Neuroscience
Check out SirsiDynix's podcasts! I've posted about their Instutites before -- they cover topics like wikis for librarians, customer service, and the one I saw, on electronic resource managers. They feature well-known names in library-land talking about hot technologies, services, and products in library-land.
They're free and very professional.
My only beef with them has been that the Institutes (live webinars) play only with PCs. So I either had to watch them live, which I did once, or try to catch them some other time while I'm at work and have access to my PeeCee.
But now! They're available as podcasts! Yippee!
Podcasted topics include a discussion of The OCLC Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources Report; a 2-part series called Beginner's Guide to Podcasting; and Steven M. Cook on The Center of it All: How Libraries Can Be in the Forefront of Building Active Communities.
Haven't heard one yet, but they are available for subscription in iTunes. I couldn’t find tem when I searched SirsiDynix in the ITMS (iTunes Music Store), but I was able to connect directly from the Sirsi web site. This
link should work, too, but ymmv.
(also found some podcasts from the recent Special Libraries Association conference.)
- Using Social Software In Libraries
Just heard a great talk by Meredith Farkas called Building Academic Library 2.0. Meredith did a terrific job of talking about technology in a way that tech librarians would appreciate and that non-techies would understand. The talk was presented to academic...
- Oclc's Jay Jordan @ Uconn
Yesterday, the University of Connecticut Libraries Forum Team sponsored a conversation with Jay Jordan, president and CEO of OCLC. He was dynamic, engaging, smart, and thoughtful. Some data from Jordan on OCLC itself: Over 60,000 libraries in 112 countries...
- Simmons Gslis Podcasts
Simmons Graduate School of Library & Information Science is now podcasting some of their events -- yay! Called GSLIScast, these podcasts present talks given from November 2006 to present, and include some interesting names in the field: - UMass librarian...
- Worldcat.org
Woo hoo! You can now search WorldCat directly, without an account, and find out what libraries anywhere carry the book / CD / DVD / etc. that you want! See the box to the left of this post? Try it out! Note: this will *not* work if your library hasn’t...
- Horn-tooting Time ...
So I gave my presentation on Emerging Technologies to the Capital District Library Council on Monday. It was entitled "Crossing the Chasm" and offered a brief introduction to many tech trends -n- buzzwords that librarians hear about but may not know how...
Neuroscience
SirsiDynix Institutes are Podcasting!
Check out SirsiDynix's podcasts! I've posted about their Instutites before -- they cover topics like wikis for librarians, customer service, and the one I saw, on electronic resource managers. They feature well-known names in library-land talking about hot technologies, services, and products in library-land.
They're free and very professional.
My only beef with them has been that the Institutes (live webinars) play only with PCs. So I either had to watch them live, which I did once, or try to catch them some other time while I'm at work and have access to my PeeCee.
But now! They're available as podcasts! Yippee!
Podcasted topics include a discussion of The OCLC Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources Report; a 2-part series called Beginner's Guide to Podcasting; and Steven M. Cook on The Center of it All: How Libraries Can Be in the Forefront of Building Active Communities.
Haven't heard one yet, but they are available for subscription in iTunes. I couldn’t find tem when I searched SirsiDynix in the ITMS (iTunes Music Store), but I was able to connect directly from the Sirsi web site. This
link should work, too, but ymmv.(also found some podcasts from the recent Special Libraries Association conference.)
- Using Social Software In Libraries
Just heard a great talk by Meredith Farkas called Building Academic Library 2.0. Meredith did a terrific job of talking about technology in a way that tech librarians would appreciate and that non-techies would understand. The talk was presented to academic...
- Oclc's Jay Jordan @ Uconn
Yesterday, the University of Connecticut Libraries Forum Team sponsored a conversation with Jay Jordan, president and CEO of OCLC. He was dynamic, engaging, smart, and thoughtful. Some data from Jordan on OCLC itself: Over 60,000 libraries in 112 countries...
- Simmons Gslis Podcasts
Simmons Graduate School of Library & Information Science is now podcasting some of their events -- yay! Called GSLIScast, these podcasts present talks given from November 2006 to present, and include some interesting names in the field: - UMass librarian...
- Worldcat.org
Woo hoo! You can now search WorldCat directly, without an account, and find out what libraries anywhere carry the book / CD / DVD / etc. that you want! See the box to the left of this post? Try it out! Note: this will *not* work if your library hasn’t...
- Horn-tooting Time ...
So I gave my presentation on Emerging Technologies to the Capital District Library Council on Monday. It was entitled "Crossing the Chasm" and offered a brief introduction to many tech trends -n- buzzwords that librarians hear about but may not know how...