Maximizing your internet presence

Hello all

Its been a long time since I've posted.

I found a very interesting piece on maximizing your interesting presence from Lorcan Dempsey on his blog at: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002177.html

It is a resource provided by the Strategic Content Alliance in the UK and is especially relevant to libraries who need to have a web presence in this day and time when most people search for information on the internet. The social media are something that libraries need to embrace to capture the attention of  the young people today to share information and library activities.

"This document has been produced following a very successful series of workshops during 2010, commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) under the title Maximising Online Resource Effectiveness (MORE). The purpose was to promote most effective use of the internet by SCA member organisations, with an emphasis on producing, maintaining, promoting and developing content available as an online resource."

The link to the PDF is here: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/themes/content/sca/SCAMOREGuide.pdf

Something of interest from the Booklist blog

The Booklist blog has an entry about technology in the library with a link to the Educase website.
The link is here

Here is the link to a paper available on Educase on Undergraduate students and Technology:
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/ECARStudyofUndergraduateStuden/217333

Another Educase article recommended by the blog post about information technology in the library "3.0" is at:
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45/You30TheMostImportantEvolvingT/218701

Both have valuable information for librarians and the evolving library.

A blog I just found digitalcollaboration

"where digital librarians, archivists, museologists and computer scientists come together"


Courtesy of the USF school of information on Facebook.  Link here
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The Survey of Library and Museum Digitization Projects, 2011 Edition

 The Survey of Library and Museum Digitization Projects, 2011 Edition has been published.

"The nearly 200 page report looks closely at how academic, public and special libraries and museums are digitizing special and other collections. The study is based on detailed data on costs, equipment use, staffing, cataloging, marketing, licensing revenue and other facets of digitization projects from nearly 100 libraries and museums in the United States, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, and Australia."

Details are available at the website.