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Searching the ALA Web Site

http://discuss.ala.org/marginalia/2008/10/31/why-did-they-search-that-i-wonder/ Karen writes: When the ALA website went live last month, it did so with an added feature: the custom Search Engine Results Page. There are three parts to this, “key matches,” the usual kind of search resul...

Evaluating the Library’s Weblog

From an LIS768 Class Discussion: About a year back, my library department (youth services) decided to maintain a weblog – mainly with the purpose of highlighting the collection, programs, and services, and displaying photos of kids using the library.  We promote the blog by word o...

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Dominican Journalism Students BloggingOurdeanoftheCollegeofArtsandSciencesjustsharedthis:

The Dean of Rosary College of Arts & Sciences just shared this journalism project with me: http://domininet.blogspot.com/ Nice! I discovered programs, insights and more that I didn’t even know about. Glad to see some more Dominican blogging going on! ...

SURVEY: Participant satisfaction with free/open source software

My colleague Brenda Chawner is working on her PhD. Please take her survey if you’ve worked with OSS: If you use free/open library or information management software, then please consider  completing this survey if you haven’t already done so. It is anonymous,  and may take u...

What a List of Rules!

This is from Hall County Public Library in their November eNewsLetter. I believe in having a code of conduct, but some of these are so over the top I thought it was a joke at first. I’ll be using this in class next semester. I’ve bolded the ones that really made my brain ooze out my e...