The latest thing in the blogosphere is Librarian Trading Cards! If you haven’t made yours already you can sign up with Flickr (if you have a Yahoo! mail account you can sign in through your user/pass) and upload a photo of yourself. Then go to Flickr Toys and design your trading card and send it to the group.

You can check out mine here. I will be bringing my digital camera today if anyone wants their pic taken and I’m willing to help anyone who wants to make a card.

The New York Public Library is now offering RSS feeds for their patrons, including a feed which serves to notify patrons when they subscribe to new online databases!

Did you know that your subject guides or other web pages can include direct links to CLIO records? I learned this from Cathy Thomas while working on the religion subject guide, and apparently it’s already been used on Business and Music pages, but it doesn’t seem to be widely known.

There is a SWIFT link to a resource that will take the long session-dependent URL for a CLIO record, and strip off all the session-dependent code, leaving a direct link to to the record itself. So, if your subject guide includes print resources, you can have a link directly to the CLIO record for that title.

The direct URL to the resource is https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/staffweb/clio/ search_generator.html

You can also get there by clicking on CLIO on SWIFT (under DIGITAL), and then clicking on “Canned CLIO Search Generator” in the lower right quadrant of the page.

An example of how this has been used is here http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/ music/reserves/music_hum.html

I agree with Cathy that it makes sense to have the link read “Click here for CLIO record” rather than linking the actual title of the print resource, as the latter method might confuse people into thinking that the link would lead to an online resource.

Hope you find this as useful as I have!