Free webcast on RSS for librarians

On August 7 there's a free webcast sponsored by the Sirsi-Dynix Institute entitled Free Your Content! RSS for Librarians. Here's some info:

The program will describe what RSS is and how to use it in a variety of ways in libraries: to make it easier for users to find out about your collections and programs, to push subject-related content to patrons, and to publish dynamic content on a variety of pages. There are many tools that make generating RSS feeds, subscribing to RSS feeds, displaying RSS feeds and mixing RSS feeds an incredibly simply proposition for those with little technical knowledge. In addition, they will show you how to use RSS to easily keep up with the topics you are interested in without having to visit multiple websites each day.

The speakers are both smart people with good blogs -- Meredith Farkas from Information Wants to be Free and Paul Pival from The Distant Librarian.

Share your conference presentations

Ever get the weird feeling that the people who know most about what your work on are random people at conferences, whereas your own colleagues don't know? The answer is yes -- I've had this conversation with at least half of you. I think we should start using this blog to tell each other what we're presenting. So I'll start by showing a poster about the Library Article Linker that Tito Sierra and I made and I presented at the LAUNCH-CH 2007 Annual Research Forum at UNC in May. The poster is here. It's not a great example because I can't imagine the Library Article Linker is directly relevant to your work, but it's what I've got.

Josh B

Just thought everyone should know - new students are creeping into the Commons and trying to navigate our printing system!