Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Top 10 Technologies and 10 Ideas for Improving Library Productivity

Speaker: Michael Stephens

Most of his points are obvious in the presentation, so all I am adding here are some additional notes that came up during the talk.

There are sites that create “trading cards” for staff. I wonder how or if we could use these.

We could use delicious (social bookmarking) site as a way to provide information literacy links, etc. I am thinking of using this as a way of setting up links we use for the Tech Team.

Meebo for virtual reference … I understand it now has “voice mail.”

Dropbox is an interesting service. For free you can have 2G of space. Set up their application on any computer you want and any files placed into the dropbox are synced across all of those PCs (or Macs). And, you can access the files via their Web interface too.

Some institutions are starting Twitter reference service.

[See presentation here: http://tametheweb.com/talks09/TexasTenTechTenIdeas.pdf]

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