| FEATURES |
Transformative Sharing with Instant Messaging, Wikis, Interactive Maps, and Flickr
This
author explains how sharing and love can overcome staff FUD (fear,
uncertainly, and doubt). He got his colleagues to use social sharing
tools, including instant messaging, wikis, maps, and Flickr, to
transform the Web-based “face” of his library into a happy place of
high-tech sharing.
By Darren Chase |
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Get a (Second) Life! Prospecting for Gold in a 3-D World
Second
Life is a virtual world where participants can do just about anything
they can in real life. That includes reading and research! So some
forward-thinking techies have opened a library “in-world” to fill
residents’ needs.
By Lori Bell, Tom Peters, and Kitty Pope |
Page 10 |
Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0
Here’s a great explanation of what Web 2.0 actually is and how you can
implement it in your library. This author identifies six pillars that
she used as the foundation for rebuilding her library’s Web site so it
would be “more 2.0.”
By Karen A. Coombs |
Page 16 |
Mission IM-possible: Starting an Instant Message Reference Service Using Trillian
Librarians at a small liberal arts college thought it might be
“IM-possible” for them to “IM-plement” a chat reference service. But
they found that using instant messaging (IM) instead allowed them to
accomplish their mission successfully.
By Ronalee Ciocco and Alice Huff |
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| COLUMNS |
The Systems Librarian
Spam Wars: The Battle of the Formbots
By Marshall Breeding |
Page 32 |
Building Digital Libraries
Surfing the Library 2.0 Wave
By Terence K. Huwe |
Page 36 |
Online Treasures
eLearning About Library 2.0
By Janet L. Balas |
Page 39 |
Libraries in Computers
Introducing Libraries in Computers
By Daniel Chudnov |
Page 43 |
| DEPARTMENTS |
Editor’s Notes
Out with the Old, In with the New
By Kathy Dempsey |
Page 4 |
| Books to Check Out |
Page 47 |
Tech Tips for Every Librarian
Get Online, Get Found, Get in the Know!
By Rachel Singer Gordon and Michael Stephens |
Page 48 |
| Noted & Quoted |
Page 50 |
| SPECIAL SECTIONS |
| How to Write for CIL |
Page 9 |
| Computers in Libraries 2007 Conference Preview |
Page 21 |
| ADVERTISING |
| Library Tech Connection |
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| Index to Advertisers |
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