As you can probably tell from the blog name "Musings about librarianship", I clearly didn't give much thought to what I would be blogging about when I first started blogging in March 09 as the title is generic enough to cover almost anything about librarianship.

Early this year, I blogged about using Zbar iPhone app as a barcode reader to search your library. You scan the barcode of a book with your phone and it would extract the ISBN and search the library catalogue. You could put a setting in the iphone app and it would work for almost any library catalogue.

I know I'm a bit late to the party but recently , I came across Helene Blower's "New digital divide" via @digicmb.

I have shared in the past techniques that allow you to be aware of what users are saying about your library online.

The rise of web 2.0 sites has led to the idea that sites should be customizable and personalized.

Introduction By now Twitter accounts for libraries are old news, I  run a Twitter League of Library accounts, and it easily topped over 600 accounts  (Note the service is quite unreliable , statistics reported there often lag, so I'm not actively maintaining it, besides adding libraries that request to be added). For more libraries on Twitter lists see Twitter lists by Lindyb for Academic libraries &

In an earlier post , I talked about using Twitter, Google and other tools to scan for mentions by users of libraries online.

Everyone knows mobile is hot now, and many libraries are scrambling to add mobile friendly pages.

Musings about librarianship (this blog!) has being nominated for the Salem Press Library Blog Award !

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

Google calender is a top notch online calender with many powerful features (see overview).