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 .

Recently, I pulled everything I have read on the topic on Web Scale Discovery tools (e.g Summon, Ebsco Discovery Service or EDS, Worldcat local and Primo Central) together into a bibliography and posted it on the following Google Site on the topic started by Andy Ekins (Christ Church University, UK) and Lukas Koster (Library of the University of Amsterdam, NL).

I'll being attending ALA Annual 2011 at New Orleans in June thanks to support from my employers.