Librarian Way

If you want to keep up with what is happening in libraries as they move from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 / Library 2.0, Michael Casey’s LibraryCrunch blog should be added to your RSS aggregator.

Speaking of Library 2.0, Michael Stephens has a readable overview of what it is on ALA Techsource: Do Libraries Matter: On Library & Librarian 2.0.

This is fun! While researching what librarians are saying about social software, I came across Librarian Trading Cards in a note on Steve Lawson’s blog. He also links to a librarian trading card of Michael Stephens on flickr.

This is a fun way to market librarians as cool people.

There is a lot of great stuff over on the MassonBisson.com Web site. I am putting this link here so that I don’t forget about it. He has provided a number of links to papers and tutorials for Using XML in PHP5, which I may need in my current project.

I am currently enrolled in two classes in SJSU SLIS. One is a special projects class where I am doing back-end PHP coding for the redesign of the SLIS Web site. Having studied XML/XSLT, I am going to investigate if the PHP/XML option will be better for something that I need to do, rather than getting involved in setting up a MySQL database for something very lightweight.

I went to Casey Bisson’s blog because I am writing a paper about Web 2.0, and I wanted to clarify something I remember him writing about creating a search in Lamson Library using A9.com. I found what I was looking for in his NEASIS&T presentation posted on one of his blogs at NEASIS&T Buy, Hack or Build Followup.