Friday Link Round Up March 28, 2008

Web 2.0

• who says librarians (and teachers) don’t like tags
• Why should libraries be socially networking?
• 7 Things You Should Know About Google Apps

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Library Outposts, a new service model for urban public libraries
• Library Lookup - alerts you when a book from your Amazon wishlist becomes available at the library - via

Humor

• New Series of National Library Week Videos

Just neat

• LoudLit - Literature for your eyes and ears

Friday Link Round Up March 21, 2008

Marketing

• Using Trading Cards as Promotional Tool
• 16 Top Social Media Strategies for Success

Technology

• 20 Amazing Firefox Shortcuts to Save You Time and Money
• More Google tips and tricks
• Web Developer’s Field Guide

Trendspotting

• 20 Things to Watch
  • article
  • presentation

For fun

• 80 Online Resources for Book Lovers
• The world’s 50 most powerful blogs

New Library Professional Development Blog March 18, 2008

I’ve just started a Library Professional Development Blog. So many of these opportunities come across my desk each day and I collect up the free and relevant ones for my library as part of my Staff Development Team responsibilities, but they go into a password protected wiki. Now they’re all available and tagged for general consumption. Feel free to spread the word or to submit items.

Friday Link Round Up March 14, 2008

Search

• Search Engines List

Web 2.0

• 25 Useful Social Networking Tools for Librarians
• BusinessWeek Talks Widgets

Instruction

• What We Can Learn About Instructional Design from Post-it™ Notes

Technology/Assessment

• I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users
• QuestionForm online surveys

Friday Link Round Up March 7, 2008

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Library Spotlight: Harper College Brings Web 2.0 to Students
• Stunning Library Website Redesign
• Vancouver Public Library’s redesign

Technology

• The Best Free Software - From PC Mag: “157 software tools. No fees. No expiration dates. No problems. Sometimes even no downloads. No kidding.”
• Drupal for Libraries - Slides
• Twitter in plain English

Miscellany

• Numbrary - “Collections of numbers need as much attention online as do collections of words. With Numbrary®, they will receive that attention.”

World Cafe photos up at Flickr March 6, 2008

Go take a look…