I want this now! I always have so many tabs open in my browser. I keep moving them around so they’re near other related tabs – and that drives me crazy. And just having so many open at once saps my energy sometimes. It all looks so overwhelming, kind of like my desk and office!
This idea is just so functional and elegant. I’m going to download the alpha version right now!
This week is Round 5 of Bobbi Newman’s great project “Library Day in the Life” week. Or day. Whichever! Are you participating? As of today 140 library folks around the world are sharing what their library work days are like. What a great way to find out about other parts of our profession.
A Day in the Life of a Library… Whether you are a librarian or library worker of any kind, help us share and learn about the joys and challenges of working in a library. Join us by sharing details of your day for a week on your blog..Not only is this a great way for us to see what our colleagues are doing and how they spend their days but it’s a great way for students who are interested in the library profession to see what we really do.
As an independent consultant who works from home, my days are probably a bit different than most library staff. Or maybe they aren’t? You decide.
Since I know I’m not likely to blog about my days, I’m using a nifty tool called QuoteURL to capture my tweets about #libday5 and display them here.
pollyalidaRT @sphericalfruit: Non-librarian followers: what’s #libday5? It’s a web-wide initiative for librarians to report their work. Ever wonde …26 Jul 2010from web
It’s here! WordPress 3.0 arrived on Thursday. And so far it seems that upgrades have been going fairly smoothly. This site is now running 3.0 and seems to be running ok so far. Upgrading the theme I’m using overwrote my photos for the headers, but it’s time for me to find some new images anyways.
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be upgrading the WP server I use for classes and updating my class to cover the new features.
I haven’t looked at Aviary in a while. Wow, what I’ve been missing!
Aviary is a free suite of tools for creating and editing images and sound. The image editing tool includes advanced features like layers and masks. There’s a color editing tool, a vector drawing tool and more.
And they’ve just added a Music Creation (Roc) tool. Even the most unmusical among us (me!) can create some great little bits of music. Save your creations and use the Myna Audio editor to create a complete song, the track editing, mixing and special effects are amazing in Myna.
I wish I had a free week to spend playing with all these features. If you make some beautiful music, please share!
Think you don’t have time to be that person in your library or school who sees new trends and opportunities ahead? Think again! And take a few minutes to read this great strategy from Elisabeth Doucett in American Libraries: 10 Tips for Tracking Trends
Step 1: Identify potential sources of information for societal and library trend tracking.
Step 2: Develop a method for regularly reviewing those resources.
Step 3: Search social networking sites.
Step 4: Review each idea that you pulled out of your research, considering potential implications for your library.
Step 5: Leave your idea list in a file until you start the same process the next week.
Step 6: When you identify the ideas that you want to pursue for your library, get together with some of your fellow librarians to help you review the ideas and find the good and bad about them.
Jan Tunison, who is the Head of Library Services at the Scotia-Glenville (NY) High School forwarded this wonderful summer reading poster that she created with Glogster. Additionally, she’s in the process of creating ones for chapter books and nonfiction.
I’m really looking forward to seeing the finished project with all the linked posters!
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