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WordPress Blog Helps and Tips

Rachel Wadham — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:55:40 +0000

This is a fairly comprehensive list of the best WordPress tutorials, hacks, help files, and cheat sheets. They are written to make life easier, to help us expand WordPress functionality, and to give us a better understanding of WordPress and how powerful a blogging tool it is…
Speckyboy, Mar. 8

Word Press Hacks and Helps

LibGuides

Rachel Wadham — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:29:38 +0000

Something new on the horizon that has lots of potential, LibGuides:

“LibGuides is a library 2.0 online publishing system. It combines the best features of social networks, wikis, bookmarks and blogs, to help librarians share information and promote library resources to the community. LibGuides is fully integrated with Facebook, and LibGuides widgets enable the distribution of library content on social networks, blogs, and courseware systems. Patrons can also subscribe to the email updates of their favorite LibGuides content. Simply put, LibGuides connects you with patrons, wherever they are.”

Check it out at http://www.springshare.com/libguides/

Also this blog http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/ has a couple of recent posts about how Boston College and Dalhousie University are using LibGuides.

This is a possible topic for an upcoming meeting so check it out.

September Meeting Minutes

Rachel Wadham — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:36:19 +0000

This month we discussed instant messaging. Peter Zuber discussed how they use IM in science. You can check out their client through any science subject page. Science uses PLUGOO as an interface. You can find more about it a www.plugoo.com. Peter said that they have had moderate success with this showing sometimes several questions a day. Andy Spackman discussed how MEGI uses MEBO on their business page. Check it out at http://www.lib.byu.edu/business/. MEBO can be found at www.meebo.com, look for the Meebo Me Widget. Andy indicated that while traffic was slow over the summer it is really picking up now and they see a noticeable difference in the number of transactions. We ended with a discussion the pros and cons of this form of communication especially as it relates to reference services. There was discussion of how this is different from the Chat Ref that we tried and abandoned. There was also discussion of how the students use this for communication and how it really fits their needs when they are on subject pages and need an answer. The group was asked if this should go library wide or not, and it was decided that there were pros and cons to this. It was also asked if support could be put forward for programming or if contacting the developers of the programs we saw today could help us to develop features we may want. We will certainly revisit this topic as more people implement IM reference to see how implementations are working.

Text a Librarian

Rachel Wadham — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:19:01 +0000

Here is a very interesting blog post from the ALA TechSource about texting reference questions. The example is for a service from Australia and it’s very interesting. Is their anyway we could use this in our library? Take a look and post any comments or ideas you may have.

Can U TXT the LBRY?

http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/06/can-u-txt-the-lbry.html