Fast look at a wiki

I've been to the alternative PBWiki site and added a book review- something not featured below yet. But for those interested, Stax the library cat's favorite wiki for local course-related library instruction is here

2.0 anyone?

Tim Berners-Lee has a quote I'd like to see applied to libraries, too: "Let's use the Web to help people understand each other.” We made the jump from clay tablets to scrolls to codexes to the ubiquitous bound book; we'll make this one as well. Transmission mediums change, but content is the goal.

Baggage claim

Odd to find myself first when searching for "oulibraries" tag here today. But I've got my blog luggage claimed, and having these entries tagged made it easier. It's been several days since I'd checked previously, and I'd not show up when finding 3966, 16, and 491 hits respectively under the "Learning 2.0" tag for All Blogs, Tag search, and Blog directory searches. No surprizes among Technorati top searches, nor over duplication between the top "favorited" and top blog columns-- Boing Boing would appear to be the pick of the lot.

Tastes ok

The usual websites from my roll below I've tagged in del.cio.us, and found that of scads of other philosophy items bookmarked, the metaphysics entry from our Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Didn't know we could bookmark our paid resources. I've added it as well to mine at http://del.icio.us/refhobbit

Keep on rollin'

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my Refhelper has some tried and true sites to search- perhaps try Kierkegaard to get a sense of it. Here's what's on the roll:

http://www.academicinfo.net/
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
http://lii.org/
http://www.digital-librarian.com/
http://www.ipl.org/ref/
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm

My taste is showing

Or perhaps its absence- some of my choices attract a respectable crowd, but others are quite poorly attested. Available at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/refhobbit

Cuneiform rocks

Stax, library cat, spelled for the author of Gilgamesh. Yeah, I know they were clay tablets, but hey. Try it out yourself here

For those with a preference

Though there’d be reasons to use all the featured options, I like Blogline’s search tool best. lii shows up in the most popular- it was also easy to find LJ’s reference review feed.

Reference sources with RSS

Access Science, Oxford English Dictionary, and Safari Tech are 3 of our reference sources that offer RSS- you may want to add them to your feeds.