Back in November I had the opportunity to meet and interview Jeff Jarvis at a conference here at Yale. His talk was fascinating and the interview (embedded below) was interesting as well. I promptly had our library order What Would Google Do and was not disappointed. This book is a must-read for librarians.
Jarvis starts by [...]
So the day in the life of a librarian meme seems a great way to start blogging from my new position at Yale. I got put onto this by The Technological Tortoise (thanks Sarah).
A reminder to new readers of this blog, I just started a new job as the Librarian for Emerging Technologies at the [...]
For the last week or so I have been immersed in video. I have had some ideas about various video projects in the works for several months now. Much of this was inspired by Jeremiah Owyang’s video coverage of the Webvisions conference, and his Web Strategy Show.
These videos really hit me, because they are able [...]
Jeremiah Owyang has connected with another law librarian, Connie Crosby, who posted a comment on the web strategy Facebook wall. He has also connected with Steve Matthews, Michael Porter, and me.
It seems natural to me that libraries would be, and indeed should be interested in corporate web strategy. Jeremiah is one of those people who [...]
Jeremiah Owyang had a great post last week defining his own blog as a ‘career blog’.
He says:
This blog you’re reading “Web Strategy by Jeremiah” is a career blog. It’s not a corporate blog (if there is such thing), it’s not a business blog, and it’s not a personal blog. It’s really a combination of all [...]
Google has just released a new service in Google Books called My Library.
Peter Brantley has a good analysis of this service, and how it compares to LibraryThing.
Eric Lease Morgan also laments the use of the phrase My Library because it overshadows the MyLibrary project he has been working on for nine years.
While Google certainly has an [...]
Indiana University and Cha Cha will partner for some sort of academic search project.
This new partnership will incorporate the collective knowledge and experience of the university’s library and information technology staff into ChaCha’s new search engine architecture, which combines a sophisticated machine-based search with skilled human guides who can quickly bring focus and precision to [...]
Peter Brantley has a fascinating, all be it disturbing, post about usage statistics at libraries which are part of the Association of Research Libraries.
Essentially what he sees are falling circulation numbers and numbers of reference questions as a percentage of full-time students. The falling numbers appear to coincide with the growth of the internet. This [...]
Steve Matthews is looking for tips about “changing the fabric” of associations. I already posted a comment about some of my attempts to do this with the new Oregon SLA website. But I have also long thought that the Lunch 2.0 phenomenon that started in Silicon Valley might be well-suited for librarians, law librarians and corporate librarians in [...]
Awhile back I wrote about declining information literacy with regards to many bloggers/reporters who were carelessly attributing a quote to Albert Einstein, one which he may never have said. Last week Shawn at Anecdote posted about students in his class relying solely on wikipedia and google for supporting their theses. Jack Vinson has a nice analysis of [...]
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