LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Web 2.0 interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:52:58 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://hhsmedia.blogspot.com/2010/09/im-lovin-it.html Have you noticed how many cool web-based tools there are lately? Here are some of my current Web 2.0 favorites... Polish your presentations and school projects by trying one of these sites today. Need help? Please see Ms. Younkers in the media center.Prezi- Create astonishing presentations live and on the web.Animoto- Turn your images and videos into professional-looking movie trailers. Edu.Glogster- Design digital posters in a snap! (Source: Huntingtown High School Library Media Center) Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 885472 http://hhsmedia.blogspot.com/2010/09/im-lovin-it.html Have you noticed how many cool web-based tools there are lately? Here are some of my current Web 2.0 favorites:Edu.Glogster- Design digital posters in a snap!Animoto- Turn your images and videos into professional-looking movie trailers.Prezi- Create astonishing presentations live and on the web.Polish your presentations and school projects by trying one of these sites today. Need help? Please see Ms. Younkers in the media center. (Source: Huntingtown High School Library Media Center) Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 870260 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/netbib/DFxV/~3/coftYtWQZU4/ Schmidt mit De Te weist auf die neuen Handreichungen der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) zu Web 2.0 (PDF-Datei samt Imagefilm) hin, eine PDF-Datei, die im Hochschulrahmen Futter für die Motivation der Hochschulkommunikation zu geben vermag, Web 2.0-Instrumenten einzusetzen. (Source: netbib weblog) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:07:42 +0100 895545 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/coftYtWQZU4/ Schmidt mit De Te weist auf die neuen Handreichungen der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) zu Web 2.0 (PDF-Datei samt Imagefilm) hin, eine PDF-Datei, die im Hochschulrahmen Futter für die Motivation der Hochschulkommunikation zu geben vermag, Web 2.0-Instrumenten einzusetzen. (Source: netbib weblog) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:07:42 +0100 895328 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/HuwdAkhczW4/ I’m updating some slides and prepping for spring classes today. I was pleased to find this wonderful staff directory page for the Todd Library at Waubonsee Community College: https://library.waubonsee.edu/staff/ Not only do I get a photo of the staff member, I also get access to their social media presence as well. Frankly, I’d like to see more libraries do this. Wouldn’t clicking through to a staff listing such as the one above paint a clearer picture of the PEOPLE running the library beyond just a name and email address? I understand if some individuals were not interested in participating, but I’d rather such a page be opt in for those who want to – with the understanding that their social media presence becomes part of the story the library is telling. Speaking of marketing, isn’t this type of  endeavor – that glimpse into the social presence of those folks who you might see behind a service desk or those ordering/processing materials – is a million times more real than the latest crafted message from the PR department? Kudos to the folks at Todd Library! TTW readers – do you have other staff bio pages to share like this one? Can you do such a thing at your library? (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:36:17 +0100 895253 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62930 New Media and the Courts: The Current Status and a Look at the Future (PDF) The Conference of Court Public Information Officers report on new media and the courts finds that more than one-third of state court judges and magistrates responding to a survey use social media profile sites like Facebook, while [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:59:00 +0100 895279 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2010/12/26/3842 Oliver OBST: 2. Zukunftskolloquium der Zweigbibliothek Medizin der Universität Münster, 28./29. Juni 2010 Zusammenfassung: 16 Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare aus vier Ländern nahmen am alle sechs Jahre stattfindende Zukunftskolloquium der Münsteraner Medizinbibliothek zu drängenden Fragen des Bibliothekswesens teil. Erwartungen und Wünsche wurden in einer Moderationsrunde priorisiert und dann systematisch diskutiert. Drei antizipierte Themen waren vorbereitet worden: „Strategie“ (präsentiert von Herrn Obst), „Studierende“ (präsentiert von Frau Schlosser) und „Web 2.0“ (präsentiert von Guus van den Brekel). Am zweiten Tag wurde durch Gruppenarbeiten zu einer typischen Studenten- bzw. Wissenschaftlerbibliothek der Fokus auf neue, in-novative Dienstleistungen gerichtet, da alte, traditionelle Dienstleistungen wie Erwerbung vielerorts erfolgreich an der Bibliothek vorbeilaufen und Bibliotheksmonopole ins Wanken geraten. Es wurde mit neuen Formeln experimentiert wie: „Bibliothek = Informationsspezialist für die Visite“ oder „Bibliothek = Scientific Publishing Support Agent“. Schlussendlich wurden konkrete und individuelle Handlungsanweisungen für die Praxis erstellt. Schlüsselwörter: Medizinbibliothek, Zukunft Ôliver OBST: Second “Future Colloquium” of the Münster Medical Library, June 28–29, 2010 Abstract: 16 librarians from four countries took part in the “Future Colloquium” of the Münster Medical Library on pressing issues of librarianship, which takes place every sixth year. Expectations and desires were priorized in a moderation round and then systematically discussed. Three topics were anticipated: “Strategy” (presented by Oliver Obst), “Students” (presented by Anna Schlosser) and “Web 2.0” (presented by Guus van den Brekel). ... Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:00:18 +0100 895374 http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2010/12/26/free_pinboard_accounts_for_librarians From now until January 1, Pinboard is offering free Pinboard accounts to librarians. Might be an alternative to consider since it was leaked that Delicious will be mothballed by Yahoo. (Source: e3 Information Overload, E-Resources for Engineering Education) Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895129 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/infoesfera/~3/H-PH661eMFA/hasta-cuanto-estoy-dispuesto-pagar.html No es difícil oirle a Jesús Tramullas frases del tipo: “los usuarios "desaforados" de la 2.0 deberían reflexionar sobre sus planteamientos estratégicos...”, que recientemente encontramos en Iwetel a raíz del debate sobre el anunciado cierre de Delicious. Tramullas nos ha regalado ya con varias frases de este tipo, estamos acostumbrados, pero fue tras una conversación con mi amigo Fernándo Juarez y sobre todo tras una frase suya (tweet) en una reciente conferencia virtual, cuando me pareció que debía reflexionar algo más sobre estos temas y si me atrevía, lo haría en alto. Metáfora pesquera de @ferjur: "Facebook es una gran red que está esquilmando el fondo marino"less than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®Enzo AbbagliaticadaunanteEn relación al cierre anunciado de delicious, que aún está por ver, creo que debemos plantearnos las siguientes cuestiones: Estamos en una época de cambios, o quizás mejor en un cambio de época. Un denominador común a todo esto que vivimos es el siempre Beta, ya lo argumentaron en el debate sobre delicious en Iwetel y se nos olvida con bastante frecuencia. Permanente beta significa adaptación continua, flexibilidad, perderle el cariño a lo seguro por definición.No es el primer producto que, de confirmarse su desaparición, nos obliga a una migración:  yo soy usuaria de Microsoft Money desde hace más de 13 años, y en enero de 2011 deja de mantenerse, o tuve que hacer la migración a Innopac/Millennium cuando Dobis Libis, nuestro SIGB dejó también de actualizarse a comienzos de este siglo. Además, la biblioteca invierte sus recursos en proyectos que no siempre salen, muchas veces porque dependen de terceros,  pero el riesgo hay que correrlo, la seguridad del éxito no la garantiza nadie. ... Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:44:00 +0100 894849 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62878 Top Picks for Apps to Help You While Away the Minutes If idle hands are the devil’s plaything, Satan must hate smartphones. Androids, BlackBerrys and iPhones have so many good apps that their owners can fill the tiniest gap of free time with a productive, whimsical or useless activity. Neuroscientists [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:23:00 +0100 894836 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2010/12/24/3838 Bruno BAUER, Daniel FORMANEK und MARIAN MIEHL: Virtuelle Lehrbuchsammlung und eBooks on Demand als Facetten der Hybridbibliothek: zwei innovative Services der Universitätsbibliothek der Medizinischen Universität Wien Zusammenfassung: Die Universitätsbibliothek der Medizinischen Universität Wien verfügt als Hybridbibliothek über große Bestände an gedruckter bzw. digitaler Literatur. Um den Zugriff zu dieser Information zu verbessern, wurden in jüngster Zeit zwei Projekte entwickelt und realisiert. Für die Studierenden wurde das Informationsportal Van Swieten Student 2.0 als virtuelle Lehrbuchsammlung konzipiert, das neben dem Nachweis von gedruckten und elektronischen Lehrbüchern weitere für das Medizinstudium relevante Informationsquellen offeriert und auch Web 2.0-Applikationen integriert. Die Zettelkataloge, bisher einziges Nachweisinstrument für die wertvollen medizinhistorischen Bestände, wurden digitalisiert, OCR-gelesen und als webfähiger OPAC mit Web 2.0-Funktionen erweitert. Auf Basis dieses Katalogs können urheberrechtsfreie Werke über das innovative Service eBooks on Demand (eod) in digitaler Form bzw. als Reprint angefordert werden. Schlüsselwörter: Medizinische Universität Wien, Universitätsbibliothek, Virtuelle Lehrbuchsammlung, Van Swieten Student 2.0, WordPress, Scriblio, eBooks on Demand (eod), Zettelkatalog, Digitalisierung, Hybridbibliothek, Web 2.0. Bruno BAUER, Daniel FORMANEK and MARIAN MIEHL: Virtual textbook collection and eBooks on Demand as facets of the hybrid library: two innovative services of the university library of the Medical University Vienna Abstract: The university library of the Medical University of Vienna is a hybrid library and offers a huge stock of literature in print and online. Two projects were realised to improve access to this collection. The library built a catalogue for their students, which includes all relevant resources for their courses. ... Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:00:00 +0100 895376 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/HfcHbjRvEbo/ As we keep witnessing how the iPad is entering a whole bunch of new markets for tablets that perhaps never thought they would be making it that far, while being taken by storm by the iPad itself like they are at the moment, here I am, once again, ready to go and share with you folks the next blog post from the series of My Top 5 iPad Apps of the Week, this time around with Week #9. First though I would want to share with you folks a couple of rather helpful articles you may want to check out, specially, if you are a librarian or perhaps an English language teacher. They are just basically a couple of articles with plenty of helpful tips and recommendations on Apps to check out, specially for those two groups, which I am sure is going to keep you all busy for a while. To name: “40 iPad Apps That Librarians Love” and “iPad Apps for English Language Teachers“, respectively. ... Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:17:23 +0100 895533 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62876 Politics Goes Mobile More than a quarter of American adults – 26% – used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 mid-term election campaign.   In a post-election nationwide survey of adults, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found that 82% of adults have [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:36:00 +0100 894766 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16296 Web Services & Emerging Technologies Librarian (Albion College, Michigan) Web Services & Emerging Technologies Librarian at Albion College.  User-friendly, highly skilled professional to provide leadership and share responsibility for planning, implementing, and maintaining the Library website and other digital systems and services for information retrieval.  Overall responsibility for the installation, maintenance, and enhancement of the library’s integrated library system which functions as a shared system with the Albion District Library. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:10:02 +0100 894617 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2010/12/23/3836 Eike HENTSCHEL und Anja KAISER: alles – einfach – sofort: Service in Medizinbibliotheken: Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen (AGMB) e.V. vom 27. bis 29.9.2010 in Mainz Zusammenfassung: Vom 27.