Assumptions in the Blogosphere

Phew! The last couple of days have brought up a number of interesting points. Blog titles of course can’t be copyrighted, but all the same, I’d rather not take the chance of stepping on anyone’s toes. Steven was very happy to share, but I wasn’t entirely sure based on his first posting. [...]

Oops…

A big apology to Steven M. Cohen of the original Library Stuff blog. I goofed. This blog started out as a small test and was aimed towards the staff and board at my library. It was late one night and all I could come up with was Library Stuff. The blog [...]

Smaller Libraries and Library 2.0

Now that I’ve finished my assignment, I have some time to breath before classes start again next week, which means I’m catching up on what I consider to be required reading. The article everyone seems to be blogging about, Library 2.0 by Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk was first on the list.
It’s a great [...]

Back to School – Virtually

Seeing as how it’s back to school time, I thought I should blog a bit about my school, Northumbria University, located in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK. The strangest part about this MLIS program is that I’ve never actually seen the campus (well, I have seen a brochure of 18 year-old models decked out in [...]

Tagging

I just stumbled across this great blog: TechEssence.Info – its contributors (a group of highly-regarded librarians and techies) post ‘easy to understand information about information technology’.
They have a very informative post about Tagging written by Jenn Riley. It’s a good overview of the concepts of tags and how libraries could and should make use of [...]

Library 2.0

One of my favourite bloggers, Michael Casey, has a new article in Library Journal all about Library 2.0. I can’t wait to read it, but it’ll have to wait as I have a gigantic assignment due in a couple of days (wish me luck!).
Also on the reading wishlist: Web 2.0 and Libraries: Best Practices [...]

Librarians Selling Out to Google?

In the latest issue of Library Journal, Steven J. Bell shares his disappointment with librarians for participating in a Google infomercial. While I don’t agree with all he says, he did bring up some things that hadn’t occurred to me – things I probably should have thought of.
When I first saw Google’s video highlighting [...]