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.

One of the very first library conferences I attended, a very distinguished speaker (not a librarian), stated that he detected a sense of doom and gloom among librarians (or something to that effect, sorry it was 2 years ago).

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I was busy playing with my brand new IPhone 3GS.

This may ultimately prove to be yet another cool but useless idea (but what else is new from me?), but I've being playing with a service called ExitReality.

Crowd sourcing is defined as "for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group crowd of people or community in the form of an open call." The key here is that the work has to be done by non-employees so a group of librarians from your institution working on a subject guide wiki would not be crowd sourcing, unless you opened the wiki for your users to add resources.

Introduction In this long rambling post (too bad the name Rambling librarian is taken) , I  write about filtering RSS feeds (in particular table of contents from online journals), using 3 services , SuxOr, FeedZero and FeedScrub. I ramble on about social filtering versus Bayesian filters, Spam filtering versus filtering of RSS feeds , some very brief initial thoughts etc.

In this blog post, I describe 3 different ways to zoom in and out of presentations to increase visibility, and to create a bit of action.

It has being a crazy week, I was stressing out having to give my first ever presentation at the Libraries of the future seminar (with the new presentation tool Prezi !).

Reference desk duty is probably the most interesting part of my day, as I get to interact with users.

How do you share links, resources with your library patrons? In the past, the default option would certainly be through email. There is nothing wrong with sharing links through emails, though it seems to me a more structured and organized way would be better.

A couple of months back , I wrote a post entitled Creating custom search boxes for library use. This is one of my top 10 most popular blog posts and also one of the posts which I'm most proud of because it is one of my few posts that I feel is pretty original.