For those interested in Evergreen or opensource library projects…. The Evergreen Documentation Interest Group needs your input to help prioritize its activities for the next few months. Please share the following survey link widely. We are casting a wide net — we want input from as many roles as possible, from project coordinators to people working the front lines in
If you haven’t heard/read (and you don’t follow my tweets — georgiawebgurl@twitter), Friendfeed has been bought by Facebook. Read about it here and here. On another note, I asked for an invite for Wowd. I am interested to see how this will differ from StumbleUpon. Both seem to be in the popularity contest site recommendation field, but Wowd seems to
lots of cool stuff.========The Digital Library of Georgia and its partners have recently released several new digital collections as part of the Georgia HomePLACE initiative: Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive, 1808-1920 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/milledgeville/ Columbus Enquirer, 1828-1890 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/enquirer/ Macon Telegraph, 1826-1908 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/telegraph/ (These newspaper databases require a one-time free plug-in download to view images.) Georgia State Fair, Macon, 1886-1960 (in partnership with the
A colleague and I were having an interesting chat about facebook in the workplace. I have my own rules (and practices) for facebook, given that my “friends” are a diverse mix of colleagues, friends + family (some even cross those lines) and drawn from the various areas and interests in my life. Given that I’ve articulated these verbally many times,
A few free web tools:http://freetools.edublogs.org/
āIād have to say we probably lost books in the numbers of tens of thousands. There are three main book areas in that part of the library…all of those are completely under water….ā Officials say the floodwaters caused at least $1 million in damage to the library main branch. Recovery fund donations:The Library Foundation301 York StreetLouisville, KY 40203 http://www.wfpl.org/2009/08/04/library-damage-at-least-1-million/
The final report of the Open Library Environment project is available for reading. ā„ this project with its focus on the behind the scenes… because if the behind the scenes (processing system/database/data) doesn’t work very well, the public interface is not going to work very well. I am definitely keeping an eye on this project and I hope to be
The deadline for submitting applications to the ALA Emerging Leaders program has been EXTENDED to August 7, 2009. The original due date was this Friday, July 31, 2009. Details on the program can be found on the ALA web site at http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/hrdr/abouthrdr/emergingleaders.cfm
This is for my mom š ————–GenealogyWise.com is a brand new social networking site, similar to Facebook, but dedicated to genealogists. In fact, it was officially announced the first part of July. GenealogyWise.com is a site with forums, blogs, videos, RSS feeds and more – again, all related to genealogy. Developed by WorldVitalRecords.com, it looks to be a great tool