–29.9.2010 fand an der Universität Mainz die Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen (AGMB e.V.) statt. Auf der zentralen Fortbildungsveranstaltung für das medizinische Bibliothekswesen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz konnten sich die Teilnehmer unter anderem über folgende Themen informieren: Zunehmende Digitalisierung der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation und deren Auswirkungen, innovative Services in Hybridbibliotheken (Virtuelle Lehrbuchsammlung und E-Books On-Demand), Ausbildung (Weiterbildungs-Masterstudiengang Informations- und Wissensmanagement in Hannover), Neubau der Fachbibliothek Medizin O.A.S.E. an der Universität Düsseldorf, Qualitätsmanagement nach ISO 9001, subito (neue Dienste auf der Basis von § 52a+b UrhG), Zukunft der Nationallizenzen und Allianz-Initiative der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen, Informationskompetenz am Beispiel von Blended-Learning, Public Relation sowie neue Kommunikations- und Servicestrategien, Zukunftskonzepte für Medizinbibliotheken, Dienstleistungen der Bibliothek an einem Forschungsinstitut in Großbritannien, Literaturverwaltung, Web 2.0 und andere Emerging Technologies, BibNet.org, Cochrane Library, MedPilot, PubMed. In einer begleitenden Firmenausstellung präsentierten alle für medizinische Bibliotheken wichtigen Verlage und Dienstleister neue Produkte und Services. Schlüsselwörter: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen (AGMB e.V.), Jahrestagung 2010 in Mainz, Fortbildung Eike HENTSCHEL & Anja KAISER: all – simply – immediately: service in medical libraries: Annual Meeting 2010 of “Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen” (AGMB e.V. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:00:48 +0100 895377 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62824 U.S. Top 10s and Trends for 2010 The Nielsen Company released a list of the most popular media and consumer spending trends in the U.S. for 2010, covering everything from the most popular television shows, to the most liked commercials, book sales, purchasing trends, top mobile apps and more. + [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:19:00 +0100 894529 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/deakialli/com/~3/sbpDBP8nrMs/ Aunque lo parezca a veces, este blog no ha muerto de desidia, sino que me encuentro en unos meses de mucha carga de trabajo, y un trabajo además que me está aportando muchas satisfaciones: gran parte de mi jornada laboral y extralaboral, la dedico a configurar la colección documental de una nueva biblioteca que se abrirá en la ciudad en breve. ¿Os imaginais la responsabilidad y el regozijo que supone formar parte de un grupo de trabajo de selección de material, de diversa naturaleza, para una nueva biblioteca??? Llevamos meses de buceo de colecciiones básicas, listas de imprescindibles, de clásicos, de elementales, de “1000 libros que hay que leer antes de morir”, etc, etc. Por eso, por responsabilidad y porque creo ferviertemente en dos de las máximas de la Web 2.0, “inteligencia colectiva” y “participación ciudadana”, os pido vuestra colaboración para que no se nos escape nada indispensable, para que en la nueva biblioteca contemos con fondos para todos los perfiles,  para todas las inquietudes, para todas las necesidades. ¿Nos ayudais a mejorar nuestra selección? ¿nos ayudais a no olvidarnos de nada? ¿nos descubris películas, documentales, novelas, poesía, teatro, ensayo, monografías temáticas, música, etc, que te gustaría encontrar en tu biblioteca ideal? Pongamos en práctica la Web Social, aunemos fuerzas y mis compañeros y yo nos aprovecharemos vilmente de todo el saber colectivo que inunda en estos mares cibernéticos. (Source: Deakialli DocuMental) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:02:40 +0100 894457 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/22/google-datawiki/ Google legt momentan ein flottes Tempo vor. Über den nGram Viewer wurde inzwischen anderswo so viel geschrieben, das spare ich mir erstmal. Auf Shared Spaces wurde hier noch gar nicht eingegangen. Aber DataWiki kann man hier nicht unerwähnt lassen. Es handelt sich hierbei um ein Wiki für strukturierte Daten. In eigenen Worten With DataWiki it should be easy to: * create and edit structured data * create simple mashup applications in a few minutes * define formats in terms of others, e.g. Missing Person reports = vCard (who) + GeoRSS (last seen) + string (current status note) * share information with other systems via built-in federation * enable easy input/output from a variety of endpoints, e.g. via Twitter, ODK or SMS from a remote location Es gibt ein Gästebuch, an dem man ein wenig probieren kann. Einträge erstellen und suchen (z.B. nach Hans Dampf) kann man auch hier: Finden Erstellen Name: Comment: Gender: Country: Homepage: Name: Comment: Gender: Country: Homepage: Eine kleine Dokumentation gibt es auch, ebenso die Möglichkeit, DataWiki (Open Source) selbst zu installieren. Man kann seine Daten also in der Cloud lagern, muss aber nicht. Wer sehen möchte, was in Googles Laboren noch alles entwickelt wurde und wird, sollte sich diesen kurzen Überblick ansehen. (Source: Infobib) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:28:57 +0100 894697 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/12/22/why-teachers-should-be-person-of-the-year/ Time Magazine recently announced that Mark Zuckerberg was selected as their “Person of the Year.”    It seems a rather peculiar choice, since not only is Facebook “old hat”  but also because Facebook has not been the best player in regards to user privacy. So I have my own end of the year suggestion for Time Magazine–how about making teachers the “Person of the Year”? Yes, teachers.   After 29 years in education, both as a teacher and librarian, I”ve known a great number of educators.  And what I’ve seen demonstrated again and again by so many of my colleagues is how much, despite all the recent hype to the contrary, they care about children. So instead of this being the year of software mega-giant or of the likes of Michelle Rhee or Davis Guggenheim,  or the year of union busting in education–perhaps this should be the year we begin simply to honor and celebrate teachers. Teaching is a complex job.  There’s the subject matter, which is complex in and of itself;  there are the students, who are complex in all the ways every human being is, and there’s the place in between where you figure out how to bring the two together for real understanding and growth.  