Monthly Archives: September 2008

1009, 2008

Free webinar – Second Circle Event Technologies – Beyond Registration to Community Engagement

robinna/ September 10, 2008/ software, Training, training / tutorials, networking/ 0 comments

Although not specifically library related, considering how many seminars, workshops, and conferences we all attend, this might be an interesting webinar (and free!) Second Circle Event Technologies – Beyond Registration to Community EngagementSeptember 18, 20082:00 PM EDT | Register Now! Events and meetings are a critical element of your overall market relationship management (MRM) strategy – providing customers, employees, partners,

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0909, 2008

Sarcoma Patient Registry

robinna/ September 9, 2008/ Design, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

For those of you who are dealing with the impact of Desmoid tumors (in my case my sister), please do check out the Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation. ————————————Please join DTRF in supporting the Sarcoma Patient Registry developed by The Sarcoma Foundation of America. You can start the process by going to DTRF’s website (www.dtrf.org). On the bottom left hand side

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0809, 2008

Reference in transition (interesting Stephen Abram article)

robinna/ September 8, 2008/ software, Culture, social media, Professional Life, 3D/ 0 comments

Although a good portion of what I read in terms of change in libraries is cataloging/metadata/systems related (metadata for electronic & digital objects, nex-gen catalogs, rda, opensource ILS, products to enhance user experience that work with the existing catalog (e.g., vufind, etc.), changes in LC policy, etc.), occasionally an article which is more reference oriented wanders across my desk. I’ve

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0609, 2008

OpenOffice 3.0

robinna/ September 6, 2008/ opensource/ 0 comments

Nice preview of openoffice 3 (woohoo!) Honestly, I haven’t missed dumping Microsoft Office yet… …and if you’d like to see a little demo, try this one which covers all of the types of openoffice (databases, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations):