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This listing is not rated yet.   Rate it!  |  Report it! It's All Good http://scanblog.blogspot.com/ A blog from five OCLC Online Computer Library Center staff about all things present and future that impact libraries and library users. A conversation that starts with the Environmental Scan and wanders around from there. This content is not vetted by OCL Category: Directory » Reference Blogs » Libraries Hits: 10 Date added: 2006-03-30 21:51:18 Alexa traffic rank: 744,789 Site average load time: 1.718 Second(s) Fast Faster than 49% of websites Site language: EN Site encoding: UTF-8

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It's All Good Latest Posts

Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? With George
April was a blur of speaking engagements, meetings, budget crunch time at OCLC, and a bad case of bronchitis for the long-suffering Joyce. And May is going to make me wish for the good old days of April.While it was a blur, some wonderful moments stand out from April's speaking engagements:The... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

BlueShirtNation.com
There's an excellent article in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal about how Best Buy's internal social networking application (BlueShirtNation.com) resulted in some very positive unexpected consequences for the electronics chain, including increased employee retention and participation in... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Blue Screen of Death
I had it this morning.On the new computer.Happily preparing for ALA antics. There will be a blogger salon, hands-on play with WorldCat social tools workshops, a somewhat offbeat game show (complete with prizes) and much, much more.And I just booked my flights. Oh, the anticipation of it all. Wha... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Google working on images
Today I was randomly looking for chamber of commerce signs online. You know--the decal ones that people used to put on their storefront windows. Maybe they still do. But they aren't taking photos of them...at least from my 2 minute search. But what did come up was interesting--the Google Image... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

working knowledge
I am an online community builder for librarians. In short, my job, my actual job, is to help librarians find and connect with each other online. I've said many times that I think I have the best job in library land. Sometimes, honestly, like today, it's not all that. It's not that I get... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Alarm when your library is too loud?
Boisterous talk over at the Chronicle Wired Campus this morning about the potential of an alarm/flashing lights in academic libraries when the decibel level gets too loud.To me, this seems like overkill. But then again I wouldn't want to go around shushing any more than anyone else. So maybe you... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Today's most e-mailed article from the Chronicle of Higher Education
"Snacks in the Stacks: Libraries Welcome Food Amid the Books." (It'sNo lie, that was the number one e-mailed article.I don't know whether to be happy or sad about this fact. Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

What am I doing?
As much as I enjoy the notions that OCLC is the Death Star, that we who work here dress funny, or that we're poor civilian contractors, I enjoy it ever so much more when somebody actually gets it. (Thanks to my colleagues for pointing this out on our team's delicious feed. Follow along if you'd... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Anaheim
We've just been talking about fun activities we've got up our sleeves for ALA Annual. Booth contests, the blog salon, and the 5 of us all at the LITA President's program. Very fun--I am getting excited already.I also saw that you can buy passes for Disneyland or Disney's California Adventure for... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Economic downturn could be uplifting for libraries
I have been sidetracked this morning, reading the headlines about the economy. I started the track by wondering what retail chains were going bankrupt, then mosied over to read about the "how to pay for college" crunch, and then ended up on biofuel and a global food shortage. Yikes.When I think... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Why Intellectual Freedom Still Matters
Maybe I'm the last person on earth to twig to this controversy, but this week, I had my pride in librarianship refreshed.Gloria Won, a librarian at University of California at San Francisco medical center, discovered that Popline, a federally-funded health information database housed at Johns... Read more...
Published 1 month ago

The Human Touch---in Wired?
Wired magazine features nine "Wired Business Trends 2008" in April. Number 9 is called "The Human Touch: Algorithms are terrific, but to search smarter, find a person." The article is specifically about websites such as Brijit, which publishes summaries of 125 magazine and newspaper articles and... Read more...
Published 1 month ago