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Ready to create your own blog? Great! The first thing you'll need to figure out is which platform you'll want to buid your blog on. This post should help make that decision just a little easier. Fair warning: These are my opinions,... Read more

In Part 1, we defined what a blog is, where the word “blog” comes from, what the blogosphere and biblioblogosphere are, and a few ways that libraries and librarians use blogs. In Part 2, we talked a little bit about why blogs... Read more

In Part I, we defined what a blog is, explained where the word “blog” comes from, defined “blogosphere” and “biblioblogosphere,” and mentioned a couple of ways that libraries and librarians use blogs.Today... Read more

What’s a blog?Blogs are frequently called “online diaries” or something similar, and this definition doesn’t sit at all well with me.  The word “diary,” after all, suggests something about... Read more

I'm actually out-of-town this week visiting family in Minnesota and speaking at the Mayo Clinic as a part of their Mayo Libraries 2.0 program. Consequently, I'm putting off the post about blogs for a week while I polish it. In the... Read more

Hi there!My name is David Rothman and I’m very pleased to be planning a number of posts for the CLRC blog.I’ve been blogging for a little more than a year at http://davidrothman.net/, writing primarily about Medical Librarianship... Read more

This is my last post on this blog.  I am moving to a new position as Systems  and Tech Services Librarian at Tompkins-Cortland Community College (TC3) in Dryden.  It is much closer to my home and will offer me new challenges and... Read more

The original post this is based on appeared on http://library20.ning.com and was written by Tracey Reed. It is stolen with her permission and encouragement. I am using it with her permission with a few changes made to reflect where I work and... Read more

Tech Soup does it again! Click on the link below to get the full article and resources. Everything You Need to Know About Web 2.0: "Everything You Need to Know About Web 2.0 Learn about ways your organization can benefit from emerging... Read more

Many of you may have heard and already joined the Library 2.0 group I created on Ning. If you haven't, go to http://ibrary20.ning.com and take a look around. If you want to join click on the join tab. ... Read more

Disaster Planning Protect the collection and prepare staff with our disaster planning resources. By WebJunction Staff Send to a friend Printer Friendly Disaster Planning March 12, 2007 Thinking a disaster... Read more

These tip come from WebJunction.  If you are still considering whether or not to write a blog, check out Blogs for Libraries. WJ member Greg Schwartz explains what blogs are and why libraries should care about them. His reasons :... Read more

I saw this on Phil Bradley's I want to blog . It seems to work best in IE. I had problems getting it to work with FireFox. The videos appear to be of high quality and come from all over the web. The mix of choices for software packages is... Read more

I have been writing articles (posts) for the technology blog at http://www.clrc.org/blog/index.php. What I would like to know is anybody reading it? Is anyone subscribed to the RSS feed? I will also post this message to the blog where you... Read more

American Library Association Washington Office Newsline ALAWON Volume 16, Number 016 February 16, 2007 ________________________________ ALA Washington Office Offers Tips for Creating a Podcast ________________________________ This guide is... Read more

This is another great effort headed up by Steven Bell of Temple University. You must read this blog! Designing Better Libraries Designing Better Libraries is a blog about design thinking and how it applies to library settings. The goal of... Read more

Finding Google Custom Search Engines By Bill Drew on Google Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz pointed out this tip for locating Google Custom Search Engines (CSE) using this search string in Google: inurl:cse site:google.com inurl:coop.... Read more

I found a really good set of RSS tutorials at http://www.schwabe.com/library/rss_tutorials.htm.  while the target audience is for law librarians, it is a good place to start for learning about RSS.  Some of the detail may seem... Read more

If you look to the right and down a bit on any web page at CLRC's website, you will notice a heading that says RSS Feeds.  That means you do not have to go to the website to get the latest news form the council or to read posts to this... Read more

"Best Free Reference Web Sites Combined Index." American Library Association. 2006. http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/MARSBESTIndex.htm (Accessed 11 Jan, 2007)... Read more





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