Librarian Way

Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science has reasonably priced online workshops in many technology subjects: Workshops and Costs. (Via DIG_REF@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU e-list.) There are classes on digital reference, weblogs and RSS, creating web-based tutorials, and others. The courses offered are hot topics in libraries.

I had no idea that the Librarian’s Index to the Internet LII - New This Week is available as an RSS feed until I started going through Jenny Levine’s Sites I Read in My Aggregator. I was reading her blog post about the software she has installed on her Treo 600, when I noticed the link in her sidebar. No, I don’t have a Treo 600. Sigh.
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I subscribed to Bloglines because Karen Schneider has mentioned it so many times lately on Free Range Librarian. It is an alternative to other online news aggregators and I already find it more useful than having to download, install and maintain software updates on the operating systems that I compute on: Macintosh and Unix.

Apparently, it can also be used for electronic list tracking: Free Range Librarian: Santa Brought Me RSS E-list Tracking, but a later post says that feature is not quite working with e-lists that require a confirmation returned via e-mail from the subscribing address. It works if the e-list has an alternate Web interface that can be accessed with a code from the subscription confirmation mail.
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