Friday Link Round Up July 3, 2009

Teaching & Learning

• Teaching Generation M handbook–”hot off the presses!”
• Language Learning Through Social Media
• New Neilson report debunks many teen myths
• Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed — How to Foolproof Your Mind, Part I

Technology

• Mendeley citation software, first impressions
• Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data

Professional Development

• 2010 Emerging Leaders application process now open

Friday Link Round Up June 26, 2009

• Google Launches a Community Service Search Engine
• Geek the library
• 10 Things Millenials Could Teach CMOs About Marketing
• ways to help new computer users

Friday Link Round Up June 19, 2009

Food for thought

• drive-by advocacy.
• Do we need library ombudsmen?

Tools

• CIA World Factbook Launches New Web Site
• Social Networking & Web Tools
• Google Squared Goes Live, Formats Your Searches Into a Spreadsheet
• How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website

Cool things other libraries are doing

• For Dummies Display
• Welcome signs sets the tone for your library

Friday Link Round Up May 15, 2009

• ASK video
• Find better Windows, Mac, Linux and online applications
• Google adds new filters, visualized results
• Owned? Legal terms of video hosting services compared
• Seven Productivity Tips For People That Hate GTD
• Subject guides on web 2.0 startup pages – 12 widgets
• Teaching Librarians About Teaching

Friday Link Round Up May 8, 2009

Instruction

• Screencasting Patron POVs, a TTW Guest Post by Mick Jacobsen
• Adventures in Library Instruction podcast

Technology & Tools

• Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University
• Online system rates images by aesthetic quality
• Adding search power to public data
• Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education
• BookGlutton Widget: Embeddable Book Club for Your Blog or Site

Friday Link Round Up May 1, 2009

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Organizing Books By Subjects: Part I & Part II
• Glendale Patrons on Web Site for Library Week

Management

• The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500

Media

• Free Music Archive Launches in Beta
• 30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media

Humor

• Another one for the bulletin board

Friday Link Round Up April 24, 2009

Technology

• WhichDateWorks.com
• Mind Map: Best Online Collaboration Tools
• Addictomatic: Inhale the Web

Usability

• play nice & make friends with human language
• lithuanian library websites look nice

Just for fun

• Elmo and the Bookaneers
• StillTasty: Your Ultimate Shelf Life Guide

Friday Link Round Up April 17, 2009

The all cool things edition:

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Borrow an Energy Meter with your library card
• Library of Congress on YouTube
• It Has Computers, Gives Advice and Is Free
• Enjoying the Community: The Beginnings of Virtual Common Spaces at Lisle Library District
• Open To All ~ At All Times
• Be Careful What You Tweet For
• full circle.

Friday Link Round Up April 10, 2009

FYI

• National Library Workers Day, April 14
• National Library Week 2009
• American Library Association launches ALA Connect

Online tools

• Five Best Image Editing Tools

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Lunches with TED

Just for fun

• Web Trend Map
• The Bodleian’s treasures, available to all
  

Friday Link Round Up March 27, 2009

• Google’s Wonder Wheel Experiment
• Healthfinder.gov tutorial for librarians
• Enhancing Education
• Make Better Presentations – The Anatomy of a Good Speech
• A Way Out of E-mail Overload
• How to Delete Accounts from Any Website