Musings about librarianship (this blog!) has being nominated for the Salem Press Library Blog Award ! Though I have being suspicious, I have decided to take this in the spirit it was intended. Thank you  for nominating this blog whoever you are, it's nice to be recognized even this once.

Chrome is the fastest growing browser today, as of March 2010 Chrome has a 6.1% of the market share, which is the third most popular browser next is to Firefox 24.5% and Internet Explorer Pretty good for a new browser has it has leapfrogged over Opera, Safari etc which has being around almost forever. I'm personally quite fond of it, it's faster than Firefox (my current favourite), seems more stable.

Google calender is a top notch online calender with many powerful features (see overview). One of the most important feature is that libraries can offer library events as public google calenders, and users who add that to their google calenders can get free SMS reminders (this works worldwide!) In this post, I will review how libraries have being using Google calender.

Okay, I'm a big fan of RSS feeds, many of the posts here involve manipulating or consuming RSS feeds in some form, and social media is essentially tied to RSS. "Aggregating sources for academic research in a web 2.0 world" is probably my most popular post on how to consume RSS feeds from various sources.

Like most librarians, I give a fair number of presentations, so I did a bit of research on how to use my iPhone as a slide-changer remote. This seems to be an example of a solution looking for a problem since I could just use the slide changer available in my library, but it isn't really. I'll explain later. I'm not a mac user, so I can't use Keynote, but there are about half a dozen options for windows users, none of which are free.

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. The number one free tool used is of course Google alerts, but with the rise of real time searches and microblogging, attention has turned towards scanning for Tweets. In this post, I will share with you some of my experiences doing so called "environmental scanning"  using free tools.

QR code stands for "quick response", it's basically a 2D barcode that can be used to store urls, text etc. QRcodes can be used to quickly pull data from the physical world into  mobile phones which are equipped with free QR code readers (many free ones exist,but Beetagg supports quite a few phones) automatically. Simply scan the QRcode with your phone's camera, and the QRcode reader will pull the information into your phone.

Due to the popularity of this post, I have created a separate page , which I will keep updated with new entries. This post will remain unaltered for the record -- Aaron 20/3/2010 Got your IPhone recently and want a quick overview of what innovative librarians , library or library vendors have done with IPhone apps?

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. My main calender is Google Calender (for the sms updates) synced to Outlook Calender (because we are on Exchange server) to keep track of my appointments using Google Calender Sync . I know many librarians embed their Google Calender into webpages or even LibGuides, to show times they are not busy and available for an appointment.