L&LR staff blog

Kudos to Social Work (i.e. Kev!), for being the first to use one of my formatted RefWorks books feeds in anger – see below a screenshot of Kev’s Social Works new books feed embedded into a live Blackboard site using feed2js (click for bigger): If you have created your own feed, could you please: Let [...]

I’ve shown a couple of people this idea that Julie and I have been developing for Holbeach – that of using RefWorks to manage a new-books list for the relatively small number of new titles that we receive each year at the campus LRC – and that can be embedded into Blackboard or a subject web page. [...]

In which direction is the University of Lincoln headed over the next few years, in its relationship with technology, its provision of [access to] information [literacy], in its students’ expectations, and in its ability to meet and/or challenge that expectation? And what will the University Library look like as a result of that direction? I’d [...]

I’ve just spent an extremely useful morning in the Friary Learning Centre at Lincoln College, talking to learning centre staff about “Practical Library 2.0“. I was very pleased to have been invited to talk to colleagues there, and to give a demo (entitled “Library 2.0h no, not again…“) of how library workers can use [mostly] [...]

Organised by the East Midlands Section of University College and Research Group on the 28th April and held at the Kimberlin Library, De Montfort University, Leicester, Focus on your teaching was primarily an event for librarians teaching in HE institutions but held relevance for many other staff. It struck me that many of the things [...]

David Lee King has some suggestions… (picked up on UKeiG’s combined feeds Yahoo Pipe). Warwick, Loughborough, Huddersfield, Durham, Exeter, Liverpool, UEA, Birkbeck… on facebook libraries all.

Joss Winn from C.E.R.D. has put together a Netvibes ‘start page’ for his Learning Lab projects, and included (on the Research section of the page), some useful ‘widgets’ of information from the Library, including our blog feed, the podcast tours of the GCW, and search boxes for the catalogue and for the Institutional Repository. You [...]

A few people have asked if we can (and whether we should) set up individual subject-specific blogs. The thing is, we’ve already got ‘em (kind of): Architecture Art & Design Forensic Science Humanities Journalism Law Performing Arts Policy Studies Psychology Social Work Each link is a separate RSS feed of postings to the main L&LR [...]

Jo Alcock of the University of Wolverhampton has written a guest post to Brian Kelly’s UK Web Focus ‘blog, with an overview of Wolves’ Web2.0 initiatives (blogging, social networks, wikis, Google calendar), and explaining some of the barriers they’ve faced in getting these services accepted. http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/library-20-at-the-university-of-wolverhampton/ (Spotted on the UKeiG ‘blog.)

Google have launched an API for their Book Search, and Dave Pattern is already wondering how to nail it to his OPAC… Paul