Webcasts: Building Academic Library 2.0: Presentations by Meredith Farkas and James Neal
Presentations from the recent Building Academic Library 2.0 event (November 2, 2007) at the UC Berkeley are now available as three webcasts/podcasts (audio and video are available).
See Also: An Open Letter to the World, From Your Local Librarian
A couple of notes from RS.
+ All of what Jeanne has to say is true. Of course, Worldcat has been available for decades to librarians. Now, it's available to the general public. Question is, how many people know about it and/or use it?
++ The rest of Jeanne's comments, especially how she ends the article, are quite interesting and important to read. RSS? Text Messaging? Perhaps she is correct. However, the info pro needs to know about these services and should also brainstorming about other ways to use them. We would also argue that in this "info age" info pros can bring massive amounts of extra value to their organizations by having knowledge of a wide variety of info tools, even some that might not be used daily. Example? Zoho's Suite of tools.
1) Note from Gary, Ask Maps and AskCity offer useful mapping features unavailable elsewhere.
Our point here is to know about and use more than one resource when necessary and it doesn't have to be Ask.
For example:
+ Ask Maps offers both driving AND walking directions and dynamic recalculation
+ AskCity allows you to mark an area and search "inside" it.
+ Ask images works well offering both the ability to narrow/focus and in some cases find image results directly from a web search results page (where most people only look). Here are two examples:
A) Watercolors of flowers
B) Van Gogh Paintings
*Gary is Director of Online Info Resources at Ask.com
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