘years’ we’re talking … Continue reading
Cataloging Module Improvements
In my Library Technology Systems class today we were talking about Integrated Library Systems. A question came up asking the class what systems they had experience using and what they thought could be improved about the modules they used. I … Continue reading
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Tagged cataloging, ILS, integrated library systems, library, ponderings, systems
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Expanding Library Online Services
I recently read a blog post from David Lee King titled Doing Stuff at the Library’s Website. He asks what can a person DO at your library website. I have been pondering this, as David encourages us to. Normally our … Continue reading
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Tagged access, education, library, online services, websites
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Begin Again
So, I haven’t done any blogging since I quit my last full-time job to concentrate on the second year of my graduate program. I’m enrolled in the Masters in Library and Information Science program at the Information School of the … Continue reading
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Tagged CMS, getting started, ILS, library, Open Source, website
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Chat & IM Ideas
One of my instructors forwarded an email to our class list-serve with several links to possible chat/IM tools for libraries. I had already been looking at Meebo and Pidgin as options. The new item to me is called Libraryh3lp. Information … Continue reading
Trying some new things
Today we talked about adding some new ways to communicate with one another. New ways to share information that may be relevant today or perhaps next year. We are looking into ways this could be realized. We talked about (re)setting … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, drupal, IM, library, mediawiki, meebo, reference
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