Updating to WP 2.2 today…if there is weirdness, that’s why.
More, including a review of new features, after the upgrade.
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Tag: Digital Culture
The most excellent Tim Spalding announced today that LibraryThing for Libraries officially went live with the Danbury Library in Danbury, CT.
I’m in awe of the results.
Seriously, I’m certain this is the future of the catalog. Not just the specific tools, but the idea of leveraging one set of data against another set using easily modified and extensible tools. It’s many-pieces-loosely-joined for the OPAC, and it’s brilliant.
I particularly love the tag browser, as well as the similar books links. Leveraging the LibraryThing data is a wonderful way to start this, but eventually libraries will need a way to share in a P2P system rather than having a central storehouse. We need to be sharing our data in a P2P format, with always-on trickle-and-compare running, updating the tag clouds and recommendations. If we just managed to collect the click-through data of our catalogs, we could manage to put together some pretty robust recommendations, all driven by scholarly activity.
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I think I will regret this
Somehow, I feel like Steven Cohen will make me rue the day I point this out, but there’s an amazing new WordPress plugin for Twitter from Alex King called Twitter Tools. It has the ability to post to twitter from your WP blog, from twitter to your WP blog (not sure what happens if you turn BOTH options on, besides the eventual heat death of the universe), and even has an API hook built in to further allow for Twitterific integration. Also built in is the ability to Daily Digest your Tweets on your blog as a one-shot post. Brilliant!
Will work for both Widget and non-Widget loving WP types. I just installed it, and love the flexibility and control. Check the ReadMe for more info.
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Just for the record
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That is all.
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Year Zero .2
The Year Zero experience is getting far more interesting.
Members of the resistance had a meeting in LA, which culminated in an appearance by Reznor. Unfortunately, it was discovered and broken up by SWAT.
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Disconnect
Does anyone else see the disconnect between having a physical message board at Computers in Libraries?
People still leave notes? Really?
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Library of the Future
Three Principles
- Covenant with our patrons
- Stay ahead of expectations
- First of the new libraries, not te last of the old
Two Goals
- Design and Build an absolutely fantastic new library (NB: ummm…thats a goal?)
- Use technology wherever it will make us more efficient and effective, and however it will meet our patron’s demands
One Rule
- Tolerate Uncertainty
Continuing Vision
- Eternal Values
- New Technology
The library technology center is in the basement! The concept of a street-level greenway that continues into the building is really clever and forward thinking.
“We’re just a cute little public library in Southwestern CT”
Lots of spaces for collaborative work, together and with the staff.
OODA Loop
- Observe
- Orient
- Decide
- Act
Technology Layers in the Library
- Infrastructure
- Administrative
- Staff
- Patron Indirect
- Patron Direct
- P2P
No Tech services, no Circ office…90% of the books are shelf-ready. They don’t care where a material comes from: the ups truck or a patron return, it’s the same workflow.
No cataloging
Outsource EVERYTHING related to Technical Services
What would a library be if it needed no booktrucks? A booktruck is full of things that aren’t in the hands of a patron.
- Active item back on shelf in 20 minutes
- Time from ordering a book to first Circ is 18 hours
NB: Holy. Shit.
No more defensive positions. Think of reference as a concierge desk.
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Future of OPAC
Tim Spalding, Librarything:
“The library is the most fun you can have with your pants on.”
“You are not better for being a mall…you can’t leave a mall”
Fun-ability
- Focus on the OPAC, the website and the opac are not seperate things.
- Allow inbound links
- Link outwards: Why wouldn’t you link to commercial service?
- Link Around: ubiquitous hyperlinks..everything is a first level entity. Everything is massively linked, and this is where serendipity comes in.
- Dress up your OPAC (syndetics): someone needs to create a free database of covers
- Get your Data out there: including RSS, but people don’t want YOUR content, peope want THEIR content. How do you tell people what you are reading from your OPAC? OMGWTF: LibraryThing sharing data with OPAC, including tags and recommendations.
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Podcasting with a Purpose
Rachael Clemens, Cal State Fullerton
Focused on NURS 505, a nursing class with 40% of the students as distance ed
Modules developed:
Welcome
What is peer review
and 10 others that I couldnt’ get because she swapped the slide too fast. 🙁
Created PPT? Huh? *shudder*
Tools used: audacity, quicktime pro, sound recorder, digital recorder, Camtasia,digital camcorder, mediasite
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RSS Feed issue
I was alerted that my RSS feeds are currently very ugly, given that there are no line breaks or links.
This is a known issue with the version of Podpress that strips the formatting…I’ve implemented a hopeful fix, and would love for someone to let me know if it’s helping.
🙂