The winter issue of the Chronicle is out.
- Survey results
- Member profiles of Jackie Knuckle and Jeanette de Richemond
- The TechnoHumanist on Zotero
- Chapter membership: the state of the union
- much more!
Monthly Archive for March, 2008Page 2 of 4
Thanks to everyone—and there were a lot of you—who responded to the communications survey! Since launching the new site last Summer, this is the first formal investigation into its use. Our site is powered by WordPress which allows any chapter member to contribute. One person wrote that the chapter wants members to use the blog. Just to clarify: the chapter wants its members to communicate using whatever technology is appropriate. (Talking is good.) But, yes, please do try the blog out. Let’s all learn together. Please consider promoting your work on the website. Are you promoting Women’s History Month with an exhibition in your library? Did you talk to a community group about health information? Toot your own horn. Post about it to let your colleagues know and to let the public see the great work we do. While our website’s main target audience is its members, the public and our stakeholders—employers, vendors, users—are also important. We get a lot more hits than are accounted for by the 64 people who responded that they’ve viewed the site. Many of our visitors come from search engine queries on names of our members and their institutions; consider this as a way to publicize your information services and the value you add to your organizations.
The survey addressed readership, authorship, and value. Full results are summarized here.
Thursday, March 13, 2008: The U.S. Senate voted 95 to 4 in favor of adopting the “Specter/Harkin” amendment to the Senate’s fiscus year (FY) 2009 budget resolution. This amendment authorizes an additional $2.1 billion for NIH in FY 2009. This would bring the agency’s total potential funding level up to $32.2 billion. This is an important first step to increasing NIH funding. Click on the link above to read Senator Specter’s floor statement.
Ballots have been mailed as of Friday, March 14th. Any paid member who does not receive a ballot by Wednesday, March 19 should contact Nina Long at 215-898-3826 or nlong@wistar.org.
Okay, I missed the deadline for the MLA’s web2.0 101 class, but Rachel Resnick didn’t. She’s signed up and turned in her first assignment:
http://rachels101blog.blogspot.com/
Step 4: How do you think you could use RSS feeds at your library? How do you think patrons could use RSS feeds? Write a brief response on your blog.
I currently use them to keep up with various types of weblogs and webpages (via Page2RSS) regarding issues to my place of employment; once I find them, I either then email the links to the people who would be interested in them, and/or save them to a Furl account; I’m hoping this course will give me additional options.
Anyone else taking the class?
[Update] Follow along at the course blog where students are reflecting on how this will be useful in their professional life.
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