As a fresh graduate from library school with little practical experience, I used to think that known item searches ie finding an article or book when you already knew the title etc was relatively trivial and the difficulty was with the other type of searches subject/topical searches?

It's common for libraries to have a Facebook page now and as such we are all affected by the new Facebook Timeline for pages that will be turned on March 30 2012. Articles like this and this explain some of the changes but perhaps the biggest change will be the need to add a cover photo on top of the normal profile photo.

Okay this could be one of my craziest ideas yet. Of course you would have heard of Hitler Downfall parodies  , where a classic scene from the German movie Downfall has its subtitles changed so it seems Hitler is ranting about anything from being banned in Xbox live to disappointment with the latest Apple product. In the library context, I suppose it would be trivial to create many such parodies as there is plenty to rant about.

If you spend any amount of time online, you will run into memes. Library memes exist also of course, for example I have written in the past about library memes and social media campaigns that try to save libraries (e.g #savelibraries, #buyalibrary etc). Some clever sayings or quotes have become rallying calls for librarians and libraries.

Storify is a great tool to use for curation of online material. Here's how they describe themselves "Storify lets you curate social networks to build social stories, bringing together media scattered across the Web into a coherent narrative.

I have written about QRcode uses and I am a little unsure about the future of QRcodes . Despite this, let me share with you a very interesting trick I learnt from the article "Getting the Most Out of QR Codes Using URI Schemes". Essentially, think about the mailto URL which allows the browser to open the systems' default mail client.

Wikipedia was on strike for 24 hours on 18 Jan 2012. Many libraries attempted to take advantage of this backout to turn it into a "teachable moment" . Libraries Tweeted (Topsy finds about 500 mentions of Library and wikipedia during the period), blogged, posted on Facebook, created libguides to help students survive the blackout and otherwise advertised the importance of libraries.

First a recep of the story so far. Libraries first came online with webopacs and it was good. Then came the wave of next generation library catalogues (including Encore, Aquabrowser, Primo) and they were suppose to be better. How much better? They were supposed to be more "google like" (no more field searches and boolean!), they had faceted browsing, relevancy ranking, autocorrect and "did you mean" features?

2011 has been an amazing year for me professionally, I got to attend my first overseas conference (ALA annual 2011), spoke overseas, contributed a few articles and a book chapter or two. More amazingly, I was named a LJ Mover &

Compared to a couple of years ago where most people had to manage files/information on at most two devices - Home + Work PC, today we have multiple devices.

My blog has existed for almost 3 years, and I have blogged over 130 blog posts, some of them I look back and laugh at how naive I was (subject of a future post), others I was proven completely wrong by subsequent events and yet a few that seem to have stood the test of time and makes me proud to have blogged them. These are my top 12 favorites. 1. What are mobile friendly library sites offering?