Search Engine Watch has posted a brief but interesting article on marketing with Facebook. While aimed primarily at businesses, there are great tips for anyone using Facebook fan pages as a means of engaging users and promoting services.
OLIS is interested in hearing about libraries using Facebook and Twitter to connect with users. Please add your […]
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just issued a new report on Social Isolation and New Technology. While a 2006 study argued that since 1985 Americans have become more socially isolated and that the size and diversity of their discussion networks has declined, this study finds that those using digital technologies are actually […]
Books
Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lending
By MOTOKO RICH
Published: October 15, 2009
Electronic book borrowing is a convenient way for libraries to remain relevant, but publishers are worried.
Read the full NYT article
A free webinar from Polaris Library Systems and Library Journal on October 20 will present technology-based customer service your library can offer to patrons and to the library itself. The presenters include a group of training experts who will discuss how ‘training up’ library staff can help stretch and boost your library’s level of customer […]
Amy Sedaris, author, actor and comedian encourages borrowing ebooks from public libraries. To watch the video in which Amy promotes Sony’s Reader Touch and Reader Pocket Editions and public libraries, visit the Sony site about Reader Digital Books. Amy’s question is How many ebooks can I read?
OCEAN STATE LIBRARIES TO HOST DIGITAL BOOKMOBILE NATIONAL TOUR EVENT
Download experience promotes free audiobook, eBook, music & video download service
(Cranston, RI) Ocean State Libraries will host the Digital Bookmobile National Tour, an immersive download experience inside a 74-foot, high-tech tractor-trailer, on Monday, September 21st from 10am-4pm at Cranston Public Library. Readers of all ages are […]
Open Library Environment (OLE) Project is a multi-national library group formed to study business process in libraries and to define a next generation library technology platform. The overall goal of the project is to develop an open source library system that will
place a research library into the core business process […]
Duke University has launched DukeMobile 1.1 to access the most comprehensive university digital image collection specifically formatted for an iPhone or iPod Touch. As written up on the blog Mobile Libraries, the collection includes thousands of photos and other artifacts that range from 19th century American sheet music to materials on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury scene […]
On April 23, 2009, OCLC announced ‘Quick Start’, the first web-scale cooperative library management service. This is a new version of WorldCat Local that will include functions typically performed by a locally installed integrated library system.
The development of the Quick Start project is led by OCLC Executive Director for Networked Library Services Andrew […]
Tagging has grown to be a norm for most emerging web 2.0 sites. Not to be outdone, Twitter smartly incorporates hashtags to its short blog-message format in spite its limit of 140 characters per entry. It takes the format of a pound sign followed by a descriptor or acronym. It provides a way […]
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