And again, despite claims to the contrary about experienced teachers, you could spend a lifetime as an educator honing your skills and still not master any one of these areas, no matter how dedicated you are. Being a teacher means reinventing yourself daily and annually to meet the needs of the students in front of you, whether it’s figuring out a way to reach a particular student or learning the latest ways to connect your students to a global learning environment. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:22:18 +0100 895046 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62812 The Untethered Executive:Business Information in the Age of Mobility Much has been written about how smartphones and other mobile devices are changing the way people communicate. But little has been done to understand what the impact of this shift is on the executive suite. Are executives willing to use their smartphones for [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:13:00 +0100 894424 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/12/project-information-literacys-autumn.html A couple of months ago Project Information Literacy published another report on US students' information behaviour. This included findings from 8,353 respondents from students on 25 campuses in the USA. "Respondents reported taking little at face value and were frequent evaluators of Web and library sources used for course work, and to a lesser extent, of Web content for personal use. Most respondents turned to friends and family when asking for help with evaluating information for personal use and instructors when evaluating information for course research. Respondents reported using a repertoire of research techniques—mostly for writing papers—for completing one research assignment to the next, though few respondents reported using Web 2.0 applications for collaborating on assignments. Even though most respondents considered themselves adept at finding and evaluating information, especially when it was retrieved from the Web, students reported difficulties getting started with research assignments and determining the nature and scope of what was required of them. Overall, the findings suggest students use an information-seeking and research strategy driven by efficiency and predictability for managing and controlling all of the information available to them on college campuses, though conducting comprehensive research and learning something new is important to most, along with passing the course and the grade received."http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2010_Survey_FullReport1.pdfPhoto by Sheila Webber: Rowan tree, December 2010 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894531 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/SW12BPQvIpM/the_year_in_writing_2010.php This has become something of a tradition at Searchblog (well, OK, it's the second time in three years), in which I review the year in posts and note those of which I am particularly proud. For me it's a way to remember what I've been on about, and catalog some of my sketches for further work (perhaps as a book, ahem). So in chronological order, here are the posts I liked from these past 12 months, with some commentary as well: January Predictions 2010 I'll be getting to this in a post later this week. Search Getting Worse? What Did I Mean?! I wrote a series on this. This is a summary. Google's Tortured History With China In which the eventual unraveling of Google's business in China began. The Evolving Search Interface: Mobile Drives Search As App Or why mobile is a major threat to Google, and why Google responded with Android. Why The Apple iPad Will Disappoint (The Obama Effect) I was wrong about the iPad being a dud, but not wrong about it disappointing me. It pretty much made everyone else happy, but I don't like it mainly for the politics of it. And it did disappoint nearly everyone when it was announced, but then became a major hit. As to why I was unhappy: The Tuesday Signal: Birth of Another Orifice Google Rolling Out Social Search: But Does It Leverage Facebook?  Glimmerings of what has become a full out data sharing war between the rivals. February Thursday Signal: Are You Checked In? I realize, in this post, that checking in is a new field in the Database of Intentions. Updated: Google to Air "Search Stories" Ad During Super Bowl... My big scoop of the year. Sigh, I guess Searchblog isn't much of a news outlet, is it?! The Thursday Signal: Is Google Losing Its Customer Focus? In which I determine it is, based on Buzz. I Don't Like The iPad Because... I guess I had to keep hammering on this. This is about how the iPad is loved by all traditional media because of its locked distribution model. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894485 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62798 Apple Removes WikiLeaks App From App Store Looks like an unofficial iPhone and iPad app that let you view WikiLeaks site content and follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account on the go has been removed from the App app store earlier today. The app used to be available here (here’s the Google cache ). [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:40:00 +0100 894305 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/20/wer-traut-der-cloud/ Gartner hat Cloud Computing zu einer der Strategic Technologies for 2011 erklärt. In Wikipedia ist Cloud Computing folgendermaßen zusammengefasst: Ein Teil der IT-Landschaft (in diesem Zusammenhang etwa Hardware wie Rechenzentrum, Datenspeicher sowie Software wie Mail- oder Kollaborationssoftware, Entwicklungsumgebungen, aber auch Spezialsoftware wie Customer-Relationship-Management (CRM) oder Business-Intelligence (BI)) wird durch den Anwender nicht mehr selbst betrieben oder bereitgestellt, sondern von einem oder mehreren Anbietern als Dienst gemietet. Die Anwendungen und Daten befinden sich dann nicht mehr auf dem lokalen Rechner oder im Firmenrechenzentrum, sondern in der (metaphorischen) Wolke (engl. „cloud“). Das Bild der Wolke wird in Netzwerkdiagrammen häufig zur Darstellung eines nicht näher spezifizierten Teils des Internet verwendet. Es geht als darum, Ressourcen zu sparen. Klingt attraktiv, doch kann man der Cloud wirklich trauen? Zwei Fälle in der jüngsten Vergangenheit sollten mindestens misstrauisch machen. Yahoo vs. Delicious.com Yahoo will Delicious verkaufen. Zumindest nicht mehr schließen, wie es kurze Zeit hieß. Auch wenn sich die erste Aufregung schon wieder ein wenig gelegt hat, steht fest, dass Delicious und ähnliche, in der Cloud gelagerten Dienste nicht Teil einer kritischen Infrastruktur sein dürfen. Wenn die Linksammlung einer Bibliothek kurze Zeit ausfällt, bis sie zu einem anderen Dienst übertragen ist, wäre das nur ärgerlich. Es sind jedoch auch Szenarien denkbar, in denen ein Dienst wie Delicious eine für den Fortgang einer Bibliothek oder eines Forschungsprojekts wesentlichere Funktion einnimmt. Wikileaks vs. Amazon Man mag von den Cablegate-Veröffentlichungen halten, was man will. Fakt ist, dass bislang niemand für die Veröffentlichung der Depeschen verklagt oder gar verurteilt wurde. Dennoch hat sich Amazon, wo Wikileaks bislang in der EC2-Cloud gehostet wurde, dazu entschieden, Wikileaks auszusperren. ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:10:30 +0100 894700 http://www.outilsfroids.net/news/iceberg-intelligence-economique-n-18-du-11-11-2010-au-20-12-2010-12-elements RessourcesIntelligenceEconomique - RessourcesRenseignement - IcebergIntelligenceEconomique Poutine incite à l'espionnage économique Via @Spyworld_Actu Approcher la concurrence : la stratégie indirecte Par Jacques Breillat le Web 2.0 autorise aussi des types de contacts beaucoup plus « allusifs », plus « déguisés » ou carrément « anonymes » reposant sur la technique du « faux nez » ou du « cheval de Troie » Le contact « sous couverture » Le contact « sous légende » Le contact « sous prétexte » (Source: Outils Froids) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:10:48 +0100 893984 http://documentacion.lacoctelera.net/post/2010/12/19/curso-fuentes-informacion-electronicas Tenía pendiente colgar por aquí la presentación de un curso sobre fuentes de información que dí hace poco en el Experto en Metodología de la Investigación y Análisis Prospectivo, organizado por la Universidad de Granada y el MADOC, sobre fuentes de información electrónica. En el módulo, además de bases de datos académicas y profesionales, prestamos especial atención a las posibilidades de la web 2.0, alertas rss, twitter, redes sociales... Dado el tipo de usuarios al que se dirigía (analistas de inteligencia) fue curioso comprobar cómo esta parte les resultó de lo más interesante, y bastante desconocida. En el último tema también se trataron asuntos de vigilancia tecnológica (que me perdonen los especialistas), y algún software para hacer análisis de redes y para extraer conocimiento a partir de las bases de datos de producción científica y de patentes. Ahí va. Introduccion al uso y gestion de recursos de información electronicos View more presentations from Alvaro Cabezas. ---------------- Cabezas Clavijo, Álvaro. Introducción al uso y gestión de recursos de información electrónicos. Mando de Adiestramiento y Doctrina. Ministerio de Defensa. Universidad de Granada. Granada, Noviembre 2010 (Source: Documentación, biblioteconomía e información) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894840 http://ec3noticias.blogspot.com/2010/12/incrustados-e-integrados-en-la.html Ayer publicamos, a través de Iwetel como siempre, una de las primeras notas Thinkepi que nos tocaba titulada "Incrustados e Integrados en la Investigación: la Perspectiva de los “Embedded Librarians". La reproducimos a continuación:1. IntroducciónLas bibliotecas universitarias entendidas en el sentido tradicional de un espacio físico bien delimitado e identificado que acoge y centraliza los diversos servicios que se ofrecen a la comunidad investigadora han sido víctimas de una enorme pérdida de protagonismo en la última década. Si hablamos de investigación y dejamos al margen el gran segmento de los alumnos podemos decir que el investigador se ha independizado del bibliotecario, al menos físicamente. Las causas de todo esto son evidentes y conocidas: el consumo en exclusividad de información electrónica por parte de los investigadores, la facilida d para acceder a ella y el contar con usuarios cada vez más avezados los ha alejado de nuestro lecho. Una de las primeras consecuencias que ha traído consigo este nuevo escenario es la pérdida de contacto directo con los investigadores lo que ha provocado un aislamiento cada vez más mayor que, finalmente, ha acabado desembocando en un menor conocimiento de sus necesidades. Comenzados por tanto esta nueva década en un momento interesante en el que tal vez tengamos que repensar cuáles son nuestras funciones y como debemos orientar los servicios de las bibliotecas destinadas a la investigación.Recientemente y en el contexto que hemos descrito en diversas bibliotecas universitarias he ido impartiendo una serie de charlas sobre las posibles nuevas tareas y roles que podían ir asumiendo los bibliotecarios para la puesta en marcha de nuevos servicios de asesoramiento y apoyo en la investigación. ... Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894832 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/18/yahoo-zum-delicious-verkauf/ Yahoo hat sich jetzt selbst zur drohenden Schließung von Delicious geäußert. Im Blog heißt es: No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive. Das klingt schon wesentlich optimistischer. Kandidaten werden zur Zeit noch und nöcher diskutiert. Sogar die LoC war im Gespräch: The Library of Congress should have bought it, similar to the way it has now archived every Tweet ever tweeted. So much value. So unappreciated. So tragically lost. Where will we all gather next, where our bookmarks can be centralized for maximum network effect? Perhaps this story demonstrates that’s not the right question to ask. Wobei es dann vermutlich schwierig wird, seine Wikileaks-Linksammlung über Delicious zu organisieren. (Source: Infobib) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:54:14 +0100 894701 http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/blogsights-web-20-reflections.html From Joeper - The Web 2.0 It’s always very exciting to learn new things.  