Steve Jobs first pitched for the iPhone at MacWorld 9 Jan 2007. Here is the original transcript and below is the video of the master at work.
Steve Jobs first pitched for the iPhone at MacWorld 9 Jan 2007. Here is the original transcript and below is the video of the master at work.
We live in a world where it seems we have countless ways to communicate with our users.
I have written plenty of posts on why you want to proactively scan Twitter & other online spaces for mentions of your library so you know what people are saying about your library and help if needed.
I don't have much artistic or design skills so I like playing with tools that help mask this lack of skill.
Warning : Self indulgent personal post follows So I celebrated 4 years in librarianship on Aug 27 2011, big whoop right? Typically such posts would wax lyrical about how with 4 years under my belt, I am too experienced to call myself a newbie but not too experienced to become a veteran (most associations use 5 years as a cut-off to determine whether one is a "new professional"). I will then go on to muse about how
Just as mobile friendly library sites (including library catalogues) are becoming common (see my survey on library mobile sites and survey on library native apps), library vendors providing databases are keep pacing with mobile friendly databases either as a native app or more commonly as a mobile web version.
I wrote about Helene Blower's new digital divide here It's one of those slides where you look at it, and you are instantly struck by the brilliance of it. One criticism I've read about this idea is that it's not nuanced enough, and too simplistic. I think It's not quite fair a criticism since the word "divide" , implies only two possible sides?
I had the opportunity recently to populate the "Contact us" option in our new library page which led me to realize how diverse library communication channels are.
In 2009, I wrote Aggregating sources for academic research in a web 2.0 world .
I have written a couple of times on Web Scale Discovery tools like Summon, Ebsco Discovery Service, Worldcat local and Primo Central.
I am writing this in Singapore 24 hours after visiting the lovely city of New Orleans for ALA Annual 2011 .