Another day of sunshine and warmth, yesterday saw me arriving at my first local meeting/networking event. A joint SLA-GA/ALLA event, Bubbling Under: Hot New Sites for Librarians was a talk by John DiGilio about new websites of use and interest.
Most of you are probably familiar with John, also known as iBraryGuy (the site should be back to normal business starting next month).
John opened by telling his story to librarianship, and by extension a brief story of librarianship itself in the last couple of decades. He explained that we are, in his view, well past the information superhighway, the age of information and well in to now era of opportunity. Information is so 2001, nowadays we are after knowledge.
He proceeded to tell us about 10 websites he had selected and classified in to the categories of Research, Productivity and Personal Advancement. I have not yet had time to review the sites themselves, but I will going through them over the next few days (that’s right: sequel!). Some I am familiar with but now have a deeper understanding of their purpose and scope; others were brand new to me. His sites were:
Research
- Jig
- Blekko
- Quora
- Sharetivity
Productivity
- What That Page
- Google Hangouts
Personal Advancement
- Wattpad
- Mindbloom
- Skillshare
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