Friday Link Round Up December 10, 2010

Burnout

• Burnout and How to Deal With It

Technology

• 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Not your parents’ chemistry class: Integrating library skills into the organic chemistry lab
• Game Changers for Community Colleges
• Our New Website Launch: San Jose Public Library

Friday Link Round Up October 29, 2010

Productivity

• Top 10 Ways to Organize and Streamline Your Workspace
• Compartmentalize and Get More Done

Technology

• Interesting look at e-book statistics
• 11 Social Media And Technology Books You Simply Have To Read

Friday Link Round Up October 22, 2010

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Take the Tech out of Technology

Teaching

• Digital Media and Learning: New Video Series
• Fulfillment of a higher order Placing information literacy within Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Technology

• Control over your Autocompletions

Friday Link Round Up October 15, 2010

Reference

• Free Online Full-text Articles

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Implementing a text messaging reference service on the cheap
  
• pics: banned books 2010
  
• What if we called it fact-checking?

Friday Link Round Up October 1, 2010

Displays

• Image Generators for Library Displays

Digital Divide

• 21% – Don’t Use the Internet
• Why Mobile Phone Are Not the Key to the Digital Divide
• Why mobile phones are one key to the digital divide

Teaching

• random info lit stuff from MPOW (from a community college in Portland)

Friday Link Round Up September 17, 2010

• 7 Ways to Recover from Burnout
• Is the web really dead?
• EXPO’d ( first-year student event)
• 5 Best Free Websites To Learn Foreign Languages

Friday Link Round Up August 13, 2010

Customer service

• The Impact of Rude Behavior
• The Patron Whisperer (+ contest)

Presenting

• The visual transformation of Bill Gates the presenter

Technology

• Last month Techsoup.org served up “10 Social Media Tips & Secrets” during the TechSoup Talks! webinar series. Presenter Heather Mansfield provided quick tips for using social media to better reach your library and intuition users. (via Margaret)
• 20 Tips for Planning Your Mobile Website

Friday Link Round Up August 6, 2010

Customer service

• Train your customers

Presenting

• Wisdom from the principles of Budō: Lessons for work & life

Web/Tech

• Yahoo Style Guide and Web Content Resources
• 50 Open Source Tools That Replace Popular Education Apps
• Digital Journalist Survival Guide: A Glossary of Tech Terms You Should Know

Reference

• Reference Research Review
• 16th Annual Reference Research Forum: 2010 Annual Conference Washington D.C.

July 30, 2010

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Snap & Go! Library develops and launches a mobile patron support system to support QR (Quick Response) codes
• Even Overdue Fine Notices Should Show Some Personality: Branded Messages & The Little Cloud Concept

Humor

• University Websites

Mobile

• Hacking Your Library Catalog, Part 2: Mobile Apps

Personal growth

• Coachable?
• Focus on the Big Picture to Fight the Perfectionist Trap

Tech

• Secure Passwords in Plain English

Friday Link Round Up July 9, 2010

Assessment

• UX Engagement Metrics
• How to Listen to the User and Hear the Experience

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Request a How-To Video
• Reference Cards for Info Lit – I especially like the questions on the 2nd page

Resources for Reference and Teaching

• Checklist Manifesto for the Reference Desk
• Learning Objects on the Web