Monthly Archives: January 2013

Catalogers don’t blog (well some do – at least 10 years!)

robinna/ January 29, 2013/ Libraries, social media/ 0 comments

I’ve been blogging since mmm… 2000, maybe 2001? I didn’t do a very good job of announcing myself. I just jumped into the stream… The first entry for content divergent is 2003, but before that I was photoblogging (story and some screenshots here) that evolved into a more personal site which was featured on about.com (predominantly in the migraines section). In

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Artists uses tweets to make art – thoughts on twitter TOS and more

robinna/ January 27, 2013/ social media, twitter/ 0 comments

I found this project really interesting given that I both tweet AND I sometimes incorporate materials (including text snippets usually from out of copyright materials) into my artwork..  I do wonder how twitterers feel about this… So here is what this particular project does: Many tweets have GPS coordinates embedded in them. Shindelman and Larson exploited those geographic points by

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Not at ALA? No problem – harvesting alamw news from twitter…

robinna/ January 27, 2013/ Libraries, twitter/ 0 comments

For those of you who couldn’t make it to ala:you can see all of the tagged ala midwinter (#alamw13) tweets at this link https://twitter.com/search?q=alamw13&src=tyah ; you can also save it in your twitter searches so that you can see as many posts  ðŸ˜‰ Perhaps, even more useful, use the RSS feed for this hashtag http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=alamw13 to subscribe via your reader, which

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Aaron Swartz (Reddit, RSS) dies; JSTOR provides limited free access to archives

robinna/ January 21, 2013/ publishing/ 0 comments

Interesting news if you’ve not been following these stories: JSTOR“The archives of more than 1,200 journals are now available for limited free reading by the public, JSTOR announced today. Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to three articles for free every two weeks.”more at:http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/01/academic-libraries/many-jstor-journal-archives-now-free-to-public/  As a side note:For those of you who followed the Aaaron

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2011 Professional activity highlights…

robinna/ January 1, 2013/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

2011 10/6 – GLA/COMO Paper presentation “The effect of automation on academic library staffing: A discussion” (co-author); Maximizing Your Social Media Presence: Tools and Tips to Save You Time and Effort (Presenter) 10/5 – USG Staff Council Conference – Using Technology to Improve Customer Service (Speaker) 9/20 – Social Media for Government – Tools You Can Use To Leverage Social

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