Monday, August 31, 2009

LibWorm

LibWorm seems to be a good place for librarians to search for profession-related information. Doing basic searches under “cataloging,” “technical services,” and “acquistions” will not only bring up articles on these subjects, but job postings for positions in these areas, as well. I was surprised to also see some hits in French, too—but it’s a big library world out there, after all. Many users may prefer using the subjects feature instead of the tags “cloud” that is shown, but that is to be expected somewhat, and it’s impressive to see so many tags that have been entered.

Entering the name of my library in the “exact phrase” search yielded 3 results; the first being a statement of praise from a keynote speaker at a recent event, the second seemingly unrelated and pertaining to a different library altogether, and the third reporting on a new young adults program we began a while back. That’s not bad, though, I suppose.

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