Fun fact about the ALA Online Itinerary Planner, it doesn’t seem to require a password, just a login with a valid email address. This means, if you know the email address of any registered conference attendee, you can look at and even alter the events in their planner.
ala gets tsunami page up
ALA has a page up consolidating information on the damage and relief efforts for libraries following the tsunami disaster.
not that kind of weblog, analyzing your server logs
Having a library web site is just the beginning of reaching your patrons. You can analyze your web server logs and learn what they’re looking at, and not looking at, to learn to serve them more effectively.
The most surprising of these is a page that lists the library’s periodical holdings. The heavy use of this page has emphasized the importance of creating complete holdings for our journals in the Web catalog. Additionally, users prefer the alphabetical listing of the library’s database to a list of full-text databases or a list of databases by subject.
plablog
Start watching, it’s happening: PLA Blog blogging from the ALA Midwinter conference and “The Official Blog of the Public Library Association”
MLA conference blog
In other conference blogging news, the Music Library Association is going to be live-blogging their conference coming up in February. The blog is already up and running here. [thanks beckie]