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Kalamazoo Public Library
Submitted by KalamazooLibrary on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 13:16.Kalamazoo (Michigan) Public Library's website has been recently redesigned and rearchitected to provide easy and fast access to information about library services, holdings, and events. Staff blogs help connect patrons with library staff, highlight recent events and timely news, and call attention to library services. Tightly integrated yet stylistically separate subsites are provided for select services, such as Kids, Tweens, Teens, a community reading program, nonprofit service center, local history, law library, childhood literacy initiative, and more. Typical of the comments received from patrons so far include "clean," "easy to use," "easy to read," and "really impressive."
Refwiki: the PALS Reference Wiki
Submitted by Leo Klein on Sat, 07/07/2007 - 13:12.Billed as a "reference tool for members of the Prairie Area Library System", this is a good example of a wiki being used as an "internal" document.
While many of the pages still need to be fleshed out, there are useful guides to databases and newspapers by location. This can sure come in handy.
There's also a Reference Answer File which leads with the question, "Where do babies come from?" This also contains links to "Answer Files" from other sources.
Feel-good Librarian
Submitted by CogSciLibrarian on Sun, 05/27/2007 - 09:13.A great blog about what it's really like at the reference desk of a public library. Posts are infrequent, and they are always both welcome and inspiring. The tag line of the blog is "why we do this."
ircworld
Submitted by petter on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 15:03.This team blog was created in 2003 by the librarian at the U.S. embassy in Oslo. Posting to ircworld is open to staff of more than 100 overseas libraries and information resource centers (IRCs - see http://ircworld.blogspot.com/worldlist.html) and to the corps of U.S. State Department Information Resource Officers (professional librarians who are also foreign service officers and who supervise the State Department's overseas library program)
Postings fall into two categories:
1.resources/technology of interest to librarians and 2.information/news about public diplomacy which is the overarching purpose of these IRCs
The site provides RSS streams from a number of library and (a few) public diplomacy blogs. Nearly all postings are by the Oslo IRC librarian, who would very much like to see more IRCs contributing..Lots of interesting stuff, check it out!






