Chi Lib Rocks! : Chicago Libraries Rock! This blog is a service of the Chicago Library System, for its member libraries and librarians. Please send comments, press releases, etc. to:
Teri Ross Embrey, Chicago Library System, ross@chilibsys.org. For a detailed discussion of topics and items mentioned in the blog, check out our online community, CLS Online.
This is my blogchalk: United States, Illinois, Chicago, downtown, English, Libraries, Books, Technology, Librarianship, Information Science.
Monday, February 24, 2003
My Chicago Library portal:
The UIC Residents will reveal the My Chicago Library portals that they designed as part of a Lighting the Fire grant tomorrow afternoon at 1 pm an open house here at CLS. For more details, contact Dan at CLS ( telfer@chilibsys.org ).
" I just got off the phone with Ray Matthews from the Utah State Library Division . You may recall that the USLD is doing wonderful things with RSS , especially in relation to their Government Information Locator Service (GILS) project . I am ecstatic to announce that Ray will be attending the 5th Annual State GILS Conference in April in nearby Lisle, IL, in order to speak about RSS! We both hope this will be an RSS wake-up call for libraries and government agencies and that it will help put ... [The Shifted Librarian]"
Thanks for the heads up, Jenny. I wonder how many libraries would like a news aggregator service for their patrons. Maybe this is something that can be integrated into the My Chicago Library portal.
