Here's a slightly delayed write up for the 2 day Executive Roadshow event at the Crowne Palza, Birmingham. Normally I'd try and blog live but sadly the Crowne Plaza regarded internet access in the hotel rooms (which I'd already paid for) as being something entirely different to wireless access in the rest of the hotel [...]
Posts Tagged ‘library2.0’
Library 2.0, Schmibrary 2.0
The level of noise about "that label" seems to be getting louder of late, so I propose we simply change the name to… …which of course means we'll get a cool new name for it all next year! (The above is roughly 85.3% tongue-in-cheek, but if the new name takes off then bagsie I get [...]
Extended info from "pewbot"
LibraryThing's Tim Spalding has been in touch with me and he made some suggestions that I've now added into pewbot. If you pop /extended onto the end of a request, then pewbot will return a richer set of information – e.g.: http://webcat.hud.ac.uk:4128/pewbot/0750603054/extended/ The attributes returned for each ISBN are: countthe number of borrowers who borrowed [...]
A Perfect Library 2.0 Day
Just relaxing with a glass of wine after a very very Library 2.0 day With a lot of help from Iman Moradi (blog/flickr), we ran an introduction to Library 2.0 for members of our Subject Teams and Tech Services this afternoon. Then, after a coffee break, we watched the SirsiDynix Institute Weblogs & Libraries: Communication, [...]
Folksonomies
I've just stumbled across an excellent article by Ellyssa Kroski about folksonomies (user, rather than expert, created taxonomies): The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging Now that Amazon is letting its users tag items, how long before we see this functionality in the OPAC? I'm getting very tempted to add a tagging facility to our [...]