Friday Link Round Up February 29, 2008

Cool things other libraries/institutions are doing

• Welcoming Freshmen: CeLIBration @ the GT Library
• Pageflakes continues to attract library pages
• University Video Portal Lets Students Remix Lectures
• iGoogle Gadgets at your Library
• Screencast: Creating a Library Database Page with Drupal

Web 2.0

• The myth of Web 2.0 democracy
  • short review
  • full article
• Manage your online reputation
• 10 Ways Libraries Can Use RSS

Search

• Sortfix - Making Search Child’s Play
• ManagedQ - really! try it!
  • about
  • try it

Friday Link Round Up February 22, 2008

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Virtual tour of ACPL
• 10 ways to make your library great in 2008
• Featured Reviews: A Way to Give Easy Ego Boosts to Your Customers
• all sorts of goodness from Vancouver Public Library

Humor

• Kirk wants to be a librarian
• Amazing posters

Miscellany

• Find the Perfect Meet-Up Point with Mezzoman

Technology

• computer and internet safety information

Friday Link Round Up February 15, 2008

Cool things other libraries are doing:

• Fish 4 Info
• Home page images and staff picks
• 25 Awesome Beta Research Tools from Libraries Around the World

Technology

• Sarah’s top ten Firefox plug-ins
• Web development cheat sheets

Advertising

• Databases - Get the word out

Assessment

• The power of a bruised ego

Friday Link Round Up February 8, 2008

Just cool (not library related, though certainly community college mission related - incredibly inspiring, worth watching the whole thing)

• TED Talk - Bill Strickland: Rebuilding America, one slide show at a time (and that’s Herbie Hancock on the piano)

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Facebook advertising
• Movie postcards advertising personal reference assistance
  • Article
  • Cards
• Technology Petting Zoos
• Video contest

Technology

• 5 (Actually, 6) Three Letter Acronyms for Librarians - XML, API, CSS, PHP,GPL
• Top 10 Tab Techniques (I’m loving “Mousewheel click links to open in a background tab”)
• Social Software in Libraries, a presentation - especially good for a discussion of the difference between tools and brands in the social software world

Friday Link Round Up February 1, 2008

Cool stuff other libraries are doing - sorry for so many, libraries must just be extra cool lately

• UT Widgets
• Maui Community College Library
• Allen County Library
• More from Allen County Library
• Creating a Librarian’s Info-Portal with Netvibes and RSS
• Proquest widgets

Musings on the future

• a cafe branch
• a nice take on Library 2.0

Technology

• Learn More Series
• ChatStat - live chat service with library potential

Humor

• books that make you dumb