Learn from your colleagues Talk to the people you work with everyday, but not just other librarians. Talk to your IT staff and your part-timers too. You can learn a lot about what is hot technologically from your computer lab attendants and your shelvers. You can also learn from the colleagues that you dont see every day, and even from colleagues you dont know!
Blogs, wikis, chat, IM, even e-mail, can help you learn about new trends and developments that are headed your way. There are some interesting and fun library technology blogs out there and we should take advantage of them. Check out things like the Library Journal Tech Blog (http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/670000067.html), ALAs TechSource (http://www.techsource.ala.org/), Tame the Web (http://www.tametheweb.com/ttwblog/), The Shifted Librarian (http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/), and Liblog (http://www.rcpl.info/services/liblog.html). Remember to take advantage of the time savers that are available to us today like RSS feeds, digests, and database alerts. FONTE: LIRT News, June 2006 _______________________________________________ Bib_virtual mailing list [email protected] https://listas.ibict.br/mailman/listinfo/bib_virtual
