MarsPhoenix on Twitter

I am a total space nerd.   So one might imagine my glee when I discovered that the Phoenix Mars Lander has it’s own Twitter page.  And that some creative type at NASA is writing the posts as if the actual lander is doing the posting.  (I picture it having a voice similar to that of [...]

Facebook censored my posted item

I’m a big fan of the “posted items” feature on Facebook. It’s an easy way of sharing “interesting” links that I find on the Internet without spamming my friends’ e-mail accounts or taking the time to write a whole big blog post about it. Yesterday, I posted a link to this Read-Write-Web [...]

Browser Plugins

You can help people at the reference desk and give bibliographic instruction sessions til the cows come home, but you can’t look over your patrons’ shoulders 24/7 when they’re doing research to make sure they’re doing it correctly…or can you?
Well, no. Not yet. But your library can provide an extra helping hand by [...]

Law Libraries and Librarians ning

From the e-mail announcement:
Announcing Law Libraries and Librarians (http://lawlibraries.ning.com): a social networking site for law librarians interested in social networking
Do you blog or podcast?  Twitter or Gtalk or AIM?  Ning or Wiki? Flickr or del.icio.us or ooVoo or Seesmic or Utterz or Ustream?  Want to find out more from other law librarians who use social [...]

Decipher that chat message

One of the challenges of chat reference, especially if you haven’t been using chat since you were 10 years old like many of our patrons have, is figuring out the acronyms that they use.  (Personally, I pride myself on never using these short hands in chat or texting, but I’m also apparently a snob.)   So [...]