Young Librarians of the Future podcast...

So, one of the things I've been up to in the last year is hosting my first podcast "Introducing the Future Librarians Gang" where we discussed current/pending issues in librarianship and the profession. This was something I thoroughly enjoyed, even if it was a tad nerve-wracking. Fortunately, the contributors were all fresh and dynamic (unlike my good self) and we've decided to make an irregular series of this. I'm just prepping for a second recording later this week, this time on reader development (a subject I get VERY passionate about as it was very close to me back in my "library days").

I'll keep people informed of progress through this blog, but hope to have this out in the next few weeks.

Clusty

Clusty offers good examples of both of faceting and tag clouds - worth a look to see how a fairly typical metasearch engine can offer a greatly enhanced user experience with a couple of well implemented tools. I like it.

Well, I'm back...

Nearly a year has passed since my last post. Why did I stop? Why am I starting again? What's happened in the last year?

I stopped because of a "mantra" I'm trying to apply to my work life - "maximum value, minimum effort". I got to a point where I was putting effort/time into blogging that I felt could be far more effective against the 1001 other things that Talis are doing.

I'm starting again cuz (a) of the effort of telling people this everytime I get an "ooo, you've not put anything on yer blog for a while..." is making me twitch (b) I now feel confident enough to not spend more than 5 mins on a post and (c) it's a good medium for exercising the old brain cells

As for whats happened in the last year, I'm sure I'll mention it at some point...

Resource Discovery Posts

Been quiet for a while, for variety of reasons (run off my feet, to be honest). One of the many time consumers recently has been the UnityWeb Roadshows. If you want to read my posts about these, need to go over to Panlibus, the main Talis blog.

Resource Discovery roadshow kicks off (27th Jan 2006)

Delivering Resource Discovery to the User (6th Feb 2006)

I hope to get back into the habit of a post a week, probably shared between here and Panlibus, so keep yer RSS reader pointing this way...