BlogJunction Vermont
A blog by the VT Dept. of Libraries to communicate with the VT library community
Followers of Vermont’s 23 Things, we’ve arrived at Week 8!
This week, we’ll be learning more about tagging and looking closely at del.icio.us and technorati, two Web 2.0 applications that take serious advantage of tagging (we’ve already looked at a few; Flickr, LibraryThing, and blogs all use tags). Tagging allows you to associate keywords [...]
Hey everyone!
If it’s Monday there must be a new Thing. Welcome to Week 5 of Vermont’s 23 Things, (and by the way, it’s still not too late to participate.)
This week’s adventure is about Social Networks. We’ll be learning all about Facebook and MySpace.
If you haven’t already, it’s also not too late to set [...]
WJ Communities of the Month: Vermont and Equal Access
WebJunction Vermont and Equal Access understand the value of training librarians to address community health and use technology to expand their services. Equal Access provides professional development programs for librarians, and library staff share their work in the Showcase. Vermont offers public librarians technology credits to [...]
So I guess multiple homepage tabs for browsers have been around at least as long as the tabs themselves, but I only got around to figuring them out a couple of weeks ago. I had decided that there were at least four web sites that I wanted always to be no more than a a [...]
Serving the Health Information Needs of Your Patrons: Consumer Health Information Resources for Librarians
There is still room for you at this workshop with a great speaker from Dana Medical Library, UVM. Public librarians may receive two technology credits toward a certificate of public librarianship.
Looking forward to seeing all of you!
Geared mainly toward public librarians, this [...]
Serving the Health Information Needs of Your Patrons: Consumer Health Information Resources for Librarians
Geared mainly toward public librarians, this 2 hour session will cover consumer health information resources available both in print and online. The class will also examine collection development tools for choosing consumer health materials, and the resources, services and programs for [...]
Following up on Amy Howlett’s article in the DOL News No. 139, Winter 2008(in PDF format), I have been making some changes to the toolbar, cleaning up links and adding a few others. If you would rather skip all of my blathering about the toolbar that follows, just go to http://librariesvermont.mylibrarytoolbar.com/Home/ to get a taste of some of [...]