Here’s a video of a monkey reading the abstract of the paper I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Library Assessment conference. The title of the paper is “Cycling Through: Paths Libraries Take to Marketing Electronic Resources.”
direct link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA_ZD9phNZ0
how does a company use social networking tools to its advantage, to let customers know their concerns have been heard? like this:
My tweet about our ASP resources suddenly working via the proxy server
ASP tweets a response
Lyn Robinson, Mike McGuire, “The rhizome and the tree: changing metaphors for information organisation”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 66 Iss: 4, pp.604 – 613
DOI: 10.1108/00220411011052975
we’re in the process of filling out resource records for our electronic resources in our NEW e-resource management system, innovative’s erm. we discovered a neat thing yesterday: html code can be entered into the back end and it displays properly in the opac. it’s a small thing really, but we’re so pleased. </geek>
here’s a screen shot of the back end of the database, where we enter the data (and now, html code!):
and a screen shot of how it appears in our public catalog (note the live links are underlined):
it’s summer and the six flags commercials are in full force. a couple summers ago my dad called me from texas and said, “i think i just saw your house in a six flags commercial.” he was right! check it out!
