Last Friday a colleague of mine (who also happens to be a fellow UIUC GSLIS alum — GSLIS alums are plentiful where I work!) gave a lunchtime presentation introducing the social web to other colleagues in our library organization. We only had an hour in which to present a broad overview and as a [...]

The news that Newsgator was giving away its software suite for individuals — including FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, Newsgator Go, and others — gave me the incentive to give their offerings a try.  I have been a loyal fan of Google Reader (or Bloglines — hey, I’m fickle) for several years and didn’t see any substantial benefit [...]

In Peter Scott’s blog I read yesterday morning that the latest issue of Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship is now available. I had heard of this publication before but hadn’t really looked at it. (It is “a quarterly publication of the Science & Technology Section, Association of College & Research Libraries.”) [...]

The timing of this news story is quite interesting:  Madeleine L’Engle died today.  It’s interesting because just two days ago, I finished reading her classic book, A Wrinkle in Time, for the very first time.  I enjoyed it, but I’m not sure I really understand its deeper meaning.  I know this confession makes me sound stupid [...]

Ann Ercelawn, a dear friend and co-moderator of the SERIALST discussion list, posted a survey on that list yesterday that asked for responses to a series of questions relating to how we keep current within the LIS field. Below is the response I sent her. It’s not as detailed or complete as it [...]

These are my links for May 15th through May 31st:

Hypotyposeis: Sketches in Biblical Studies - This blog was recommended to me by a former student and it covers topics of interest to me including biblical studies and the role of blogging in society.
(( litefeeds )) - A simple but elegant RSS application for mobile phone [...]

These are my links for May 2nd through May 14th:

Ex Libris - Incident Report for Endeavor Products -
ELUNA: Ex Libris Users of North America - The user group website for North American customers of Ex Libris.
Letters to Christians in the U.S.A. - This is a post on a blog maintained by Brian McLaren containing some [...]

A lot has been written in other blogs, in conference reports, in articles and elsewhere about the growing technology gap between the “haves” and the “have nots.”  It definitely exists; what is debatable is how rapidly the gap is increasing.  I was interested to note on a TV monitor in my company’s cafeteria a brief [...]

I thought the following article in the Chicago Tribune today provided a nice, easy-to-understand overview of RSS, with a focus on how it can lead you to good deals. I have proven this to be true probably dozens of times. One of the best deals I ever received was via an RSS feed [...]

These are my links for February 18th through February 19th:

FeedBurner - A service for adding a lot of additional blog bling, for free, including email subscriptions, traffic statistics, and other stuff.
Page2RSS - Creates an RSS feed for any web page so that you can be alerted when a change has been made. Checks each [...]