Introduction In this rather long post, I will talk about the different sources one could add to stay on top of one's research area. These include RSS feeds from traditional databases (citation alerts, table of contents of favourite journals), library opac feeds of searches and new additions, book vendor sites (e.g Amazon) book sharing sites (e.g LibraryThing), social bookmarking sites both generic (e.g.

Libraries that are big on Library 2.0 tend to offer a bunch of browser plugins/addons in the effort to reach out to the users who don't feel the need to visit the Library Portal. They offer custom toolbars, some prefer Libx, others are big on Conduit toolbars. Many progressive libraries are big fans of the firefox addon Zotero for citation management, many more offer opensearch plugins. All of these are available as Firefox add-ons of course.

Okay, I know a large number of readers of this blog are international visitors but I just had to post this local piece of news.

First, a look at the final product. Recently, I have being thinking about how information flows in a large organization, including libraries.

Librarians are often overwhelmed by the mass of fast moving information they need to keep track of. Particularly in large libraries for librarians manning information desks, keeping up to date with the latest changes in policy and instructions is often a challenge.

I've being a librarian for 2 years now, and it seems a good point as ever to look back at my career so far. Looking back, what surprised me the most was how I suddenly got interested (maybe even obsessed) with Library2.0 when before I showed little interest in it at all. The story of how it happened is somewhat interesting but I won't relate it here.

I've being thinking about how libraries can mashup their Twitter, Flickr, Youtube and other web 2.0 accounts and display them using cool visualizations. Visualization on screensavers Initially I toyed with the idea of displaying rss feeds using screensavers. Software such as Nuparadigm's RSS screensaver, RSSmore , , RSSsaver and more do this.

After posting about what Library Twitter accounts are doing here and here, I stumbled upon a more efficient way of getting the statistics and this resulted in the following batch of statistics (Number of followers, Number of following, Followers/following ratio, Age of account (based on first tweet) and total updates for all 456 accounts on the Library Twitter League.

I used to own a web domain a few year ago, and every month I would dutifully download and analyse my server logs using Analog. Recently, I started blogging again and I began using Google analytics.

There is considerable literature by now on handling reference and/or communicating with patrons via phone, email and Instant Messaging , but would the same considerations apply for Twitter? Still certain issues/questions (if not answers) would be similar for all types of channels. First off, I must confess, I have not set up a Twitter account for a Library, so this post will have more questions

In my recent posts comparing Twitter accounts of libraries, I found that when listing by follower counts, only 4 out of the top 20 accounts belonged to Academic libraries. In fact, when I looked at the top 50 accounts the situation looks even worse. I found that only 7 accounts belonged to the Academic libraries.