Apr 24 2007
Multiple Personality Disorder?
At the end of last week in ICT Librarian mode I showed edublogs to a colleague from East Lothian Library HQ. He is keen to have a blog and may well have contacted David Gilmour by now. I also encouraged him to look at one or two other blogs, including Euan’s. Same colleague was interested to see the structure of the GLOW portal. I’m sure there will be places to link public libraries in East Lothian to GLOW. Our students and staff already have access to several online services/portals via East Lothian Library Service.
Also last week I experienced one of these “it’s a small world moments”. I had a phone call from Fiona MacIntyre in the Unison office. She has been contacted via Friends Reunited by one of her best friends at uni who also turns out to be one of my former flatmates. You can run but you can’t hide!
My last unexpected bit of info from last week was when I discovered that one of the founders of Wikipedia has set up Citizendium - a competitor for Wikipedia. Cataloguer Librarian was particulary attracted to The Big Clean Up whilst Research Librarian liked the idea of quality assurance. More details here: Wikipedia ‘broken beyond repair’ says co-founder and Citizendium goes live in beta
Tomorrow is our CRAW lunchtime when our Creative Reading and Writing group meet and Storyteller Librarian gets a rare opportunity to appear.
