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April 9, 2007
Facebook Reference
The awesome Randy Reichardt at the University of Alberta Libraries is always quietly innovating. He blogged before anyone I knew was blogging in libraries. Some of the resources he's created for science librarianship (STLQ) have changed our practice, and now he's working on leading edge science in nanotechnology while still doing science reference for the university. Cool.
He even puts web innovation to good use in his personal blog and his MySpace site for his band. Always playing, always inventing. Quietly leading the way. He is smart to always start small with a few dozen students and then grow the service with them.
I wanted to share Randy's Engineering Facebook service point with you:
http://ualberta.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2244905594
I've been following this site for a few months and he has a great ongoing conversation with his users. You can tell he has a great understanding of and relationship with his users and students. Randy is giving great service on his Facebook site - putting himself out there were his users are.
Randy will be embarrassed by this post but he deserves library fame. I can't remember who owes whom in the embarrassment sweepstakes.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at April 9, 2007 11:20 PM
Comments
Thanks for calling this out, Stephen. We're very proud to have Randy here at the UofA.
Posted by: Pam Ryan at April 10, 2007 9:56 AM