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Comment on Thinkering Spaces in Libraries by Portable, collaborative spaces in libraries — "thinkering spaces" « UST Libraries Blog

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:36:18 +0000

[...] back onto the people.” If you wish to read more, please see Thinkering Spaces in Libraries, part one and part [...]

Comment on Libraries and Innovation Journalists by Blog.com’s Top 10 Library Blog list « Entry-level Librarian

Blog.com’s Top 10 Library Blog list « Entry-level Librarian — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:15:22 +0000

[...] Shifted Librarian tends toward longer posts, but they are still good! She has a good post on Libraries and Innovation Specialists and how each can help the [...]

Comment on Social Media Policies by pollyalida

pollyalida — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:40:31 +0000

Thank you! I can use these resources tomorrow! Great stuff.

Comment on Bibliocommons Goes Live! by peter schoenberg

peter schoenberg — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:43:32 +0000

Pleased to say that Edmonton Public Library is live on Bibliocommons. We serve 800,000 citizens, 1.8 million items, 500,000 titles, 10 million+ annual circulation. We are the first Sirsi Symphony library on Bibliocommons and we and most of our customers are loving it!

Spelling assistance is certainly part of the current Bibliocommons, e.g.

Keyword search results for…
Harry Otter
Did you mean harry potter (189 results)?

Keyword search results for…
Harry poter
Did you mean harry potter (189 results)?

Keyword search results for…
margret attwood
Did you mean margaret atwood (151 results)?

Peter

Comment on Become a Ninja Phone Warrior with the Pre by jenny

jenny — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:27:22 +0000

Hi, Erwin (?) –

First of all, thanks for developing P2Snippets – it’s already been a great program in the homebrew catalog, and I’m thrilled to see it’s passed QA for the official app one.

On my Treo 650, I had a program like P2Snippets where I could store a chunk of text, but I could also associate a made-up word with it. Something like esig or tslurl, and every time I entered in a program (memo, email, text), it would expand to insert the stored text. I’m not sure how much you can integrate with WebOS yet, but that would be my ideal.

Keep up the great work!

Comment on How Librarians Helped Get Out the Vote… in 1952 by jenny

jenny — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:09:53 +0000

Keep us posted on your progress, Rebecca!

Comment on How Librarians Helped Get Out the Vote… in 1952 by Rebecca Blakeley

Rebecca Blakeley — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:15:38 +0000

What a great find, Jenny! I’m going to share this with my colleagues and post this on Twitter. I’ve been brainstorming lately about how to get my patrons and colleagues involved with civic engagement activities at our library. For starters, I’m going to do a workshop with the Reference Dept. on basic civic reference skills (finding basic info using certain local/state/federal government sources) and want to bring the workshop to the public library in town too! I’ll keep you posted. I’ll ask the public librarians what they are doing with gaming too and refer them to your Library Technology Report on Gaming and Civic Engagement!