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 [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
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 [...]