Keeping Up with Technology: Why and How Every Librarian Should Do It.
Steven M. Cohen
Senior Librarian
Law Library Management, Incorporated
Phone - 917-837-9706
“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings." - Rosabeth Moss Cantor
“Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.” - Charles Schwab
“It’s better to be ahead of the curve than to be behind it.” - Me
What is Currency and Why Should I Care?
- Knowing what is going on in your profession.
- Professional Development
- Reference Work
- Find new reference sources
- Become an advocate for your profession
- Competing with other professions
- Competing with Search Engines
- Educating our patrons
- Becoming a better reference worker
- See what other librarians are doing
- Keeps you out of trouble
Ways to Keep Up.
- Web Site Monitoring Software
- Weblogs
- RSS Feeds and News Aggregators
Web Site Monitoring Software
- Will notify you of changes to web sites
- Software or Online
- Highlight changes
- Filtering By Keywords
Tools
Blogs are good for libraries...but RSS is better
- Marketing the librarian
- Updates to new databases/changes in databases
- New books
- Internal communication for reference desk.
- Yes, this can be internal - In most cases, they are.
- All blogs come with an RSS Feed
Legal Considerations
RSS 101 - Let's Talk
If you want to keep up with Web 2.0 tools
1) Techcrunch - http://www.techcrunch.com
2) Mashable - http://www.mashable.com
3) MOMB - http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/
4) Ehub - http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/
5) We Break Stuff - http://webreakstuff.com/blog
6) Read/Write Web - http://www.readwriteweb.com/
7) Web 2.0 company blogs - http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/
8) Genbeta - http://www.genbeta.com
9) Killer Startups - http://www.killerstartups.com
Customize Customize Customize.
+ On Focus Amazon Search - http://www.onfocus.com/amafeed/
+ WishList - http://www.edazzle.net/amazon/
+ Google News Search Feeds, Yahoo News Search Feeds,Topix.net
+ http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=mcdreamy&c=
+ Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/librarian/
+ Use the advanced search features to customize! (We're librarians for goodness sake!)
+ Amazon Web Services Blog - (http://aws.typepad.com/)
+ Subscribe to the Search Engines Blogs - (http://blog.ask.com/)
+ Del.icio.us Feeds from people you trust. - http://del.icio.us/steverubel
+ Technorati Link - http://www.technorati.com/search/http://librarystuff.net
+ Google Blog Search - http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=link:librarystuff.net&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d
+ You Tube - http://www.youtube.com/rssls
+ Press Releases from Vendors - http://www.lexisnexis.com/presscenter/
Libraries are getting hip to RSS Technology
+ My Top 10...12 favorite tools
1) Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org
2) Snapper - http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2703
3) Browster - http://www.browster.com
4) BugMeNot - http://www.bugmenot.com
5) TinyURL - http://www.tinyurl.com
6) GoogleGroups - http://groups.google.com
7) CiteBite - http://www.citebite.com
8) Picnik - http://www.picnik.com
9) Missing Auctions - http://www.missing-auctions.com
10) Twitter - http://www.twitter.com
11) Meebo - http://www.meebo.com
12) PBwiki - http://www.pbwiki.com
13) Page2RSS - http://www.page2rss.com
14) KoolWire - http://www.koolwire.com
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