Archive for the ‘blogs’ Category

Share Story Snoops with your community

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Developed by four moms from the San Francisco Bay area a little over a year ago, Story Snoops is a rich and attractive resource you’ll want to share with your parents, teachers and kiddos–both the eager and the reluctant.

These moms of a cumulative total of nine, describe themselves as passionate readers who
strive to foster a

On keeping up with search

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

During my presentations I always try to provide a little update on the world of search.  And folks often ask, how did you discover that?

One of several things that separates TLs from other techie types in our buildings is our interest in things searchy.  I want to function as a scout in that arena.

In order to be a scout, I have to stretch, to read the… Read More

Salem Press 2011 Library Blog Awards

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

At a time when so many folks don’t have a clear enough picture of what libraries look like, or where libraries are going, or who librarians are, we need to point to vision.  The Salem Press 2011 Library Blog Awards literally does that kind of pointing with its nominated library bloggers.  It presents a cross-section of professionals who regularly contribute to our notion of what libraries are and what… Read More

INFOdocket and FullTextReports

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Gary Price alerts me.

I’ve been following his work as editor of ResourceShelf for more than ten years   Now, he and his scouting and writing partner Shirl Kennedy, continue to feed me tasty information leads, in two new information spaces:  INFOdocket and FullTextReports

NARA gets more social

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

I am both a primary source junkie and a social networking junkie and I’m loving the new look at NARA.

A NARA blog post from 12/13 explains:
You may have noticed that things look a little different on our website today. That’s because the National Archives just received a digital makeover, streamlining our look and feel and moving some items around on the back end too. While

Edublogs Awards 2010

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

Nominations are now open for the 7th annual 2010 Edublogs Awards.

Think of this event as an opportunity to celebrate your favorite blogs, but more importantly, as an opportunity to discover and explore outstanding blogs  and also tweeters and podcasters and wiki owners and hosts of online communities and media producers you have never heard of before… Read More

Hooray, the feed is back!

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Please excuse this very quick post tagged “shameless self promotion.”  I am happy to announce that SLJ has resolved its feed issue.  If you’d like to have this blog sent to your feed reader, the RSS feed is once again working: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch

(For other SLJ RSS feeds, check out this page.)

To those of you who continued as loyal readers since May, despite the arduous trek… Read More