List maniac Michael Stephens has a good list of tech things good for librarians to know about. It’s a great big hyperlinked list of tech terms and descriptions and worthwhile no matter what your tech level of knowledge is.
RSS, darnitall!
I think this is Jenny quoting Steven quoting Fiona, but in any case, Dynix is going to have RSS feed options from their catalog and Seattle Public Library is going to be using their new OPAC real soon now. As a small-library web developer, I just drool thinking of how easy it would be to pull OPAC content in to an otherwise static “new titles” page, as Jenny says.
can I get things done @ my library?
I don’t know if you’re at all familiar with the GTD [getting things done] organizing craze sweeping the blogosphere. Merlin — a non-librarian with a great blog — asks the lazyweb “Can I get an RSS feed of my library books?” Discussion ensues. [thanks bill]
books, delicious!
One of the joys of serendipitously dipping into random blogs by way of keyword searching Feedster or Technorati is the occasional discovery like this one: booksdelicious, a pretty new blog written by a pretty happy-sounding librarian. Be sure to read the weeding entry.
America the Book back in MS libraries
The 15-week best selling book America The Book, besides being unavailable at Wal-Mart, was also being banned by the Southern Mississippi library system because it contains the heads of the Supreme Court justices superimposed on age-appropriate naked bodies. Apparently, as of today, the library system has reversed their decision.