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Nice Librarians Finish Last?


Who normally gets the girl? The guy who helps senior citizens cross the street or the dude on the motorcycle? I surmise that the guy on the motorcycle gets more attention and likely wins in the short run, but the good egg is the one who has staying power and wins in the long run. [...]

What are Emerging Technologies?


I attended an Emerging Technologies interest group yesterday co-facilitated by my new friend Bohyun Kim. It gave people a chance to talk about things that they had been using or implementing such as open source solutions, ebook readers, Google Wave, and mobile technologies. But what interested me more were some of the bigger questions the [...]

Librarians are Social Media Butterflies


In my last post I talked about how libraries can be using Twitter to connect with their users. But Twitter also allows librarians and library enthusiasts to connect with each other. I’ve been seeing a lot of great Twitter conversations going on between people in the library community. These are a few:

#followalibrarian – I love [...]