The good things about free seminar workshop are that you are learning new things at no cost. I love to accept such invitations. I believe in my life motto “opportunity knocks only once”, grab it while it’s hot. Media is everywhere and doesn’t sleep, many scientist and innovators continue researching for new things and (Source: School Librarian in Action) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893689 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/do-we-really-need-web-20-in-subject.html This is a follow-up to the Library Boy post of December 16, 2010 entitled Death of Delicious Social Bookmarking Site? In that post, I mentioned that many libraries have turned to social media tools to develop lists of recommended resources and create research guides.The most recent issue of the journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice features the article Letting Students Take the Lead: A User-Centred Approach to Evaluating Subject Guides authored by a number of University of British Columbia librarians:"What do students need and want from library subject guides? Options such as Web 2.0 enhancement are now available to librarians creating subject-specific web pages. Librarians may be eager to implement these new tools, but are such add-ons a priority for students? This paper aims to start a dialogue on this issue by presenting the findings of the University of British Columbia (UBC) Library’s Subject Guides Working Group (SGWG), which was tasked with assessing current library subject guides in order to make recommendations for the update and future development of UBC Library subject guides (...)""Respondents to the student questionnaire indicated that a simple and clean layout was of primary importance. Students also desired succinct annotations to resources and limited page scrolling. Meanwhile, few students identified Web 2.0 features such as rating systems and discussion forums as being important for their needs (...)""For the SGWG these findings called into question the necessity of Web 2.0 technologies within subject guide pages and highlighted the need for further research on the topic of subject guide usability and effectiveness." (Source: Library Boy) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893675 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/LysV6_iCbCc/4458 Some of you have probably heard that Delicious is possibly going to be turned off by Yahoo!. One of my favorite mashups examples is using Delicious to create ‘link rolls.’ In fact link rolls power the links page on both my Library Mashups and Practical Open Source Software book sites. So the question now is what the heck do I do? Well, first I’m all for petitioning Yahoo! to open source Delicious so that it can not online live on, but probably get more development attention than Yahoo! ever gave it. If you like this idea you can try to get that to happen by participating in this petition (click the flame to the right or this link). Next, I recommend that you backup your links now and regularly while we wait to see what is going to happen to Delicious. Finally, some colleagues have already switched to Diigo, a tool that I tried a while ago but ended up leaving to return to Delicious. It looks like I’ll be giving it another shot now that it might be my only option. For this post I did a search on Diigo to see if I could use it for my mashups still and have found that I can. Diigo offers linkrolls just like Delicious did. I haven’t tested them at all, but this is promising to say the least. [update] There is a blog post out there saying that Delicious will move on and not close, but I can’t get it to load, so I haven’t read it yet. [/update] Related posts:Yahoo! Pipes Giving Twitter another shot Spam Karma – Solved (Source: What I Learned Today...) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:30:22 +0100 894488 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/17/delicious-com-soll-geschlossen-werden/ Techcrunch berichtet, dass Yahoo den beliebten Social-Bookmarking-Dienst Delicious.com schließen wird. Ein Verkauf oder die Veröffentlichung des Quelltextes scheint für Yahoo bislang keine Alternative zu sein. Wahrscheinlich wird die Delicious-Startseite daher bald ähnlich aussehen wie Geocities. Auch dies ein florierendes Projekt, dass von Yahoo gekauft, vergessen und schließlich geschlossen wurde. Da zahlreiche Bibliotheken und Bibliothekswesen Delicious einsetzen, wird nun die Suche nach Alternativen beginnen. Einfach wird das nicht. Delicious hat verschiedene Features, die die Nutzung in verschiedenen Kontexten sehr komfortabel machen. Zum Beispiel für eine Materialsammlung zum Heidelberger Appell, die Quicklinks des FZ Jülich oder die virtuellen Bibliotheken der Bibliothek der FH Hannover. Kurze, hoffentlich nützliche Linksammlung: Spabba.com Der eigene Browser Etwas ältere Liste mit Social-Bookmarking-Tools Ach ja: Es ist sicherlich empfehlenswert, die bestehende Delicious-Sammlung zu exportieren. Welche Lektion kann man daraus ziehen? Ist die Cloud tot, bevor sie sich überhaupt richtig durchgesetzt hat? Für Bibliotheken sollte auf jeden Fall klar sein, dass man keinen Dienst einsetzen sollte, der keinen kompletten Datenexport erlaubt. Die in Delicious gespeicherten Bookmarks lassen sich sichern. Das persönliche Netzwerk ist dennoch weg, die Einbindung des Dienstes in Webseiten muss auch ersetzt werden. Idealerweise sollte daher auch stets eine Open-Source-Alternative bereit stehen, um den Dienst zur Not selbst anbieten zu können. Eine weitere Lektion ist, dass man sich speziell auf Yahoo nicht verlassen sollte. Der Fall Geocities hätte eigentlich Warnung genug sein müssen. Nun Delicious, morgen vielleicht Yahoo Pipes oder Flickr? (Source: Infobib) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:01:49 +0100 893460 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/IPJJyyn4WYs/johnt Social Software, Community, and Organization: Where Practice Meets Process « Skilful Minds http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2341423499/enterprise-2-0-is-not-just-goal-oriented-collaboration Rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday - McKinsey Quarterly - Organization - Strategic Organization Social Learning and Exception Handling « Skilful Minds http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2341850344/training-for-solved-solutions-vs-collaboration-for Launch of the Enterprise Social Network Strategy report: what senior executives REALLY think about social networks inside the organization - Trends in the Living Networks http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342115281/hive-around-problems-or-hierarchy-or-both Thinking about processes as “science” and “art” « John Caddell's blog http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342269147/using-narrative-to-qualify-adaptive-case-management HBR article demonstrates that leaders need to manage complexity « John Caddell's blog When Should a Process Be Art, Not Science? - Harvard Business Review http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342471394/best-practice-may-neglect-adapting-to-real-needs PEG · People don’t like change. (Or do they?) http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342954608/what-gets-measured-determines-what-gets-done How Customer-Centricity Drives Profits | CustomerThink How to Find Answers Within Your Company - The Magazine - MIT Sloan Management Review http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2345893789/cop-success-story conversation matters: A Knowledge Management Conference that Actually Used KM Principles (Source: Library clips) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:00:00 +0100 893993 http://northmetrotechlibraryatacworth.blogspot.com/2010/12/moving-links.html Delicious was one of the first Web 2.0 tools I latched onto. I loved how I could quickly and easily save and tag web sites for access from any computer. It became my favorite Favorites listing! Unfortunately, Delicious seems to be going away. The first announcement that registered in my brain was via ALA's Facebook. I've now exported both sets of my Delicious bookmarks.The LM_NET list serve is a wealth of hints and tips. Someone on the list suggested this blog which has very clear directions on how to export the Delicious file. The blogger suggests several options for a 'new' portable Favorites. Over the break I'll be exploring my options!-klsView from the Library maintained by The Librarian at Chattahoochee Technical College, North Metro Campus c2010 (Source: View from the library) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893486 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/12/28-delicious-alternatives-to-delicious.html Well, we've all seen the news that the single most insane idea of the year award can go to Yahoo who are apparently going to be closing Delicious. Quite why they're not prepared to ask people to pay for access, or even to offer it to someone like the Library of Congress to take over defeats me, but clearly straightforward thinking isn't their forte else they wouldn't be taking this stupid step in the first place. So, if you want to choose a different bookmarking resource, what options are available to you? The good news is that there's quite a lot. A1 Webmarks. I don't personally like the look and feel of this service, but that might just be me. Bibsonomy does what you'd expect from a social bookmarking service. It has an RSS option, tagging, share bookmarks and see what others have saved. Blinklist is nice looking, but you can't import stuff, so is of limited value to refugees. Bookmarks2 is a 'simple and not social bookmarking service' according to the site. Save a link with a mouse click, access from any computer, register for free, tag bookmarks, but it doesn't look like you can share what you've found. Brainify is academic social bookmarking and networking for college and university students. The emphasis is on academia, so is probably of little use for many of us, but if you're in that area, take a quick look. Buddymarks stores your bookmarks online, imports current bookmarks, easily add new ones, share them, use tags and categories. Connotea has been around for a very long time now and is designed for the academic community. I'd be inclined to use this over Brainify if I was an academic. Diigo If you're going to be going anywhere, it's probably here. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893388 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62691 Update: Confirmed: It's All Over For Delicious, Yahoo Will Shutdown Service UPDATED POST HERE When the history of Web 2.0 is written it's very likely that it will include a chapter about delicious, the social bookmarking service that at one time was extremely popular. Even today, we regularly see Delicious mentioned (at [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:40:46 +0100 893273 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/death-of-delicious-social-bookmarking.html Delicious, the popular social bookmarking service owned by Yahoo! that allows users to store, annotate and share bookmarks, may be shutting down, according to various web sources.ResourceShelf is not so sure.Many libraries have been turning to web 2.0 tools such as Delicious:MIT Updates Virtual Reference Pages Using Social Bookmarking (July 9, 2007): "The library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is using the social bookmarking site del.icio.us to keep its virtual reference web pages up to date (...) What is interesting is that MIT uses an RSS feed to send the links from the del.icio.us account to its virtual reference collection, making maintenance a much easier task."Use of Social Tagging in Libraries Spreading (September 17, 2007): "The article Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us in the online version of Library Journal describes how more and more libraries are turning to social bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us to organize information about recommended resources and replace the traditional subject guide."More News From Federal Library Web 2.0 Interest Group (September 16, 2008): "In the summer, federal government librarians in Canada created a Web 2.0 Interest Group (WIG) to explore ways of incorporating collaborative technologies into their work (...) It was a great opportunity to see what work has been done on the Web 2.0 front. Here are a few of the projects mentioned at the roundtable that opened the meeting: ... The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information has launched a CISTI Facebook group, a wiki for posting known problems about its online services, and has created dozens of subject guides using delicious.com social bookmarks ... The Communications Security Establishment, Canada's electronic intelligence agency, uses wikis, mashups and social bookmarking ... Natural Resources Canada uses screencasting, wikis, blogs, and delicious. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893286 http://www.lisnews.org/ten_stories_shaped_2010 It's time again to take a look at the memorable headlines of the year. 10. YouTube Sensations Although viral videos are nothing new, libraries found themselves involved in a few catchy clips this year, and even got Old Spice guy involved in their cause. 9. Libraries and DVDs and Netflix, Oh My Libraries check out a lot of movies, in case you haven't heard. A library touting their use of Netflix, however, ran afoul of many due to the admitted violation of Netflix's terms of use. 8. Piracy Crackdown Many Chicken Little essays cropped up over the seizure of domains by Homeland Security, questioning the due process involved and decrying the potential for censorship that the new law affords. 7. Under New Management The corporate takeover of public libraries and the commercialization of academic libraries should have us all thinking about our workplace of the future. 6. Gizmo of the Year: iPad Since its spring release, Apple's life-changing tablet has been put to use by many libraries. How is your library using iPads? 5. I For One Welcome Our New Media Overlords My how times have changed. Gone are the days of video stores and print magazines, right? 