If you haven’t yet seen the two cookbooks put out by MaintainIT, you should take a look. In addition to these resources, they have started a series of free, monthly, 30-minute webinars on topics pulled from the cookbooks.
The first was today, April 16th — Notes from a Laptop Circulation Program. It is archived, so you [...]
I have subscribed to the Generator Blog. It’s posts have become the ones I most enjoy — including this one. Create your own O’Reilly Book Cover!
If you haven’t found it yet, most of the presentations from the 2007 Internet Librarian conference are now available. There were a number of presenters from Texas:
Karen Coombs, University of Houston Libraries — co-presented AJAX for Libraries & Screencasting & E-Learning on a Shoestring
Michelle Boule, University of Houston Libraries — co-presented Academic Library 2.0 [...]
The latest issue of Library Technology Reports 43:2 (March/April 2007) was written by Sarah Houghton-Jan, the LibrarianInBlack. Titled Technology Competencies and Training for Libraries:
“This work,” summarizes Houghton-Jan, “is an attempt to fill the gap in knowledge about documenting technology competencies with overall guiding principles, examples of successful projects, and project-management guidelines for those embarking [...]
Rachel Singer Gordon and Michael Stephens wrote an article for the May 2006 issue of Computers in Libraries called “Ten Tips for Technology Training.” (Sorry — there is a fee for this one.) For those of you who have been doing this for some time, there are no surprises here — just good [...]
After a number of years, the Library Technology Consultant position at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission has been filled. Eduardo Loera, lately from Portland, Oregon, but previously from Texas has been hired.
[from Library Developments]
TechEssence.Info is a technology web site/blog for library decision makers. It’s goal is to provide easy to understand information about technology. From the web site:
You’re busy. You don’t have time for a lot of jargon, techie posturing, or attitudes. You’ve come to the right place. We don’t put you down, we don’t talk [...]
HigherEd BlogCon is ” . . . a fully web-based event focused on how new online communications technologies and social tools are changing Higher Education.” The Library and Information Resources track starts today, runs through Friday the 14th, and is available for you to subscribe and/or read.
Microsoft Unlimited Potential provides technology training materials that can be used in a face-to-face setting or as part of a self-paced learning program. The different modules cover:
Computer fundamentals
Using the Internet and World Wide Web
Digital Media Fundamentals
Word processing fundamentals
Spreadsheet fundamentals
Presentation fundamentals
Web design fundamentals
Database fundamentals
The course materials are available in:
English
Arabic
French
German
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Thai
Vietnamese
Traditional Chinese
Bahasa Malaysia
[from LibrarianInBlack]
The Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain has put out a comic book-style story on the public domain called Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law? It seems to be very well done. I’m definitely not an expert on copyright, but the characters make good points — most of [...]
