The dangers of mis-sorting

Substitute little girl for user who can’t access records…

From the #archives: Internal #PostOffice #poster on the dange… on Twitpic.

I survived…

Just back from two days (well, a day and a half in my case) at the Survive or Thrive conference run by JISC/UKOLN.  I want to reflect a bit more on the themes and the content of the conference, so that’s a post for another day.

Today’s post is just to reflect the laptop : smartphone : iPad : no device visibly in use ratio from day 1

27 : 4 : 1 : 22

And this wordle perhaps gives a flavour from the day 1 keynote and other scene-setting papers of the conference

SorT conference wordle

25 things week 4: RSS feeds

I realised I did this thing and then posted comments on other people’s blogposts about them without posting anything on mine….so catching up:

• What do you like about RSS and newsreaders?
  I only have to check one place for updates.  I use Netvibes as my feed reader and have a number of tabs for the range of feeds (blogs and other things) that I follow.   Given the number of accounts and online traces I already leave, I decided not to set up an additional bloglines account though.
  

(Treasure) Trove

Really impressed by the new aggregated search Trove from the National Library of Australia http://trove.nla.gov.au

I’ve had a very quick play with it and have been able to find easily sources for part of my family history (I know….).  It’s a very attractive site, and seems intuitive to use.  Am simultaneously marvelling and grateful at the underpinning standards for description and indexing which has made this possible.  no doubt will find some holes but very impressed.

Here’s a picture of some initial search results: