Recently some of my coworkers have started to purchase Iphones and Itouches, and have asked me for help on how to setup their devices.

By now many corporations including libraries routinely scan for mentions of themselves on the internet.

QR code stands for "quick response", it's basically a 2D barcode that can be used to store urls, text etc.

Due to the popularity of this post, I have created a separate page , which I will keep updated with new entries.

Introduction There are two "movements" in librarianship that I'm quite interested in, one is of course "library 2.0" , the other which doesn't show as much because it's hard to blog about is "evidence based librarianship". I always liked figures and statistics (I enjoyed analyzing the heck out of LibQual+ data last year) and being able to "prove" that some initiative is worthwhile always makes me happy.

I'm pretty bad with dates and appointments, so I rely heavily on my online Calender to keep track of my meetings.

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Location based apps and services are getting a lot of buzz these days.

This post has being superceded by this updated list I was listening to @griffey and other top North American Librarians at the ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting, via Ustream and Jason mentioned he knew about 3 library IPhone apps and wondered if anyone knew of more. A month ago, I happened to be curious about this, so while on a long bus ride, I did a search on IPhone appstore for keywords library, libraries, university.

While doing research for another blog post, I stumbled upon this amazing Iphone application (they promise support for other mobile platform soon) called CardStar via Oak Park Library.

In one of the earliest posts of this blog I observed that libraries faced a uphill battle getting users to come to our web portals to use our databases to search.