The Shifted Librarian

WoW Your Librarian Friends

Until a few years ago, the last time I had really played videogames was in college, where I lost a couple of months of my life (in a row) to SimCity on the Super Nintendo system. I learned my lesson from that and since then, I’ve stayed away from games that I know will suck [...]

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24.07.2008 16:13:57 - The Shifted Librarian

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Bibliocommons Goes Live!

I blogged about Beth Jefferson’s Bibliocommons project last year, impressed with her goal of creating a library catalog interface from scratch that is focused on users and integrates community and social pieces around the content, rather than tacking them on here and there. I also showed some screenshots of the beta version in a presentation [...]

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23.07.2008 15:56:37 - The Shifted Librarian

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The Dead Ends Don’t Justify the Means

Last year, I noted how the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library and others analyzed the user experience in the catalog and began using MeeboMe as a way to provide a path out of the “no results” dead end. Now we have another great example from the Allen County Public Library of re-examining dead ends [...]

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23.07.2008 05:53:31 - The Shifted Librarian

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A Report from the Field from Rick Glady

“We recently completed a 6-month trial of Family Gaming at the Civic Center Library, City of Scottsdale, Arizona. It began as an Adult Gaming program, but we didn’t seem to be able to draw in enough adults to make it worthwhile to be strictly an adult program. We did find out, however, from the [...]

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18.07.2008 15:30:23 - The Shifted Librarian

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Corrupting Young Minds (with Books) in the Library

So it turns out there are a couple of potentially controversial things about the current issue of The New Yorker, one of them being an article called “The Lion and the Mouse” by Jill Lepore. I’ve always agreed with the ethic and attitude of “Library 2.0,” even though I didn’t like the implication that libraries [...]

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17.07.2008 13:45:31 - The Shifted Librarian

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5 Tips for iPhone App Users

As a long-time Palm OS Treo user now on a Centro, I’ve been able to add any third-party application to my cell phone for years. In fact, before my Centro, one of my biggest problems was fitting all of the apps I’d downloaded on the phone and SD card. So it’s with a high level [...]

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16.07.2008 13:47:49 - The Shifted Librarian

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Digital Youth Wired for Action Conference

If you’re anywhere around North Carolina on August 14, check out this one-day conference brought to you by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. I met Anastasia Goodstein last year, although I didn’t get to hear her speak. If I was going to be in the area, I’d definitely want to hear what [...]

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15.07.2008 04:23:05 - The Shifted Librarian

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Announcing the 2007 Gaming Census!

This is an annual survey done by Dr. Scott Nicholson, associate professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and is designed to collect information about gaming programs run in libraries in 2007. This can be any type of game (board, card, video, chess, puzzle) at any type of library (public, school, academic, or [...]

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14.07.2008 13:40:56 - The Shifted Librarian

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Stating the State of the Web

While I continue recovering from the mad fun that was Annual 2008, here’s another distracting link - The State of the Web - Summer 2008. For non-hipsters like me, here are some links to help explain the graphics: Fail Whale Firefox Download Day Why I’m Not Purchasing an iPhone 3G and Why Apple is a Brilliant [...]

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09.07.2008 16:11:24 - The Shifted Librarian

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Dancing Across the Web

From today’s New York Times, this made me smile today. I

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09.07.2008 04:41:44 - The Shifted Librarian

The Shifted Librarian

WoW Your Librarian Friends

Bibliocommons Goes Live!

The Dead Ends Don’t Justify the Means

A Report from the Field from Rick Glady

Corrupting Young Minds (with Books) in the Library

5 Tips for iPhone App Users

Digital Youth Wired for Action Conference

Announcing the 2007 Gaming Census!

Stating the State of the Web

Dancing Across the Web

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