HootSuite is a great networking tool since it enables the amalgamation of various social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, MySpace, Foursquare, WordPress, Mixi and TrendSpottr. HootSuite's creator and CEO, Ryan Holmes used crowdsourcing to choose the new name of his company in 2009. In 2012, OMERS recognized this Vancouver company's value and invested $20 million into this dashboard-based media management […]
Here you are at the Reference Desk happily ready to serve the public when you are asked to recommend a story about firefighters for a child in grade 2. The Children's Librarian has gone for lunch. You…are Alone! This is when I turn to the latest edition of "A to Zoo: Subject Access to Children's […]
Did you know that you don't have to wait for a copy of "The Official Driver's Handbook" to come in for you as a hold? The entire Handbook may be read online at Driver's Handbook Online. From this site, you can also link to… "The Official Motorcycle Handbook", "The Official Truck Handbook", "The Official Bus […]
I like think I was ahead of the E-book Downloading Curve. I remember the good old days when you could log into Download E-Books onthe Toronto Public Library website and easily check out a book without going through pages of items on hold. I started by using a tiny trusty MP3 player and it was […]
It's nice to know that other Canadian Libraries are having the same issues as we do here at TPL. At the IST Fall Conference, Gail Richardson of "Libraries Moving Forward", devised a study to analyze User Behaviour & Expectation of Reference Services at Hamilton Public Library. Over the last few years all statistics gathered in […]
Our library users often ask me, "Where are you travelling to next?" , since they know I'm always planning a future holiday. I get great travel and cruise ideas from the Web and here are a few of the sites I use most often : http://www.vacationstogo.com  , cruisecritic, tripadvisor and fodors.com From Vacations to Go, […]
Wouldn't I like to know! As I creep around Facebook as "Stalking Auntie", I find out that my niece has been accepted to U of T and loves the "Crazy Nasty*** Honey Badger". My friend's daughter has just ended an important relationship and all of them are posting tons of photos of themselves so all […]