Archive for April, 2005

Do you podcast?

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Eliot Van Buskirk provides a good overview of what this technology is about and the tools that you can use to create your own podcast. If podcast is new to you, a good place for sampling the existing shows is Podscope: the first search engine built specifically for podcasts.

BBC School Resources

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

BBC has a new school resources page. It is arranged by age group and topic. It also includes resources for parents and teachers and a searchable collection of games.

Shorten URLs

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

Tired of posting URLs in emails that break and force the recipient to cut and paste it back together? TinyURL.com solves this problem. Other URL shortening services are listed on the Weblogs Compendium Shorter URL section.

blogwithoutalibrary.net

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

Find out what libaries are doing with blogs and rss at blogwithoutalibrary.net.

Program on new web tools

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

On May 3 the New England chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NEASIST) presents Syndicate, Aggregate, Communicate: New Web Tools in Real Applications for Libraries, Companies and Regular Folk. This full day events features Megan Fox (Web & Electronic Resources Librarian, Simmons College), Jenny Levine (The Shifted Librarian), and Michael […]

Blogging new materials

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

Library Stuff notes that the Carter Memorial Library in Wisconsin is blogging a list of new materials, with links directly to the catalog. Can we do this with Dynix?

PBS NOVA program seeks outreach sites

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

2005 marks the centennial of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2. In celebration, WGBH (Boston’s public television station) and the ALA invite public libraries to submit an application to become one of 20 outreach sites for a new NOVA program airing this fall on PBS. Selected libraries will receive a $2500 stipend and a Library Kit with […]