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Musings about librarianship: The Librarian at the reference desk. How do you manage your workflow at the reference desk?Reference desk duty is probably the most interesting part of my day, as I get to interact with users. One thing that interests me greatly is how different librarians setup their systems to respond to users. As I see it, there are two main competiting interests. On one hand, you want to be ...
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Musings about librarianship: GoogleWave - First thoughtsIt has being a crazy week, I was stressing out having to give my first ever presentation at the Libraries of the future seminar (with the new presentation tool Prezi !). Google decided to make things more complicated by sending me an Invite to Google Wave ! I promptly gave it out to ...
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Friending Libraries: Why libraries can become nodes in people’s social networksLee discussed Pew Internet's latest findings and why they suggest that libraries can play a role in people’s social networks in the future. He described the reasons that people rely more and more on their social networks as they share ideas, learn, solve problems, and seek social support. And he ...
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Musings about librarianship: Mashup your Library's Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, Facebook accounts!I've being thinking about how libraries can mashup their Twitter, Flickr, Youtube and other web 2.0 accounts and display them using cool visualizations. Visualization on screensavers Initially I toyed with the idea of displaying rss feeds using screensavers. Software such as Nuparadigm's ...
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Musings about librarianship: Official Library Twitter accounts- what factors are correlated with number of followers?After posting about what Library Twitter accounts are doing here and here , I stumbled upon a more efficient way of getting the statistics and this resulted in the following batch of statistics (Number of followers, Number of following, Followers/following ratio, Age of account (based on ...
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Musings about librarianship: Managing Twitter accounts for libraries - What are libraries doing?There is considerable literature by now on handling reference and/or communicating with patrons via phone, email and Instant Messaging , but would the same considerations apply for Twitter? Still certain issues/questions (if not answers) would be similar for all types of channels. First ...
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