On his NPR show Open Source, Christopher Lydon had guests suggest a new reading list for the Democrats, ala the list that Newt Gingerich suggest for the newly Republican Congress 12 years ago. There’s some pretty good stuff there. Though, it’s dissapointing to see so little fiction represented. You don’t learn empathy from reading Milton Friedman.
This week we are launching IM reference at our library. We decided to go with GAIM, originally because UNC has some great documentation for configuring it for centralized logging. But, we couldn’t get that to work, and now we’re not sure if we are going to keep transcripts at all. I came up with a list of default settings that work for us, and that documentation is in a word file here. Once we’ve done an initial assessment in a couple of weeks, I’ll write up a summary.
From a posting on LIBREF, this page outlining evaluation criteria for web pages. Could be a useful tool for students.
Through Michael Stephens’ post on ALA Techsource, I learned about PLCMC’s Learning 2.0 initiative. Looks like a great way to encourage staff to learn new technologies. Never underestimate the power of bribery!
