Libraries Using Twitter
Fact – Libraries in the U.S. are so into web 2.0. Proof – There are so many U.S. Libraries who are already using Twitter. I don’t really know for whatever purpose. But Philippine libraries ought to follow this trend. Read more
Interesting Read: Lost in the Pixels of a Good Book
A certified book lover finds her way into the realm of e-books and e-books readers. Good points and arguments. Great title for a blog post. Read – Lost in the Pixels of a Good Book.
The Library of Congress Now Has a YouTube Channel
Well, it might have taken them that long to have their own YouTube channel, but they may have done it the right way. The Library of Congress has just made public its own YouTube Channel. YouTube must be feeling lucky by now. I could just imagine the hits this channel will be getting from the library crowd, and even the public in general. Read more
SLIA Contest on the Impact of Blogs and Blogging to LIS
Zarah, the School Librarian in Action is running an essay writing contests re blogs, blogging and the Library Profession. The contest runs until March 25, 2009. The writer of the best essay will get a token gift cheque from Zarah. And what does she want to read from your essays? Read more
New Age School Librarian
It’s very seldom that a librarian gets featured in a major US daily, so I might as well highlight this NYT article. Meet Stephanie Rosalia, a school librarian at Public School 225, a combined elementary and middle school in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Read more
Google Book Search on your iPhone, Lovely!
What’s next, the Library of Congress Collection?
Google Book Search Goes Mobile Read more
The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008
Here’s a solid proof that librarian’s blogs are growing – 600+ liblogs covered by the book Liblog Landscape 2007-2008 by Walt Crawford. Here’s the official book description:
provide some of today’s most interesting and useful library literature. This book offers a broad look at English-language liblogs as they are and as they’ve changed between 2007 and 2008. The book includes more than 600 blogs with detailed analysis of 27 metrics for 2007 and 2008 and changes from 2007 to 2008–and, for 143 of them, 2006 as well. Through tables, charts and text, we explore the liblog landscape.
Google Book Search API in Library Catalogs
Librarians who are against the Google Book Project may not find this useful. But for those who have embraced the new web, the Google Book Search API is certainly a welcome development. What can the Google Book Search API do? It lets you put a link in your library catalog entries that points to an item’s information in Google Book Search. Read more
Web 2.0, What’s in It for Libraries and Librarians
Just attended a forum sponsored by my alumni association (UPLSAA) on Web 2.0. The speaker was Jonas de los Reyes of Yehey.com’s ecommerce unit. Jonas is also a blogger and a very active one, unlike me. Read more
When Pinoy Blograrians Meet, A Mafia is Born
The title of this post is dedicated to Juned, a Pinoy librarian blogging at Baratillo and A Feed is Born of b5Media. And this post is dedicated to the fivePinoy blogging librarians who once in a while get featured in Von’s Pinoy Big Biblioblogsphere. These five Pinoy blogging librarians got together this afternoon at A Different Bookstore in Serenda, the Fort to pay tribute to the Godfather of PBB (not Big Brother, but Pinoy Big Biblioblogsphere) Von : -) Ok, let’s get serious now. Read more
University Library from Asia Joins Google Book Project
The latest library to join Google’s ambitious book digitization project is Keio University Libraries in Japan. Keio University Libraries boost of around 120,000 titles of books in the public domain and would add to the growing number of books Google has been digitizing to make available to the public online. Read more
Study Results: Librarians are the Most Stressed Workers
BBC is running this story about a study done by psychologist, Saquib Saddiq saying that librarians are the most unhappy with their jobs compared to five other occupations. Based on a survey of 300 respondents coming from five types of occupations – firefighters, police officers, train operators, teachers and librarians , the “librarians” who responded said that they find their current job unchallenging and repetitive. Although, there has been many studies of this sort and this one is just one of them studies, I still find it interesting not because it involves librarians but because of one findings that the study showed. Read more
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