I attended my first Internet Librarian conference this past week in beautiful Monterey, California. While my blog posts were infrequent, I soaked up a lot of good information from the presenters. Wednesday morning's session with a panel of three 'born digital' students was fascinating...
I joined my colleagues, Karen Reiman-Sendi and Mike Creech, in presenting about my library's web site redesign at Internet Librarian 2009 this past week. The presentation, titled "Designing for Content-Rich Sites," was streamed live; an archived copy is available on UStream...
When Students go Mobile: The Effects of Smartphones on Information Literacy and Academic Library Services Kristen Yarmey-Tylutki Students with smartphones think of them as leisure devices, not academic devices -- only 11% in a recent survey...
Unfiltered notes from Roy Tennant's talk on Digital Library Network: Perceptions report -- libraries = books Libraries were once center of information universe. Many online catalogs are simply card catalogs on screen. Libraries were built around the idea of scarcity...
I'm recording my mostly unedited notes from Internet Librarian 2009 here. Vint Cerf was interviewed by Paul Holdengraber -- the conversational format made for an entertaining and informative session...
The FTC yesterday released an updated version of "16 C.F.R. Part 255: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising: Notice Announcing Adoption of Revised Guides" -- guidelines for acceptable endorsements and reviews of consumer products...
Google today released a new version of Google Chrome for Windows...
What's the difference between RSS and Atom? Both are XML formats, both are in common use, and most people who read RSS feeds don't need to know the technical differences between them...
An article in last month's U.S...
I stumbled across yet another RSS embedding tool, the prosaically named JavaScript RSS Box Viewer...
A new feed-finding search engine, Feedmil, has made an appearance. Feedmil is a feed-only search engine with some clever interface features to help you narrow down your search...
I've written several times about TicTOCs (most recently in TicTOCs: It's About Time). TicTOCs is a JISC-funded free service that collects RSS feeds for journal table of contents...
Say you're blogging about a topic and you want to quote an excerpt of a commercial publication in your post. How much can you quote, verbatim, under the doctrine of "fair use"...
A new feed-finding search engine, Feedmil, has made an appearance. Feedmil is a feed-only search engine with some clever interface features to help you narrow down your search...
