There is this table that has recently fascinated me. It is Microsoft Surface table. With both the commercial and the development version, this table looks absolutely fabulous to my librarian eyes. What is Microsoft Surface table? Imagine a coffee table whose surface works like an iPhone responsive to touch with its full computing power. I [...]
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Does Your Library Have a Vision on e-Books?
I have to say I have a love-hate relationship with e-books. I love the idea of e-books. No matter where I am, I can instantly access it and start reading it on an electronic device. That’s great. As an expatriate, I dream about the day in which all the books I want to read written [...]
How Personal Should a Library Be in Social Media?
How many social media accounts does your library maintain? How do you keep them lively and up-to-date? OK, keeping up-to-date part is relatively easy. You just need to post updates on your library’s Facebook page, to add new posts to your library’s blog, and to keep twittering in your library’s Twitter. However, keeping it lively [...]
Academics and Web 2.0
I was reading an interesting article from Research Information the other day, “Web 2.0 fails to excite today’s researchers” by David Stuart. My job as a librarian is to help researchers at my institution do their research more efficiently and productively, and technology plays a big role in that. There is a number of useful [...]
Magic is more in your staff than in technologies
Roy Tennant recently posted “The Top Ten Things Library Administrators Should Know About Technology” in TechEssence blog. Among the ten things, what I like most is No. 4: “Maximize the effectiveness of your most costly technology investment — your people.” In the other post, “Your ideas for “Top Ten Things“” a similar suggestion appears: “Allow [...]
Tips and Methods for Effective Screencasting
I have spent last week making a four-minute video tutorial on how to use a medical database called AccessMedicine. It has been a while since I have worked on screencasting. And of course, I lost all my documentation I have created in my previous workplace. So, it took a while for me to remember how [...]