Infolink2007

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

http://www.lawlib.com

http://www.librarystuff.net

http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/Infolink2007

“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

Web Site Watcher - http://aignes.com
Watch That Page - http://www.watchthatpage.com

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

Belly Barometer (Blink!)
Only some people should publish, administrator
On your own? Be very very very very careful - http://www.librarystuff.net/about.html
Copyright and Trademark issues.
Code of Ethics - http://forrester.typepad.com/charleneli/2004/11/blogging_policy.html

RSS 101 - Let's Talk

Steven’s Personalized Page - http://reader.google.com
RSS Step-by-step from LII - http://www.lii.org/pub/htdocs/understandingrss.htm
RSS Mix - http://www.rssmix.com/news-wizard/

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