To those who complain that Twitter is just a growing forum for navel-gazers with nothing significant to say, I offer this post from the Columbia Journalism Review: At the TimesOPEN conference it was easy to assume that the audience of Twitterers (Tweeters?) wasn’t paying attention, but what was really going on was a broader, more [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Twitter for Good or for Evil?
Posted in technology on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Library Websites, redux
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read a great article this morning about the future of library websites, and thought it more than worth sharing. Steven Bell writes in Inside Higher Ed that we need to re-think the purpose and role of library web portals. He points out that most scholars (and students) are no longer using library web sites [...]
Nerd videos
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Josh Porter at Bokardo pointed out a great collection of videos released by Peachpit on such fascinating topics as search engine optimization, social networking, and web standards by big names in the field (at least, I assume they’re big names. Being new to all this, I’m not so sure). Interesting stuff, if you’re into that [...]
Feminist Books for Kids
Posted in books on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the ALA (wow, we librarians sure now how to complicate things) comes up every year with the Amelia Bloomer List, a list of great feminist books for kids. The 2009 list has been released! These books all showcase girls and women who go against [...]
