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good OCLC reporting

Just put down OCLC’s report Content, Not Containers (pdf here). It’s a really good look at the changing information landscape, particularly the way information is no longer dependent upon the format of delivery, and how this is something that should be on the radar of every library and librarian. This passage called RSS [...]

we’re bloggy, finally!

We went live with our new blog at work today, woot! I’m quite happy with the way it looks and how it’s working. I’ll be writing up something a bit more detailed on our implementation soon (software, etc.), so keep an eye out for that.
Also, I’m currently working on a posting [...]

demo blog

TangognaT (who is all about palindromes, even her knitting blog: KnittinK. So clever!) is looking to set up a reference blog for internal communication and has a demo going that you can help her out with.
I’ve been wanting to do something similar where I work, so I’m all over this one.

fresh(ish)

Just added a whole slew of library blogs to the list. Note: not all of these are New, some of them are just new to me.
Public:

Siletz Public Library

Southlake Public Library

Academic:

Auburn University Libraries - What’s New

Birkbeck College Library - News & Web Site Updates

Ohio University Libraries News

University of Baltimore Law Library Weblog

Knowledge @ Wharton

What’s New [...]

online conference

Online Social Networks 2004 is an online conference about all things social-networkish, including blogs (of course). Two librarians (who are fast becoming the poster kids for blogs-in-libraries, wonderful!) will presenting on the topic, no doubt compellingly and elegantly, so you might want to consider attending.