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Wednesday, 13 June 2007

Five Weeks to a Social Library

Five Weeks to a Social Library is the first free completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries.

Five Weeks to a Social Library took place between February 12 and March 17, 2007. However, course content is freely viewable by interested parties and all live Webcasts is archived for later viewing. The course covers the following topics:

Blogs
RSS
Wikis
Social Networking Software and SecondLife
Flickr
Social Bookmarking Software
Selling Social Software @ Your Library

Friday, 1 June 2007

WorldCat

WorldCat is the world's largest networkof library content and services.
WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

The National Library of New Zealand will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to WorldCat, the world's richest database and resource for discovery of materials held in libraries around the globe. As a result, records of items held in New Zealand libraries will be visible to Web searchers worldwide through the OCLC WorldCat.org service, or through popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo!
See more information here.

You can put the WorldCat search box on your website. Just register and copy the HTML code.