Category: ‘puters

How do you find out what political issues are coming up that affect libraries in Australia? Go to the ALIA web site, click “advocacy” subscribe to the RSS feed on this page. Just look at all the RSS feeds they have! The ALA web site search gets a lot of results for RSS, but it seems to be the name of a section of RUSA.

‘What is our strategy? We do not have a strategy. But the information flow in the blogosphere has its own Way. The Way is our strategy: personal, fast, connected and networked.’ The quote comes from this article about blogging in China, but maybe, just maybe, could also be used to apply to libraries? If not now, then in the future.

I’m sure you’ve all heard the maxim “the internet inteprets censorship as danger and routes around it” but did you ever wonder how? Paul Jones from ibiblio has been preparing a talk on Censorship on the Net and has put a short list of resources on his blog.

New regular feature at Resource Shelf: new librarian web domains. Anyone know the guy who registered nakedlibrarian.com?

Aaron has a great list of tips for making sure your tech works at your library. I can not stress #4 enough. If you want to provide public access computing and you don’t have time or money to train the entire public on your weird banjaxed system, make the computers in the library work like the ones they use at home and at work, or provide clear instructions when they don’t.