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Evaluating a Web Design
via LibrarianInBlack by Sarah Houghton-Jan on May 14, 2008
Jacob Gube, at Six Revisions, has put out a list of Six Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design. As our library is getting ready for a redesign ourselves, this is a handy list of tools to check out. Measuring what the current site is doing wrong is important to making the next site do it right.via Darlene Fichter
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Official Google Reader Blog: Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere.
via googlereader.blogspot.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Eunice Finally! Google Reader finally gets more social.
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Undergrad Library Twitter at UIUC
via Tame The Web by Michael on April 24, 2008
Updating presentations today…adding this — can someone remind me how I found this? http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ugl/http://twitter.com/askundergrad
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Why Professional Librarian Journals Should Evolve into Blogs
via Tame The Web by Michael on April 24, 2008
Marcus writes:But something funny happened on the way to OJS: I became firmly convinced that the traditional journal model is antiquated for sharing research and knowledge among librarians. A better course is to develop and nurture excellent blogs, with multimedia capabilities and guaranteed preservation of the postings. This could be an entirely new blog that starts from scratch, or an...
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Seattle City Librarian Moving On
via LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News by birdie on April 11, 2008
The woman who has built the Seattle Public Library into a ubiquitous force, Deborah Jacobs, announced Wednesday she will be leaving her job as city librarian effective July 2 to join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.As deputy director for the foundation's global-libraries program, Jacobs will work with other countries to expand technology access at public libraries. Seattle Times has the...
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Woodland CA library board could have "done better job at hiring"
via LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News by Blake on April 08, 2008
In The Daily Democrat - Woodland,CA - Gregg Atkins isn't happy with The Woodland Library Board. The job announcement asked for "five years of increasingly responsible experience in professional public library administration " But he says the new librarian brings no actual library management experience to the city library.She has never managed a branch, a department, or a regular library...
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L Ron Hubbard plagiarized Scientology
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 27, 2008
Evidence that L. Rob Hubbard plagiarised Scientology from a 1934 German book called "Scientologie." The text seems to map to various hoo-haw from the cult's official doctrine, too.Link(Thanks, Marilyn!)
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Duty Calls
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on February 20, 2008
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Google Takes Panorama Pics Inside Military Base, Gets Banned
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on March 07, 2008
Associated Press writes that the Pentagon sent around a message to all defense department bases to not allow Google inside anymore. What had happened was that a Google crew asked to get access to the Fort Sam Houston base to take pictures for a panoramic view. Guess it can’t hurt asking if you’re on a mission to index all the world’s information. And indeed Google was granted access... then...
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