tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64159899498158498332011-07-08T07:41:15.748-04:00Nedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718148867620481922noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415989949815849833.post-47667594583600809242010-04-02T12:50:00.002-04:002010-04-02T12:53:54.011-04:00My department colleagues have gotten me thinking about 23 things again, and feeling bad about leaving this unfinished for so long. So I'm rebooting this project at a new location:<br /><br /><a href="http://tanque.org/23things">Tanque.org/23things</a> <br /><br />I recently started playing around with Wordpress on my own site, and I like it. Anyhoo, off to the new library site...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6415989949815849833-4766759458360080924?l=nedatthelibrary2.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718148867620481922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415989949815849833.post-90050890719966097132009-02-17T08:45:00.002-05:002009-02-17T08:51:29.608-05:00Tried to add "Add This" once before with Blogger's newer Template system but didn't get lucky. I reverted to the manual template (without the widgets, so no avatar for now) and got it to work. Now all my readers can easily post my library blog entries to their Facebook pages.<br /><br />Except it's linking to the blog, not the individual posts. Hurm.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6415989949815849833-9005089071996609713?l=nedatthelibrary2.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718148867620481922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415989949815849833.post-43558682220100286732009-02-13T14:34:00.000-05:002009-02-13T14:43:43.816-05:00Here's the <a href="http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2009/01/26/alex-winners-announced/">Alex Award Winners</a> (via my sister's theater blog).<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6415989949815849833-4355868222010028673?l=nedatthelibrary2.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718148867620481922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415989949815849833.post-53857216753144339902009-01-27T15:43:00.007-05:002009-02-04T09:55:01.590-05:00Okay, Thing 1 and Thing 2 bring to mind a catchy musical (involving calculatus eliminatus), but that's not what this is about. Thing 2 in <i>this</i> context is about "Web 2.0," which doesn't involve calculatus eliminatus at all. And frankly, it includes a bunch of hype that kinda kills my interest in it. But for me the point of libraries paying attention to Web 2.0 stuff is relevance and patron expectations. My experience with online bookstores is framed by amazon.com. I imagine many (most?) library patrons are online consumers of information and products, and while it might be quaint to have the local library's website be a stripped down, no-frills experience, people's expectations are generally going to be much higher than that. They'll mostly notice what's missing, not what's going well. And if we're not aware of what's out there, we can't decide whether it's relevant to our patrons or not.<br /><br />Hurm, that sounded like a bunch of hooey, though, so I'm going to leave that alone for now, and turn to something web/library 2.0 that looks relevant and cool:<br /><br />Check out <a href="http://www.darienlibrary.org/">Darien Library's website</a>. They've built it on the open-source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system">CMS</a> <a href="http://drupal.org/">Drupal</a> and it has some pretty cool functionality (besides just having a nice clean look). I can see why you might not want to include tagging and reviews on your PAC, but it sure seems like an interesting idea.<br /><br /><a href="http://stupendousamazing.blogspot.com/2008/09/drupal-sopac-community-power-darien.html">Here's a blog post with more links related to Darien's website</a>.<br /><br />(Drupal, by the way, is coming soon to Lint)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6415989949815849833-5385721675314433990?l=nedatthelibrary2.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718148867620481922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415989949815849833.post-68663410479378923082008-12-03T21:51:00.002-05:002009-01-06T14:41:08.141-05:00Boy, am I running behind on my 23 things. I'm hoping this video will help me get up to speed on internet searching.<br /><br /><i>[update - I guess that video got removed. Bummer]</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6415989949815849833-6866341047937892308?l=nedatthelibrary2.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718148867620481922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415989949815849833.post-32709951413587581832008-10-31T15:43:00.002-04:002008-10-31T16:08:53.855-04:00Ned at the Library = Good times.<br />*<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6415989949815849833-3270995141358758183?l=nedatthelibrary2.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718148867620481922noreply@blogger.com0