Ellyssa Kroski's Digital Stream

I have just finished reading Sue Polanka’s extremely helpful No Shelf Required Guide to E-Book Purchasing. This timely Library Technology Report outlines the various ways to purchase…

Google+ has surpassed 40 million users, making it a major player in the social networking arena. If you’re wondering how to leverage this social media channel for your organization you’ll want to…

The past month has been great for library technology news, articles, and blog posts. Here’s a roundup of 17 of them that you won’t want to miss. and please list any other recent library tech stories…

This is part of a series of posts which is based on a 3-hour hands-on workshop I offer on this topic. Be sure and check out the preceding posts:

Personal Digital Archiving: An Overview
Personal…

The folks at Educause have put together a new “7 Things” guide, this time describing 7 Things You Should Know About First-Generation Learning Analytics. “Broadly speaking, analytics programs…

The folks at It’s Not About the Books write about the Return of the Coffeehouse: How to turn your library into an ideas factory. This is a thought-provoking article about yet another innovative…

This year I had the chance to attend and participate in the Online Information 2011 conference in London, England. What I love about going to this event is that I get to hear a global perspective…

Jon Kalish at NPR reports that Libraries Make Room For High-Tech ‘Hackerspaces’. This interesting article describes how some public libraries are creating cutting-edge technology spaces…

Michelle Boule talks about her new book Mob Rule Learning: Camps, Unconferences, and Trashing the Talking Head with Wired Campus in Q & A: a Onetime Librarian Talks About the ‘Unconference’…

This is the second half of a two-part post about Open Access resources that I share with my students as a part of my Intro to Reference course. Be sure and check out Part 1 here.

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Todd Wasserman at Mashable creates a list of the Top 6 Social Media Marketing Trends of 2011. This useful list discusses the significant upgrades and improvements made by major social media…

As a part of my Intro to Reference course I try and introduce Open Access (OA) resources and directories to my students. Since many of them have found these resources useful I thought I’d share them…

We’ve had some major news amongst location-aware mobile social networks this past week. Foursquare has tripled its user base from this time last year, according to ReadWriteWeb and has…

Sarah Kessler at Mashable recommends 5 Best Practices for Educators on Facebook. This useful article gathers tips and suggestions from teachers on how to effectively use Facebook in the…

This is part of a series of posts which is based on a 3-hour hands-on workshop I offer on this topic. Be sure and check out the preceding post:

Personal Digital Archiving: An Overview

Strategy

When you put a back-up system into place, you work very hard to make sure to include absolutely everything. But when you start thinking about creating a personal digital archive, (PDA), you want to consider which of your digital assets are worth saving for the long-term and which ones you are willing to invest the time in maintaining throughout their information life cycles.