Here are a few sample interview questions (these are not the exact questions I use, by the way) You are responsible for hiring a new employee. A friend has asked you to hire them. How would you handle this situation? Please explain your supervisory and management experience including review of work, training and hiring. What is your management and training style? Have you ever fired ...
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Digital legacy – licensing, copyright, and sharing your collection
Like | robinna | Sep 3, 2012 | music
Really interesting. If you don’t own any of you content – your books , your thoughts, your music – what do you will? What is your intellectual legacy? Solicitor Chris Walton said: ‘Lots of people will be surprised on learning all those tracks and books they have bought over the years don’t actually belong to them. It’s only natural you would want to pass them ...
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Musings on the illusion of Facebook friendship
Like | robinna | Sep 1, 2012 | Life, social media, social media policy
I’m going to have to say that Facebook has been an interesting social experiment. In terms of brands, businesses, and institutions, I think it is a great tool in marketing and building community support. In terms of personal accounts, I’m just not sure. Maybe moving everyone to a page platform where it is public or private (sounds very twitter like, mmm?) would clarify things. Because ...
Linked data, Libraries – How, Why & MARC
Like | robinna | Aug 30, 2012 | Libraries, Library Catalogs (ILS), linkeddata, semantic web, social media, tutorials
Two excellent presentations together, one focused on MARC/linked data; the second focuses on user experience but in terms of how linked data and the FRBR (Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records) model could possibly impact that experience. The first (Philip E. Schreur, Stanford) focuses on bibliographic data and MARC. Really great overview and explanation of linked data and its potential impact on libraries with a focus ...
Using IFTTT to push instagram to a secondary tumblr blog (or for anything)
Like | robinna | Aug 29, 2012 | photography, social media, that's cool, twitter
Apparently, I signed up for IFTTT a while ago, but I haven’t done anything with it, until I read about this tumblr user who wanted to push his instagram pix to a secondary tumblr blog. His thought was to use the post via email – this approach who would work for most blogs (look under settings to find your blog by email address). Basically what that ...
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How to fix Instagram not posting to Facebook Timeline
Like | robinna | Aug 26, 2012 | mobile, photography, social media
Instagramers: Your photos may not be posting to timeline OR your news feed but will just go into an instagram folder at Facebook. IG is aware of the problem but seems more focused on the News Feed portion. My IG pix stopped posting 2 days ago and do not post to either the news feed or the timeline. Here’s the dets from IG: http://help.instagram.com/customer/portal/articles/493007-facebook-news-feed-share-not-working I ...
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ERIC removes PDFs due to privacy issues
Like | robinna | Aug 25, 2012 | Libraries, metadata, privacy
Researchers have started hitting deadends in ERIC (the Educational Resources Information Center) database when trying to download/view fulltext PDFs. PDFs downloads were ceased due to privacy concerns. I haven’t seen much written about this other than a brief post at Inside Higher Ed. ERIC’s statement included this message: A limited number of ERIC full-text documents are available at this time due to privacy concerns about ...
Teaching and Presentations: Metadata, Semantic Web, Social Media
Like | robinna | Aug 22, 2012 | social media, twitter
Open classes for September:Social Media: Facebook for Pages (not just for libraries by the way). This 2 day class covers everything from privacy, setting up an institutional/business account to customizing a page… Separate your personal Facebook account from an institutional account Create a customized presence in Facebook Add special features using plugins and apps Roll your blog, bookmarks, or twitter into a Facebook page Create a ...
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Updates on RDA (LIbrary metadata; 264; authority records, more)
New MARC 264 field (publishing): Few examples of RDA records in OCLC (and/or in LC’s catalog) with the new MARC 264 field; most seem to be using only a 264 in lieu of a 260 which seems to follow the recommendations of the RDA proposal. #56451778 264 1Sawtry, Cambs : ǂb Dedalus, ǂc 2004. #20722916 (record in LC has not been updated) but the fields ...
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AACr2 The Movie (Humor)
Like | robinna | Aug 10, 2012 | Libraries, Library Catalogs (ILS), metadata
I don’t even have a comment for this… I do so hope they do RDA the Movie. AACR2 Trailer from David Ross on Vimeo.