Vast Active Library and Information Science blog. From a recent library science graduate in Wellington, New Zealand. A focus on reference and current awareness tools and issues, especially free, web-based resources.

 
Aaron at Walking Paper has an intriguing suggestion on using personalised home pages (like Netvibes or Google IG) in the library.

"My job would be facilitated if I could see:

• the day, week, and month’s most requested book, locally and system wide
• the meeting room schedule for the day and week
• important news from the library, community and the world
• reference queries that have come in via email"

I like this idea a lot. As Aaron points out, the lack of support for XML and RSS in our library management software is a hindrance to this sort of tool - but hopefully not for much longer.




| posted by Simon at 7:32 pm