Apologies for the break in transmission. Normal programming has now been resumed.
Finding that 15 minutes a day has proved too tricky lately.
So, while I belatedly tackle wikis, you can watch this cute trailer. The movie's Australasian premier is scheduled for the ALIA Dreaming 08 Conference in September.
Back soon.
"I was destined for libraries!"
"You're looking for yourself in the library"
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
"Have you a real love of books and learning? Do you like people and do people like you?"
Then this is the job for you:
"Serious scholars may use its excellent facilities and wonderful collection of more than 5 million books and manuscripts." Does that sound spookily familiar?
OK, I admit, I have fast forwarded to videos, but I promise to go back to wikis soon.
"Serious scholars may use its excellent facilities and wonderful collection of more than 5 million books and manuscripts." Does that sound spookily familiar?
OK, I admit, I have fast forwarded to videos, but I promise to go back to wikis soon.
Fetch!
As mentioned earlier, RSS has some great applications for libraries. One of my favourites is the ability to set up feeds for journal contents alerts and also searches from journal databases. I love the little orange icon!! I subscribe to a range of feeds from journals of interest from EBSCO databases. We already subscribe to these databases and RSS reader software is free - so, for a low investment (awareness raising and training) we can deliver real value to our clients. And, it's leveraging the investment we've already made on our database subscriptions. I wonder how many libraries are educating their clients on how to use RSS feeds and journal databases to create tailored alerts to content that they can't get for free on the web.
When we guide clients through a database search, do we mention that they can set up an automated regular search and view the results through their reader?
The second application that I like is the ability to subscribe to new titles information from library catalogues. Even though I'm not a client of theirs, I subscribe to new titles from a few university library catalogues on subjects of interest. Clients can set up their own subject profile and new title information is delivered automatically to their reader. Again, I doubt this would entail a great deal of effort for the library once it was set up. And in the case of a deposit library - like us - this would be really valuable for our researchers.
When we guide clients through a database search, do we mention that they can set up an automated regular search and view the results through their reader?
The second application that I like is the ability to subscribe to new titles information from library catalogues. Even though I'm not a client of theirs, I subscribe to new titles from a few university library catalogues on subjects of interest. Clients can set up their own subject profile and new title information is delivered automatically to their reader. Again, I doubt this would entail a great deal of effort for the library once it was set up. And in the case of a deposit library - like us - this would be really valuable for our researchers.
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