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CIL2010: Well-Organized Sites and Portals

Well-Organized Sites & Portals Mr. Chris Jasek, UCD Portfolio Manager, Elsevier Emily R Shem-Tov, Research Portal Program Manager, Global Market Research & Planning, Adobe Systems, Inc. Jasek offers best practices on how libraries can organize all of the features that their websites offer. He shares a five-step process that explains how to get from understanding […]

CIL2010: New and Hot: The Best of Resource Shelf

New & Hot: The Best of Resource Shelf, with Gary Price, Publisher, ResourceShelf Keeping up with all the changes in our industry and staying one step ahead of our clients require solid strategies to deal with this challenge. Our popular expert shares his ideas, learnings, top tips, and techniques from the search and search engine […]

CIL2010: Experience Design Makeover

My first session at Computers in Libraries 2010: Experience Design Makeover by David Lee King Have customers said your website is confusing? Does your website desperately need an experience design makeover? This session guides you through a real-life library website extreme makeover, focusing on experience design elements used. It provides five ways to jump-start your […]

How is the DC Metro Like A Library?

Anytime you go to a conference, like Computers in Libraries, you learn about all sorts of neat things, hear great ideas, and get excited about taking these ideas home. The trouble (for me, anyway) can be in connecting those exciting ideas to the real world outside of the conference. In his Experience Design Makeover talk, […]

Twitter Widgets

Here are a couple examples of how to mashup Twitter Widgets into your website. They could be used to… compile staff tweets onto a staff page display or follow the tweets of people in your community serve as a news feed follow tweets about a certain event or topic What else?   Example 1: Twitter […]

Going to Computers in Libraries 2010

Next week is Computers in Libraries 2010, and I’m lucky enough to be going and co-presenting a pre-conference workshop with Nicole Engard. Our workshop is Implementing Library Mashups, based partly on the book Nicole edited, Library Mashups. I’m looking forward to hearing Nicole speak, and I’ll present* my chapter, then the rest of the workshop […]