http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan University of Western Ontario Librarian Dan Sich Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:37:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Skim our notes from Access 2009! Peruse the session details! Spy the live LEGO video stream! Twit the twitter stream! http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan/?p=78 I started playing around with the LibraryH3lp webchat client about a month ago. It's been around for a while, but with with the announcement of recent webchat client enhancements, I thought it was time to give it a shot. Pros: Similar to Meebo, the webchat client doesn't require an install, as does ... http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan/?p=72 UWO's library website moved over to Drupal in September 2008. Since then I've been working off-and-on at getting a LibraryH3lp chat box on my subject (aka Browse by Program) pages. Other librarians have expressed an interest in doing the same for their subject pages. Here in the Allyn & Betty Taylor Library ... http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan/?p=61 Yup, it's finally up. I had a lot of fun with our graphics person when it came to the posters. I think publicity (which is more than just posters, to be sure) is the make-or-break point when it comes to users adopting LibX. I wanted it to grab folks' curiosity ... http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan/?p=66 Here's my PPT show from Scholars Portal Day 2008, sans any copyright-infringing pics of Bruce Lee, etc. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch. http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan/?p=65 I'll be presenting a quick song & dance about LibX (along with Tim Knight at York U and Sally Wilson at Ryerson) in Toronto at Scholars Portal Day on Friday, December 12th. My current area of interest (an quite possibly the topic of my presentation) will be about LibX assessment, ... http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan/?p=62 FYI The University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Information & Media Studies' Master of Library and Information Science program will, this Fall, be offering an elective course on Second Life and Other Virtual Worlds: Critical Perspectives and Applications. Wondering how much of presence Second Life has gained in the SLIS world, ... http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan/?p=58 13 days after my previous post on Google's Lively, I can say that I've all but forgotten the application and am logging in exactly zero time per day. The main flaw with Lively (in my mind) is that there's no alert when someone else arrives in or chats in one's ... http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan/?p=57 Thanks to Amanda Etches-Johnson at blogwithoutalibrary.net and Meredith Farkas at Information Wants To Be Free for their posts on Wordle. Wordle is a web application that generates 'word clouds' based upon text, RSS feeds, or del.icio.us usernames. Here's what Wordle managed to create from my del.icio.us tags (click image to see ... http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan/?p=56 Lively is a browser-based, 3-D chat application from Google. There's a plugin download & install required. In Lively I can rofl while typing "rofl". This is somewhat more stimulating than what happens when I type "rofl" in Second Life (which to me feels like being trapped inside of an art ... http://www.shushers.ca/libraridan/?p=55