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.

Recently, I was pondering about the need to set targets or KPI (key performance indicators) for Libraries carrying out Social media activities. Take Libraries with Twitter accounts for example, what would be a suitable target? The first thing that comes to mind is number of followers, which would be a measure of how many people you are reaching, but what would be a creditable target?

Introduction In this post, I will talk about a little known service called Google Profiles, why it is becoming important, and I will describe how libraries have being using it, the web 2.0 accounts they are listing on it, and compare it to the accounts listed by libraries on Friendfeed.