Curious about in academic librarianship in Singapore as a career? Try So you want to be a academic librarian in Singapore? Okay, I foolishly agreed to do this  Library Day in the Life Project which is basically a project where librarians agree to blog or Tweet about their work for a day or a week. Why do this?

Location based apps and services are getting a lot of buzz these days. Users can create webpages for each location, and usually they can check in to indicate to friends their location,earn points to gain "Mayorship" and/or post reviews and tips. In many cases, these services provide legitimate owners of these locations to "claim" the location.

This post has being superceded by this updated list I was listening to @griffey and other top North American Librarians at the ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting, via Ustream and Jason mentioned he knew about 3 library IPhone apps and wondered if anyone knew of more. A month ago, I happened to be curious about this, so while on a long bus ride, I did a search on IPhone appstore for keywords library, libraries, university.

While doing research for another blog post, I stumbled upon this amazing Iphone application (they promise support for other mobile platform soon) called CardStar via Oak Park Library. I tweeted about it, and it seems to have gotten a bit of a reaction from the librarain community.

In one of the earliest posts of this blog I observed that libraries faced a uphill battle getting users to come to our web portals to use our databases to search. Libraries tried to work around this problem by using toolbars, opensearch plugins, bookmarklets, smart keyword searches to enable users to search immediately from their browser without the need to visit our webpages.

One of the very first library conferences I attended, a very distinguished speaker (not a librarian), stated that he detected a sense of doom and gloom among librarians (or something to that effect, sorry it was 2 years ago). Every librarian knows why, among various reasons, the internet and search engines are threatening to displace the role of libraries and librarians in the minds of the public, the rise of ebook readers threaten to cause the

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I was busy playing with my brand new IPhone 3GS. As this is my very first smartphone you can understand how excited I was with it. But of all the things you could do with a smartphone, perhaps the feature I was most interested in was in location based services and location based games.

This may ultimately prove to be yet another cool but useless idea (but what else is new from me?), but I've being playing with a service called ExitReality.

Crowd sourcing is defined as "for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group crowd of people or community in the form of an open call." The key here is that the work has to be done by non-employees so a group of librarians from your institution working on a subject guide wiki would not be crowd sourcing, unless you opened the wiki for your users to add resources.

Introduction In this long rambling post (too bad the name Rambling librarian is taken) , I  write about filtering RSS feeds (in particular table of contents from online journals), using 3 services , SuxOr, FeedZero and FeedScrub. I ramble on about social filtering versus Bayesian filters, Spam filtering versus filtering of RSS feeds , some very brief initial thoughts etc.

In this blog post, I describe 3 different ways to zoom in and out of presentations to increase visibility, and to create a bit of action. The three tools are Zoomit, Prezi and pptPlex. I describe my experiences with them in detail and their pros and cons as presentation tools.