Yesterday MPOW held its spring support staff symposium in Wilmington, Ohio. My Executive Director and I had an opportunity to speak about text-based communication and etiquette. In a short amount of time, we covered email, instant messaging, text messaging, and social networks.
Most of it is common sense, but common sense isn’t always common, right?
We’ve been using Drupal at MPOW for almost three years, but I feel like there’s still tons to learn. Drupal is really hot in libraries right now and it seems like everyone is talking about it. Below are the Drupal posts and resources I’ve come across in just the past week or so. Drink it up!
Oh, if you are near Cincinnati there is a Drupal Users Group here that formed a few months ago. The group is shaping up nicely and is great for newbies and gurus. Meetings are at 6:30pm on the 1st Wednesday of each month at the Public Library’s main branch.
Linux Journal is one of the few magazine subscriptions I’ve kept. However, there’s also a lot of free content on the site. So I was pleased to see a recent blog post on LinuxJournal.com about open source and libraries.
The post is based on Aaron Swartz’s rant against OCLC and WorldCat. It is, however, a valid rant. Libraries have tolerated OCLC’s “less than open” practices because there wasn’t much alternative. Now that open alternatives such as Open Library and ‡biblios.net are growing, it will be interesting to see what happens. With the growing popularity of open source in libraries, having open records and open cataloging will be very important.
The Kentucky Library Association held its annual conference this past week. On Thursday I presented Integrating Web 2.0 Tools into Your Web Site. The session covered easy ways to integrate content from Google Calendar, Custom Search Engine, Maps, YouTube, Flickr, and RSS feeds.
Most of the slides are screenshots and the URL for the tool or example site can be found at the top of each of those slides.
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