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	<title>Mutterings of an Archive Dust Monkey</title>
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		<title>Who needs a librarian?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Caught this video on The Googlization of Everything.  Aren&#8217;t librarians fab?!   
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		<title>Shhh&#8230;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simon Midgley&#8217;s article in today&#8217;s Guardian online caught my eye.  It talks in a really positive way about the way academic libraries are embracing new technologies to meet its students requirements and expectations.  It&#8217;s nice for librarians to get a bit of recognition for once!
I especially liked the idea of the &#8216;Shhh&#8230;!&#8217; bags [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com&blog=3404531&post=20&subd=archivedustmonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dust Monkey takes over the archives part 2&#8230;or how I learned to appreciate stats&#8230;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another measure I&#8217;ve taken to try and improve the company archives is to work on the statistics for the department.  This was undertaken so that I could identify (and prove) the heaviest users of the archives.  I used 3 criteria to determine the ranking:
Business importance (i.e. how important the documents are and how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com&blog=3404531&post=18&subd=archivedustmonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/dust-monkey-takes-over-the-archives-part-iior-how-i-learned-to-appreciate-stats/</link>
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		<title>Time Logging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I started my current job, I&#8217;ve been trying to think how I could improve the archivist&#8217;s role within the company.  As an example, I recently took part in another project (external to archives) and it was apparently commented by one manager that the archives must not be terribly busy if I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com&blog=3404531&post=16&subd=archivedustmonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love your Archivist!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article caught my eye today.  Random House have launched a new widget, powered by a web service called Insight, which will make the full works of about 500 authors accessible and searchable online.  They are also working on digitising their entire back catalogue.   
This is a great example of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com&blog=3404531&post=13&subd=archivedustmonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing your library via Web 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just come across this list on Ning.  It&#8217;s got some great ideas from CIL 2008 on how to use Web 2.0 to market your library.    
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		<link>http://archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/marketing-your-library-via-web-20/</link>
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		<title>TV Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the main features of Web 2.0 is its ability to create virtual communities, allowing us to link in with friends and people with similar interests from all over the world.  
Once upon a time, TV was also something that linked people &#8211; colleagues would chat about what happened in Eastenders the night [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com&blog=3404531&post=11&subd=archivedustmonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Earth &#8211; amazing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just read this  article about how Google Earth is now allowing you to see images of Refugee camps around the world, including Darfur, Iraq and Colombia.  
I think this is a fabulous tool for education, and for making these people and their plight &#8216;real&#8217; to us in the West.  As well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com&blog=3404531&post=10&subd=archivedustmonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jooce &#8211; Power to the People?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public Libraries have been attempting to address the problem of the &#8216;digital divide&#8217; for a few years now by offering free internet access to users.  However one could argue that there is still a divide between those who can afford to own PCs and those who can&#8217;t, as many of the features, for example [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com&blog=3404531&post=9&subd=archivedustmonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drupal in Libraries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a really interesting article yesterday on the Librarian In Black blog about a software called Drupal.  My attention was drawn to the Ann Arbor District Library which is using Drupal for its website &#8211; with great results &#8211; have a look for yourself!  Users can have their own accounts, leave comments, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com&blog=3404531&post=7&subd=archivedustmonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://archivedustmonkey.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/drupal-in-libraries/</link>
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