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This is a recording of the November 19, 2009 meeting of the SELCO ILS Operations & Technology Policy Joint Committee. Part 1 of 2.

This is a recording of the November 19, 2009 meeting of the SELCO ILS Operations & Technology Policy Joint Committee. Part 2 of 2.

Ann Hutton, SELCO Executive Director, highlights action items and discussion points of the SELCO/SELS Executive Committee Meeting from November 23, 2009. This Board Recap is a regular program once a month after Board & Executive Committee Meetings.

WolframAlpha.com is tackling the very ambitious goal of making "all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone". This episode of SELCOtv highlights a couple of ways to access this diverse information to help answer patrons' reference questions.

The National Endowment for the Humanities & the American Library Association are offering a grant of books and bonus materials to 4000 libraries that center around the theme "A More Perfect Union".

SELCO staff have a variety of job titles and responsibilities. In this SELCOtv mini-series, we'll meet staff members and find out what they do here at SELCO on a day-to-day basis. This episode introduces you to Melanie Olson, ILL & Delivery Assistant.

Donovan Lambright, SELCO's Automation Librarian, talks about the regularly scheduled times set aside for server maintenance.

Speaker(s): David Nicholas - Director of the Department of Information Studies, UCL Centre for Publishing and CIBER research group, University College London; Christopher Warnock - CEO and CTO, ebrary; Mark Kendall-Senior Vice President, Global Sales, ...

Players: Ann Marie Breaux (YBP), Jennifer Clarke (Bucknell U.) , Eleanor Cook (East Carolina U.) , Todd Hallerman (Elsiever), Audrey Melkin (Atypon), Steve O’Dell (Ebsco), John Riley (Gabriel Books)

Facebook is known for its wide variety of games and other fun applications, but it also has many apps that are useful to librarians and our patrons. CiteMe is one such app - it allows a Facebook user to enter in a book's title, author or ISBN and it ...

A PSA produced by Robin Katz and narrated by Jake Barickman of the University of Vermont Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives. The video was created using Apple's Keynote and i-Movie on a MacBook Pro.

The Librarians' Index to the Internet (lii.com) is a wonderful resource when you're looking for reliable, librarian-recommended websites on a wide variety of topics.

This wide-ranging interview with one of the nation’s top youth studies scholars includes a review of Dr. Males’ large body of research, hison youth, culture and public policy, as well as implications for our own library institutions.

The AquaBrowser Users Group Meeting is a group that meets on an irregular basis to discuss changes and updates to our iPac to AquaBrowser conversion. This meeting took place on November 5, 2009 and covered the upcoming library & patron testing roll-out & ...

The AquaBrowser Users Group Meeting is a group that meets on an irregular basis to discuss changes and updates to our iPac to AquaBrowser conversion. This meeting took place on November 5, 2009 and covered the upcoming library & patron testing roll-out & ...

The AquaBrowser Users Group Meeting is a group that meets on an irregular basis to discuss changes and updates to our iPac to AquaBrowser conversion. This meeting took place on November 5, 2009 and covered the upcoming library & patron testing roll-out & ...

I had a library school student who emailed me some questions about Web 2.0 and libraries. Rather than reply via email, I made this video. This video also serves double duty as my Day 6 video for NaVloPoMo. Take a look at libraryvoice.com/videos for my ...

New LibrarianshipNovember 5th, 2009“New Librarianship” Keynote Charleston Conference 2009, Charleston, SC.

If you have patrons coming into the library with medical reference questions, you need a good, reliable source to answer them. Written by the Mayo Clinic staff, MayoClinic.com is a great resource to answer questions about diseases, treatments and much ...