New books vs. Old books – What’s up with the smell of old books?
Every wonder about the smell of old books? Here is what is happening.
2207, 2014
Category Archives: Libraries
1906, 2014
The difference between marketing and community
This is excellent article, because it gets to the purpose of social media. Marketing is to sell something and while higher ed (and especially libraries) have things to sell, we also are about making something – communities, literacy, empowering our communities, educating our students, energizing our faculty, helping … So, we are both. The fundamental difference between marketing and community
2005, 2014
Social Media Tips for Libraries (& others!)
Social media tips for libraries – great stuff here Social media for librarians in the public sector – Health Sciences Library Groups Conference 2013 from Krishna De
1012, 2013
The song of the library staff
This is cool.
2110, 2013
3D makerspaces & libraries (webinar/video)
interesting and some good insights.
3004, 2013
Embedded librarianship notes from an ACRL webinar
Getting started with Embedded Librarianship 1. Define partners 2. goals – priorities 3. How to embed a. traditional classroom : co-teacher model; works well with 1st year students b. embedding in LMS/ Course Manageemnt Systems “virtual” librarian c. Project teams – business programs, student groups, etc. d. liaison – student groups(?) e. curriculum (accreditation, new departments, new programs, reorganization) f.
1204, 2013
Cataloging: Cuttering resources
I put this together for someone else and thought I would share it with you too! ________________________________________cutter tables athttp://www.itsmarc.com/crs/mergedProjects/cutter/cutter/basic_table_cutter.htm and the cataloging calculator is a pretty nifty tool:http://calculate.alptown.com/ This is a good overall resource:http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/mergedProjects/cutter/cutter/contents.htm One of the main things to be aware of in cuttering, is the local shelflist. 😉 As for creating call numbers, for us that would be
2901, 2013
Catalogers don’t blog (well some do – at least 10 years!)
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
2801, 2013
The current state of libraries and trends (infographic)
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