Recently at Libraries Interact we asked what people would like to see on the blog. How-to guides were popular, so I’ve been putting together a few posts on different topics. The first two are up now -
How to: Put your feeds on a diet
Organising and prioritising your feeds and email.
How-to: Change library sectors
Some practical tips […]
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Meanwhile, over at LibrariesInteract…
Published by October 22nd, 2007 in Research/Writing and blogs. 0 CommentsCW asks, what are your goals?
For some time now, but more acutely since Aurora, my goal has been to improve my communication skills. I am good at talking to most people, and giving presentations, but I struggle a little when talking to Directors and Bigwigs, if I don’t have anything in particular I want to ask […]
More on content analysis and libraries
Published by January 19th, 2007 in Research/Writing and Australia. 0 CommentsI came across another article today that covers some similar ground and scope to my unfinished librarians in the media content analysis:
Robinson, L T K, (2006) “Curmudgeons and Dragons? A Content Analysis of the Australian Print Media’s Portrayal of the Information Profession 2000 to 2004“, LIBRES, Vol 16, No. 2 (PDF)
Sensibly, Robinson has a much, […]
New journal: Open Access Research
Published by January 9th, 2007 in General and Research/Writing. 2 CommentsVia the ACRL Scholarly Communication list and Dorothea’s blog: Call for papers for the new journal Open Access Research.
Dorothea has the full call and contact details, and she’s also a member of the editorial board. This will definitely be a journal to watch.
Just one question: is the RSS module installed? OJS is great as it […]
Something I’ve been working on for some time is how authors develop communities using social software. That one is an article I intend to finish! As part of that article, about a year ago I started looking at the uses made of blogs in librarianship and other profession and came up with this list:
As a […]
As I am developing a couple of articles now that NLS2006 is over, I found a post from The Economist’s Free Exchange blog, Doing the Books rather timely:
“In the case of authors, particularly journalists, they generally expend a great deal of time, effort, and emotional frisson in writing a good-sized article. At the end of […]
How many reference managers are there?
Published by November 8th, 2006 in Library technology and Research/Writing. 1 CommentThere’s a whole world beyond RefWorks and Endnote. This Lifehacker post provides suggestions for well over a dozen different reference managers.
As a BibDesk user myself, I often wonder whether we as librarians should be doing more to support reference managers, especially Zotero and some of the other free options out there that would be beneficial to those who […]
ALA wrapup in inCite
Published by November 1st, 2006 in Conferences, Research/Writing and Australia. 2 CommentsA little wrap-up thing of my time at ALA is in this month’s inCite, focusing on the benefits of new grads attending Annual.
Two pages after that is an interview with Jessamyn. Good news, fellow sandgropers: She’ll be here real soon.
NLS2006 - just over a month to go
Published by October 30th, 2006 in General, Conferences and Research/Writing. 0 CommentsAs mentioned, NLS2006 is just over a month away now. The finish line, in more ways than one, is drawing ever closer and I’m definitely in the stage of checking things off, completing lots of small administrative tasks, and starting to pull files together to write my final programme report.
At this stage, conferences really should […]
