OCLC International Study on Perception of Libraries and Information Resources
Check out OCLC’s report on users’ perceptions of libraries and information resources, an international study on information seeking habit and preferences of consumers from Australia, Canada, Singapore, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. You can download the full report in PDF format (around 290 pages). Read more
White Paper on Library 2.0
TALIS, a leading provider of products and services in libraries in UK and Ireland, released a white paper on “Do Libraries Matter : The Rise of Library 2.0″. From the executive summary, the paper says: Read more
Orkut?
If you login to your Google Account, you’ll see a link to new services on the left navigation panel. One of these services is Orkut. Read more
Webinar on Weblogs & Libraries
Sirsi Dynix is sponsoring an online seminar on “Weblogs and Libraries: Communication, Conversation and the Blog People“. Michael Stephens of Tame the Web will give the presentation which will examine blogs and the bloggers as well all point to the future of the medium. Read more
Weekly Techno Word In Your Inbox
FromDynix Institute comes Word to the Wise, a weekly list of library technology word which is aimed at helping librarians stay in tuned with the latest techno buzzwords. It defines and describe comprehensively the selected word for the week and even provides links for further reading. You can subscribe to this service via the Dynix E-mail Subscription Center.
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About Me
My name is Arnold Zafra and I run aczafra.com. I am a cataloging librarian Senior Information Analyst by day and blogger by night.
I am a 37 year old Filipino, living in Manila, Philippines.
aczafra.com is my personal blog where I post anything that catches my fancy, but mostly about tech stuff.
For more of my serious writing gigs, you’ll find me at the ff:
- Search Engine Journal
- Rotorblog
- Gadgetell
- Appletell
- Cell Phone News
- Eee PC Blog
- PinoyTravelBlog
- Pinoy Urban Blog
I also maintain a travel blog called Our Paradise Philippines where I chronicle my various road trips, together with my family driving our small but reliable Kia Picanto.
And lastly, I’m also into digital photography, having recently bought a trusty Canon 400D DSLR.
Welcome to aczafra.com
At last! After almost two days of trying to upload and install wordpress in this hosting site, and at the same time tinkering with the cpanel of this site, I finally made it! Home at last. My own domain name, graciously hosted by master Yuga himself. Thank you! Read more
Catalog Your Books Online with Library Thing
Want to catalog your personal collection of books and share your list to friends and other people? You can do so with the use of the Library Thing (Beta), “an online service to help people catalog their books easily, find people with similar libraries, get suggestions from people with your tastes and so forth.” Read more
noFLA : Non-Female Librarian Association
I got this link to the NoFla from the Lethal Librarian. And I find it amusing, really. Read more
Ultra Electro Magnetic Jam
For the past several days, I have been convincing myself whether to shell out a few hundred bucks to buy this compilation of Eraserheads songs performed by various artists, or the solo album of Freestyle’s Jinky Vidal. But when I read Zarah’s review of the album, I finally succumbed to the call of collegiate music as inspired by the Eraserheads. Read more
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