Technology
Life Skills
Reference
Professional Development
Cool things other libraries are doing
Friday Link Round Up June 13, 2008
Cool things other libraries are doing
Learning from outside the field
- Web Sites for Reporters “It’s an interesting view into the research world of other information pros.”
Marketing
Just interesting
Friday Link Round Up June 6, 2008
A big one this week as I’m getting caught up from Intersession…
Cool things other libraries/ITS are doing
- The Space Is the Message: First Assessment of a Learning Studio
- Starbucks asks for Feedback (see comments for the library example)
- Kid Book Reviews on StoryTubes
- Office hours
- mobile versions of library web sites
Teaching and Learning
Fun tools
Food for thought
Friday Link Round Up May 30, 2008
Technology
- The 100 Best Products of 2008 from PC World
- The 100 top Web apps for 2008
- Shrink-O-Matic: Batch Image Resizer
- Compfight: The Perfect Flickr Image Search Tool
Work-Life Balance
Cool things other libraries are doing
Friday Link Round Up May 9, 2008
Fun
- Videos from UPenn - Be sure to check out “This place is Hot!”
- Library Videos - a blog collecting library videos
Technology
- ClipX - a tiny clipboard history manager
- Squash - Fast, cross platform batch image resizer
- Simply Google - a one stop list of all Google tools
Cool things other libraries are doing
- Keyword Tweet Clouds
- Free2 - The Free2 campaign is a chance for us to invite more dialogue about how libraries can continue to grow, improve and help meet our communities’ most pressing challenges.
- Library of Congress - myLOC
- “Through myLOC.gov, the new personalized Web site of the Library of Congress, patrons can continue their exploration of the world’s largest collection of knowledge, culture and creativity. Visitors can bookmark areas of interest online and continue their exploration of the Library’s collections by connecting with digital content from their in-person visit. The site also features interactive versions of the same exhibition content physically at the Library, educational resources, information for visitors and a page where users can create their own virtual collection of Library objects.”
Friday Link Round Up May 2, 2008
Technology
- Podcasting in Plain English (another great video from Common Craft)
- Top 100 Tools for learning (includes A Core Toolset for Learning 200
Customer Service
- Nordstrom Quality Customer Service
- Starbucks Ideas worth stealing (it’s not about providing coffee!)
Humor
Friday Link Round Up April 25, 2008
In case you missed it
- The new library fad: borrow a person
- Henry Jenkins webcast archive and live blog from info-mational
Humor
- A rap about usable web design
A round up of some screenshot tools
- Super Screenshot - enter a URL, get a screenshot
- Skitch - “the internet camera, snap, draw, share”
- Jing - download, captures images and video of anything on your computer
- Snapper - Firefox add-on, easily saves only a portion of the page
- Fireshot - Firefox add-on - can save the whole page, even what’s not currently visible, includes editing functions
- Page Saver Basic - Firefox add-on - can save a whole page or just the visible portion
- Screengrab - Firefox add-on - Save or copy the current page, viewport or selection in a png file
- Just hit print screen and it will save what you can see to your clipboard
Friday Link Round Up April 22, 2008
… A little late and less up to date since I was away at TLA, expect a larger one this Friday
Going Green
- Going Green @ Your Library (blog - not associated with me at all, they just happened to pick the same template)
- GreenPrint offers free paper-saving software
- iChapters
- Top 10 Easiest Ways to Green Your Office
Humor
Friday Link Round Up April 11, 2008
Reference
- A Guide to Online Resources in Library and Information Science from the Library of Congress
Cool Tools
- Find a meeting spot with A Place Between Us
Tech
- Label your flash drive with your name and number
- 10 Killer Firefox Extensions That You Probably Don’t Know About
Security
