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MLA plenary

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I was fortunate enough to be a part of the closing plenary at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting last week. David Rothman, Melissa Rethlefsen, Bart Ragon and I presented on Web 2.0 tools and participated in a panel discussion (with Mark Funk, awesome MLA past president) after the [...]

wikified

Over the past few months, I’ve been debating the future of the list of blogging libraries I maintain on this site. For me, the two crucial questions that needed answering were: is the list still valuable and are people using it? Just as I was about to pose those questions here, I received a small [...]

the coolness of wikis

Since wikis were so hot at CiL, I thought I’d pass along a great resource I just stumbled upon: eastwikkers, a technology blog, is running a fun project called “33 Wikis” where they highlight a wiki a day for the next 33 days. I’ve already seen a couple that look absolutely amazing (Fluwiki, anyone?), [...]

CiL: Information Literacy & Instruction

Kathleen Stacey, Montgomery College; Chad Boeninger, Ohio University
Kathleen discussed the “one-shot” information literacy session and the limitations of such sessions: we have too much information to present so we have to choose what to include and what to leave out. Interesting. I’ve never thought of it that way. For Kathleen, a successful one-shot [...]

quickie

Oh my, look at this: Biz Wiki, a wiki at Ohio University Libraries for business resources available through the library system [via]. I haven’t spent a lot of time with wikis (yet) and certainly haven’t talked about them here, but the one thing that appeals to me right off the bat is the ease [...]