23+Things+ET-ES-CM

Academic Libraries - Reference and Instruction

1) Zotero: [] Open source citation tool.

2) wikispaces: [] Great way to make a wiki without it being hard.

3) meebo: [] Open source way to have an Ask a Librarian service.

4) libguides: [] A way to make online libguides that look nice and work well.

5) googledocs: [] Online collaboration tool.

6) Google Scholar: [] Great way to search all the literature at once.

7) ERIC: [|//www.eric.ed.gov///] All things education.

8) Bibliobouts: [] A great game for teaching info literacy

9) Twitter: [] Professional development in tiny drops.

10) Creative Commons: [] How to make things available to all and how to use things with this license.

11) OER Commons: [] Open resources for all!

12) w3schools: [] Good tutorials in any programming language!

13) jing: [] Quick and dirty screencasts.

14) Elluminate: [] Webinars so your patrons can learn in their pjs.

15) Jstor: [|www.jstor.org] All kinds of old articles

16) ProQuest: [|www.proquest.com] Good basic range of databases.

17) SCOPUS: [|www.scopus.com] Science databases.

18) EBSCO: [|www.ebsco.com] Another broad range of databases.

19) tumblr or wordpress (depending on confidence): [] [] Blogging for all! (Whatever your level)

20) Skype: [] Great for conference calls!

21) Slideshare: [] A nice way to see what colleagues are showing and share your own!

22) bit.ly: [] Make your urls tiny for use with Twitter or other blogging sites.

23) worldcat:[| http://worldcat.org] Find any book in the world and get it through ILL!