Things 7, 8, 9

Phew! 23 Things feels a bit harder this week as I have 23 million other things to do.

Luckily, I have done some of this stuff already. I have always used Firefox because I understood this was a more secure browser which is updated more regularly than some other browsers and will keep all the nasty viruses at bay (I hope!). I will investigate some of the other benefits further...

  by  Joe Shlabotnik 

I have received Doodle requests in the past but this is the first time I gave sent one, so I am interested to see how this works.

Really Something Simple!

Woh!  These RSS feeds really are simple!

Having fun embedding feeds for librarianship and indie music record shops.  Well, you need balance in your life....

  by  HeatherWeaver 

CPD25

Earlier this week I spoke at a CPD25 event looking at developing library support for researchers.  

My session largely covered the RLUK project I am involved with investigating researchers needs and how subject librarians are supporting these now and how they intend to develop support in the future.  Other speakers included Joanna Ball from Sussex, Nicola Wright (who spoke about research support activities at LSE, including their postcard project) and Michelle Schneider, Academic Skills Development Officer at Leeds, who gave a very interesting presentation about their Researcher@Library web site.

Thing 4

Isn't it nice when you discover that you have already done your homework?!

I must admit, that didn't happen often but I was pleased to discover that my attempt to set up an iGoogle account a couple of years ago still looks okay.  I have changed the wallpaper but the rest looks useful still.  Better make more use of it now...

...and as it is Friday afternoon

...two cool things (whilst I am learning to embed things!):

Some Cambodian pop music...and a funny little kid who sounds like the Aphex Twin:

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Silent movie for silent profession?

This is a cool video I wanted to share.

Enjoy!

23 Things

I have just checked how many blogs have been set up by Warwick Library staff.  

So how many blog things have been set up so far?  

The number is a bit freaky.... 23!

Neurotic blogger?

On the train to my RLUK meeting I read an interesting article in Metro about blogging.  Apparently, your writing style can betray your personality!  Extroverts (for some reason) use the words 'bar', 'drinks' and 'dancing' in their online diaries, whilst neurotic bloggers employ 'awful', 'though', 'lazy', 'worse' and 'depressing' in their blogs.

Though I have read worse, I found this awful piece of lazy research quite depressing...

D'oh - I think I have just given too much of myself away....

RLUK subject librarian project

Had a really useful meeting yesterday to progress the RLUK Workforce Think Tank project looking at the information needs of researchers, how subject librarians (and allied staff) are supporting them and what skills will be needed in the future.

We hope to have the report out soon.

1 Thing, swiftly followed by Thing 2

Hello World of Social Networking,

After years of writing and talking about Web 2.0 (obvioulsy with great authority) and encouraging others to use Web 2.0 technologies (with great force) I am - at last - using the technology myself!

I am really looking forward to trying out the tools I have shied away from (like blogging) and getting more out of the tools I have played with (You Tube, Flickr and delicious ...or whatever there is this week).

I am concerned about finding the time to do this but it looks like the Warwick programme has factored in a lot of (much needed) catch-up time.

This Blogger software looks quite staright forward (I have already changed the font to my beloved Helvetica) and I look forward to playing about with colour, images and video - hey, fiddling with fonts, developing branding ...this is pretty much like my real life!

Stay tuned for more observations.