Why not take advantage of some free time and get a head start on some upcoming classes.
Free being the important word here….LIS Grad students love these sites.
Only after your morning bike ride and reading some chapters from your …
Category Archives: Tutorial Tuesday
Tutorial Tuesday: Visualization
…Libraries col?lect a?lot of data that encom?pass com?plex net?works about how users nav?i?gate through online resources, which sub?jects cir?cu?late the most or the least, which resources are requested via inter?li?brary loan, vis?i?ta?tion pat?terns over peri?ods of time, ref?er?ence queries, and
Tutorial Tuesday: Analytics for evaluation
This four-part tutorial at NeoLib guides you through planning for and measuring the effectiveness of a library website:
A Brief Intro to Web Analytics and Web Optimization for Libraries Pt 1
A Brief Intro to Web Analytics and Web Optimization …
Tutorial Tuesday: Reusing MARC
To kick off our Open Access Week celebrations, I would like to highlight one of my favorite digital archive projects: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Why do I love the BHL? It’s focused, creative, and pragmatic, as you’ll see in …
Tutorial Tuesday: Mashups
Libraries are enhancing their own services using APIs from a variety of web services. You’ll be seeing many examples this semester in our Wednesday Spark posts, but it can be difficult to know where to start with your own mashup. …
Tutorial Tuesday: Yahoo Pipes
Learn to use Yahoo Pipes by building something useful with this tutorial from Tony Hirst’s blog. Dr. Hirst presents a practical and focused use of the Yahoo Pipes service for tracking journal articles by subject.
Even …
Tutorial Tuesday: Feed bundles
MakeUseOf has a clear, simple tutorial for creating feed bundles in Google Reader, including some ideas for presenting the bundles to your community.
Google Reader gives you several ways to share bundles, letting anyone read the aggregated content or subscribe …