LIS 9763

BONUS QUESTION!!  What's been the hardest thing for you to manage?
Blogging.  Not getting the posts done, but the crafting of them.  I seem to have been switching back and forth between short and way too long, or between good and utter crap.  I haven't found a blog voice yet.  My best blog posts were written when I was so exhausted my personality type flipped from introvert to crazed entertainer..

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Over the course of the past four months, the co-op graduate student has been tasked with the development and implementation of two new pathfinders for key library client groups: Food Safety and Quality and Organic Products. Of particular interest in this process is the use of delicious.com to manage the online resources aspect of the pathfinders. As with any new tool, a great deal of work was done in order to smooth the process for all involved. The following summary points are expanded in some detail in the full report.

I'm trying to make up my mind about whether government libraries are <i>more</i> bureaucratic that the academic and public libraries I've worked at.  I think by definition they have to be because they're tasked with serving a bureaucracy.  And all of them, in some way, are funded by public money.  Which means you're going to get a very big stink if an effort falls flat.
 
"Why are my tax dollars paying for this?"
 

Maybe I spend too much time online (actually no, I definately spend too much time online), but I was raising my eyebrows while reading David Lee King's blogpost about how advertising on MySpace pages might be construed as endorsement.  Do people really still worry about this?
 
 [updated 4/3/09@8:25am]

One of the things I remember from the Instructional methods course I took a few semesters ago was a presentation we had from a librarian working at Conestoga College.  She walked us through some of the process involved in creating a video tutorial to support a task--say using a particular function in a database.  One of the key things I took away from the presentation was to keep it short.  30-60 seconds.

The Paula Webb article: YouTube and libraries: It could be a beautiful relationship.  Oh ALA, will you never stop shuffling your content around? -M

From city to city, I followed her. London. New York. Hong Kong. Witnesses give me fragmentary details, tiny snippets of where she might be absconding to next. Her V.I.L.E. allies cough up more information, but I know I’m running out of time. That’s when I get lucky. A bad pun clicks and I realize it can’t be Montreal or Istanbul she making for. She’s heading back to California, to the one city where she can disappear into the crowd. But I won’t lose her this time.

I know where you’re going, Carmen Sandiego, and you won’t slip through my fingers again. This time, you’re MINE.

It’s time to stay inside and play video games!

   A couple of the blog posts this week have talked about professionalism on social networks, which made me think of linkedin, which is supposedly the professional's version. These came up on one of my feeds a while ago (Feb 9), and I completely forgot about them.
 
    PersonalInfoCloud.com linkedin : Social interaction design lessons learned
 
    All about how social networks can be undermined by their own designers. I found them interesting.   [-Murray]

...not facebooking instead of blogging.