An Inside Look at a Library's Technical Services

This is a great "ER" spoof video from the Arlington Heights Memorial Library Technical Services Department. What a great use of social media to be transparent and inform in an interactive and entertaining way!

Are You Going to IL2009?

I probably won't be attending Internet Librarian 2009 on 10/16/09 in London, but this promo makes me think I'm going to miss the best conference in the universe...

IT People CAN Be Funny!

This is great! Under the pic it states: "You shouldn't leave them out where people can see them. You should change them regularly. And you shouldn't loan them out to strangers!"

Thanks for posting this to Friendfeed Michael - I laughed out loud.

Gotta Love This Social Media Presentation

WARNING: Offensive language is "sort of" present in this slideshare presentation on social media from Marta Kagan. But it is VERY well done and gets the message across. Take a look... if you dare:

What The F**K is Social Media?

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: socialmediamarketing marketing)

Social Media is Growing

Check out this post from Adam Singer's blog, TheFutureBuzz that reports some amazing statistics on social media, Web 2.0, crowdsourcing and internet usage. If you are still in the dark about these technologies, your patrons certainly are not!

If you've been following social media and want a way to increase your knowledge quickly about a certain subject, area, topic - here is a somewhat complex cheat sheet from the ReadWriteWeb on how to quickly find the most popular information coming out about that topic. A great strategy instead of just randomly reading stuff. I have it on my list of things to do - let me know how you make out!

The History of the Internet

Thanks to the ReadWriteWeb for pointing me to this easy to understand animated video of the History of the Internet. It is from Melih Bilgil. Be sure to read the post on RWW which explains the use of a new type of info graphic used in the video (PICOL icons). Very nicely done!


History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

Participate in the Perceptions 2008 International Library Automation Survey

Help out Marshall Breeding by going to this link and contributing to this year's Perceptions 2008 International Library Automation Survey. You can see the results of last year's inaugural version of the survey here.

Listen to the Diane Rehm Radio Show Tomorrow!

CORRECTION (posted Thurs 1/8/09)- I misread my email yesterday and this actually aired YESTERDAY (Wed 1/7/09) - NOT today. Bummer, but easily fixed. Go to this page on their site and you can subscribe to the podcast to hear yesterday's show. Sorry for the confusion!

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I received a notice through PA Commonwealth Libraries' PASYS list that tomorrow's Diane Rehm Radio Show from WAMU 88.5 FM (American University Radio - NPR Station in DC) will focus on the the role of libraries in economic hard times. This will be at 11am EST. Tune in online here. Diane will be interviewing:

Carla Hayden, executive director, Enoch Pratt Free Library and president of the American Library Association

Jim Rettig, President of the American Library Association. He is also the University Librarian at the Boatwright Memorial Library at the University of Richmond, Virginia.

Ginnie Cooper, Chief Librarian for the District of Columbia Public Library. She is the Former Executive Director of the Brooklyn Public Library.

THIS IS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO PLACE A CALL TO THE SHOW OR SEND THEM AN EMAIL .

Would you like to hear me sing?

I don't know if I should be honored or embarassed, but at the end of the last T is for Training Podcast that I participate in every other week, I was asked to do an off the cuff, a capella version of a song written by Legal Aid Education called the Consortium Training for Trainers Theme Song. It is to be sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survivie". Here are the great words they put together.

Just so you know, I had no idea I would be doing this ahead of time! The words had been sent out and I jokingly said we should do it (as a group) and was asked at the end of the show to sing it solo - yikes! So, if you would like to hear it, check out the link in this post or just click here.

Make Good Subject Lines for Your Emails

And you will get better results. Thanks to the Accidental Trainer News for pointing me to this nice tutorial about creating good Subject Lines for Emails. Is there anything more annoying than getting an email with the subject line RE:RE:RE:That Topic? Make everyone's lives betters by taking a look at this short eLearning course.