One of the Best Careers for 2007 is – Librarianship
U.S. News released its list of Best Careers for 2007, and guess what? librarians are going to be one of the most sought after profession this year as the need for professionals that will help users navigate all the information online heightens. Read more
4 Habits of Highly Effective Librarians
Inspired by Steven Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Todd Gilmann, librarian for literature in English at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library wrote this 4 Habits of Highly Effective Librarians. As highlighted by Covey’s seven habits, the key to being effective is having to work as part of a team.
In the 4 Habits of Effective Librarians, Gilmann emphasized on the librarian’s interpersonal relationship with his/her co-workers to achieve success and happiness in the profession that they chose to practice. Read more
Linux To Digitize LC Holdings of American Historical Documents
Linux is set to embark on a project to help the Library of Congress preserve its American Historical collection using Linux very own digitizing system. With a $2 million grant from the Sloan Foundation, Linux will use the Scribe technology which is a combination of both hardware and software that scans books producing high-quality images and manipulates including OCR and compression techniques. Read more
University of Michigan’s Social Computing Degree
[via The Library Stuff]
The University of Michigan School of Information has launched the first ever Graduate Course in Information Science with Specialization in Social Computing. Social computing encompasses social bookmarks, social networks, and other online technology which involves “user generated content” information. And yes of course, it includes blogging. Read more
Five Weeks to a Social Library
..is the first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. It was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity for librarians who do not otherwise have access to conferences or continuing education and who would benefit greatly from learning about social software.
MSN Live’s Answer to Google Books
MSN’s Live Search Books has been released in beta version. The Live Search Books portal is a pretty simple interface with a simple blurb and the MSN live search box. Read more
Google Co-op Custom Search Engine for Librarians
The Filipino Librarian has an interesting post about LISZEN, which is actually an application of Google Co-op, or the Google Custom Search Engine which was launched a couple of weeks ago. Yuga tested it a couple of weeks ago with his Yugatech Search. Read more
1st Meeting of Philippine Experts on Cataloging
This thursday, I will be attending the 1st Meeting of Philippine Experts on Cataloging at the National Library of the Philippines. This meeting aims to replicate the 4th IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloging which was earlier held in Seoul Korea. Read more
The Librarian’s Adventure Continues
Got this from Library Stuff.
The sequel to the Librarian’ Quest for the Spear, dubbed as: The Librarian 2 – Return to King Solomon’s Mines will be out on December 3. Read more
Shelfari: Another One of Them Social Networking Tools
After LibraryThing now comes Shelfari, another one of them social networking tools/web 2.0 applications technology. Shelfari let its members, called shelfarians (go figure), to show off their personal book collection via a virtual shelf. Read more
Google Literacy Portal
Looks like Google is really out to win the hearts of the academe, scholars, librarians and other literacy advocates. After Google scholar, Google News, Google Books, comes a portal to host them all. Welcome The Google Literacy Project. Read more
Where are thou PLAI?
This post is addressed to my colleagues who read this blog regularly, who happen to see this blog while google searching, or via whatever means that directed you into this blog. I have just one simple question, but a relevant one I supposed. Does the mother association of Filipino librarians, the Philippine Librarians’Â Association, Inc. (PLAI)Â have it’s own website? Read more
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