Second Life Sarah

Just so that this blog doesn’t get overtaken with the kudzu of Second Life posts, I’ll be keeping track of my progress with the Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds seminar on the blog “Second Life Sarah.” I’ll also be posting stuff to the class wiki, but I’m having trouble getting Wetpaint to do what [...]

Second Life tour

As part of the Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds workshop I’m participating in, I took a tour of some sights around Second Life. Here’s an album. ETA: LINK FIXED.
That album in a Power Point presentation converted to the web by Calameo. It’s a nice alternative to Slide Share. I can’t seem [...]

Mapping Anthropology

I really dig maps. No, I REALLY dig maps. One of these days I will figure out an idea for a Google Maps Mashup that my library can use. Until then, I will admire UC Berkeley Anthropology Library’s mashup of their collection of Anthropology dissertations completed at Berkeley 1901-2002. [...]

Gabbly

Discovered a new chat service thanks, once again, to my Twitter list.   It’s called Gabbly and it works by putting a chat frame around any webpage.  There’s no embedding, you just put your website URL after Gabbly’s.  So, if for some reason I wanted to host a chat with readers of my blog, I would [...]

Google SketchUp

It’s funny the ways one learns about new things….
I was perusing my twitter friends list while waiting for inspiration to strike on a travel grant essay I’ve been trying to write all week.  (It’s amazing how my opinion of twitter has changed so dramatically in the past two weeks.)  One of my contacts linked to [...]

Sprout

As I say repeatedly, to anyone who will listen, I am not a techie.  (Nor a trekkie, but that’s another story.)  Don’t ask me to fix your computer because all I will do is unplug it and walk away.
So, this is why I love Web 2.0 (and will probably also like Web 3.0) .  It [...]

Second Life Question

When does the novelty of taking pictures of yourself in Second Life wear off?

Here I am visiting the Alliance Library.

Web 2.0 – not just for public services

Some graduates of Blue 2.0 spoke at this morning’s UK Libraries Faculty meeting.  All of the presenters were great, but I was especially interested in what UK’s systems librarian had to say.   She talked about her personal experience, but also showed some examples of how other library systems are utilizing Web 2.0 [...]

back in the saddle

-After a week of easing back into work post-vacation (read: chatting with co-workers, catching up on correspondence/reading and watching out for rats…um, without going into too much detail about that last one, let me just say this: THERE IS A REASON WE WANT YOU TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT FOOD IN THE LIBRARY, KIDS!!!), I am [...]

Get Ready for National Library Week

AL Focus, the video component of American Libraries magazine, has created a whole set of videos for libraries to use as promotions during National Library Week.  You can access them at AL Focus’ channels on either Blip.tv or YouTube.
Here’s a fun example:

My librarian friends think that because I work in an [...]