Every now and then I post something to one of the Hitchcock groups on Yahoo about an interesting anniversary or birthday (e.g. yesterday was the 25th anniversary of Ingrid Bergman's death) …basically an excuse to raise a glass of something alcoholic and/or watch a Hitchcock film I've also been trying to keep track of Hitchcock [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2007’
Libraries, teenagers and 2.0?
I'm doing a short presentation at an event in Wolverhampton in October ("Inspiring the iGeneration – Web 2.0, teenagers and libraries") and I'm on the hunt for fun examples of how libraries (especially public libraries) are using "2.0" to attract teenagers. I've got a few examples, but I'd love to hear about things you're doing [...]
Check out these trends
…sorry, but that was the best blog title I could come up with at 10pm after a long day In a previous post, I mentioned that the circulation figures were up for the year so far (when compared to 2006). That got me wondering what the long term trend was for items checked out. Unfortunately [...]
Yay!
Just catching up with some of my unread Bloglines and this post over at Shhhh!! made me snigger into my morning coffee Rock The Reference Desk
If you build it, they'll come back for more!
I'm just busy putting together slides for some of the upcoming presentations and I thought it was about time I trawled through some of the OPAC usage stats to see if our students are still using some of the OPAC tweaks we've made. The good news is that they are, and then some more! First [...]
52,000 frames of Hitchcock
Back in January, I set myself the task of reducing every one of the available major Hitchcock films down to 1000 frames of film. Today, nearly 7 months later, I've finally finished 1000 Frames of Hitchcock I'm guessing this is probably the largest online collection of images from Hitchcock's films, with a total of 52,000 [...]
Congratulations Casey!
Contrary to any speculation you might see on snopes.com, I haven't been abducted by aliens, joined a monastery, or fallen down an open manhole cover — the last couple of months have been fairly hectic and although I've kept saying to myself "I must remember to blog about XYZ", life just keeps throwing stuff in [...]