Infopeople has done the seemingly impossible. They have created a library catalog tutorial that works with just about any online library catalog. It’s a little generic but I found that even though my OPAC at work is pretty much nothing like the one they illustrate, people can still understand how to map from one to the other. Point your users to it, it’s really helpful.
Category: ‘puters
Cites & Insights updates via Atom feed
Walt has started a little blog page to post announcements when he’s done a new issue of Cites & Insights. It includes announcements and brief tables of contents. You can subscribe to the Atom feed if that’s what deweys your decimal.
if you got to choose, what OS would your public library use?
Something to chew on… say you were designing a public library from the ground up, and had no major funding hurdles. Would you still go with Windows? What else could you use? A slashdot discussion. [unalog]
rad ref, for all your radical reference needs
An idea whose time has come: Radical Reference. Originally planned for the RNC protests, it has already expanded to fill other pressing radical informationneeds. Here’s a recent article from the NY Sun about it. A little more information at the NYC Indymedia site. Now that’s more in the MYbrarian model, don’t you think?
Google tutorial
Google Guide is a site that helps nvoice and experienced users learn more about how to effectively use Google. The author has written How to do Everything with Google and has released this tutorial site under a Creative Commons license. Apparently she did some serious research on Google Answers to prepare.