Posted on January 9, 2009 by Sandy Swanson
Glad to be in here, not out there, as the snow continues to fall…
I don’t offer “virtual reference” as such, as a solo librarian, but I found David Lee King’s post, Ask-a-librarian services need a reboot, thought-provoking. How do we prioritize service requests? And how do we advise our patrons of likely wait times without [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
LITA Blog has posted summaries of ALA 2008’s Top Technology Trends presentations. Interesting reading, for those of us treading water to keep up…
Sarah Houghton-Jan’s trends:
Bandwidth
Sustainability
Looking away from the bright shiny things and at ourselves instead
Catalogs
Open access content
Virtual Karen’s Top Tech Trends
APIs
Virtual participation in classes & conferences
Mobile devices & technologies
Eric Lease Morgan’s trends
Bling in your [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
Hardin Library at University of Iowa has posted a guide to online flood recovery information sources: http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/floodrecovery. Many of the resources focus on health aspects of flooding.
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
“EBLIP is an open access, peer reviewed journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services and supported by an international team of editorial advisors. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP [...]
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