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1. [100.00%] Participatory Networks The Library as

role of libraries. Wikis, blogs, and recommender systems replace dial-up bulletin boards and local databases as a means to empower our communities. What's more, these technologies can bring the ideal of the participatory model to our most

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2. [46.77%] Text Message Reference: Is It Effective? | Stacking the Tech - 10/15/2009 -...

SMS may be the perfect gateway to reference services, says Ellyssa Kroski.

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3. [46.77%] Marketing Trends To Watch - 10/1/2009 - Library Journal

Five years ago, when I first came to Libraryland, I felt a strong, wary, and mistrustful vibe attached to marketing. It was perceived as irrelevant, a flash in the pan, without intrinsic value. Libraries had managed long enough without marketing,

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4. [46.77%] Reference BackTalk: Shift Happens–Moving Reference to Circulation - 7...

After much reflection, the Middlesex Community College Library in Connecticut took the plunge last summer. Are we talking a day at the beach? A dip in someone

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5. [40.32%] TITLE: Reference in Academic Libraries:

Limited Media Types Blogs · · · · 7% (8 million people ) of the 120 million U.S. adults who use the internet have created a blog 27% of internet users say they read Blogs 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers 12%

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6. [40.32%] TITLE: Using Virtual Reference to Rule

internet users say they read blogs 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers 12% of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_blogging_data.pdf blogs Pros Easy to

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7. [39.52%] Lessons of Good Customer Service - 9/1/2009 - Library Journal

Before going to library school, I asked a friend why he

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8. [39.52%] Shootin’ the Sh*t with Kevin Smith: The Best of SModcast. - 8/11/2009...

Jersey boy Kevin Smith is a pop culture demigod. His films have a moderate but fiercely loyal following, and his “Evening With” personal appearances regularly sell out arenas from colleges to Carnegie Hall.

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9. [39.52%] Threats Lead to Event Cancellation at Library of Congress - 8/20/2009 ...

More Content Blogs Podcasts Photos Blogs SHELFRENEWAL Karen Kleckner , Head of Reader Services and Public Relations Coordinator, Deerfield (IL) Public Library November 16, 2009 If Jodi Picoult

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10. [39.52%] Graphic Grown Up - 8/15/2009 - Library Journal

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