4. Web 2.0 Fatigue Oops, I forgot, it's called "emerging technologies" now. With all the information overload surrounding social media and who knows what else that's on the horizon, many of us may feel sympathetic with this take on the next big thing. 3. Sign of the Times: Libraries = Offices for Unemployed Hardly a news flash, but as library budgets continue to spiral while others question the need for libraries at all, library use during the recession has filled a need for those seeking employment. 2. Google eBookstore Opens The advertising company that organizes so much of the world's information is, gasp, actually going to try and make money by selling it. The Google eBookstore launched this month. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:26:03 +0100 893515 http://lisnews.org/ten_stories_shaped_2010 It's time again to take a look at the memorable headlines of the year. 10. YouTube Sensations Although viral videos are nothing new, libraries found themselves involved in a few catchy clips this year, and even got Old Spice guy involved in their cause. 9. Libraries and DVDs and Netflix, Oh My Libraries check out a lot of movies, in case you haven't heard. A library touting their use of Netflix, however, ran afoul of many due to the admitted violation of Netflix's terms of use. 8. Piracy Crackdown Many Chicken Little essays cropped up over the seizure of domains by Homeland Security, questioning the due process involved and decrying the potential for censorship that the new law affords. 7. Under New Management The corporate takeover of public libraries and the commercialization of academic libraries should have us all thinking about our workplace of the future. 6. Gizmo of the Year: iPad Since its spring release, Apple's life-changing tablet has been put to use by many libraries. How is your library using iPads? 5. I For One Welcome Our New Media Overlords My how times have changed. Gone are the days of video stores and print magazines, right? 4. Web 2.0 Fatigue Oops, I forgot, it's called "emerging technologies" now. With all the information overload surrounding social media and who knows what else that's on the horizon, many of us may feel sympathetic with this take on the next big thing. 3. Sign of the Times: Libraries = Offices for Unemployed Hardly a news flash, but as library budgets continue to spiral while others question the need for libraries at all, library use during the recession has filled a need for those seeking employment. 2. Google eBookstore Opens The advertising company that organizes so much of the world's information is, gasp, actually going to try and make money by selling it. The Google eBookstore launched this month. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:26:03 +0100 892952 http://litablog.org/2010/12/call-for-bloggers-midwinter-2011-schedule/ Do you plan to attend ALA Midwinter in San Diego? Take this opportunity to become a LITA Blogger. The LITA Blog (http://litablog.org) will again be on hand to report what is happening and share the terrific Midwinter experience with those who cannot attend this year. If you like to write and are looking for new ways to get involved (or have blogged in the past and would like to blog again), please email me at thebrewinlibrarian@gmail.com and let me know what sessions you would like to cover. The blog schedule for Midwinter is below and will be updated as we receive volunteers. Names of bloggers appear in bold next to session. If there is no name after a session title, please feel free to sign up for it! We will be taking volunteers up to and during the conference. Thank you very much in advance! Matt Hamilton, LITA Web Coordinating Committee FRIDAY, JANUARY 7 Creating Library Web Services: Mashups and APIs 9:00 am- 4:30 pm SDCC-Room 24 A del.icio.us subject guides, Flickr library displays, YouTube library orientation; with mashups and APIs, it’s easier to bring pieces of the web together with library data. Learn what an API is and what it does, the components of web services, how to build a mashup, how to work with PHP, and how to create web services for your library. Participants should be comfortable with HTML markup and have an interest in learning about web scripting and programming and are encouraged to bring a laptop for hands-on participation. Open Source CMS Playroom 9:00 am- 4:30 pm SDCC-Room 24 B Open source content management systems present an opportunity for libraries to distribute content creation and maintenance and add Web 2.0 features to library websites. This workshop will provide an overview of several content management systems, compare and contrast system functionality and features, and demonstrate how open source CMSs can be used to enhance library websites. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:15:50 +0100 893198 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8978 State: New Jersey Library Web Developer/Designer Princeton University Library Princeton, New Jersey Requisition #1000633 The Princeton University Library comprises a large central library and nine specialized libraries that are heavily used by an academic community of 6,400 students, 1,100 faculty members, and many visiting scholars. To support the diverse needs of its users, the Library holds some six million printed volumes, ranging from incunabula to current imprints, and provides access to many other records of human knowledge, such as ancient papyri and cylinder seals, modern literary manuscripts, and recently produced electronic databases and journals. The Library employs more than 300 professional and support personnel, complemented by a large student and hourly workforce. Please consult the Library Web site for more information http://library.princeton.edu Available: Immediately Description and Responsibilities: The Web Developer position will help the Library Web Development Manager on specific projects to deliver more library content and services to our users from our web sites. Specific projects may include designing new sites, or using new web services technologies to improve the user experience in discovering, searching, finding, or acquiring library materials and content. Additionally, the position will assist in implementing the Drupal CMS, customizing the interface for the latest version of the OPAC, and creating mobile ready versions of the library web site and catalog. Customization tasks for the new NextGen Discovery system will be a large component of the work. Projects will also likely include implementation of open source code created in other libraries, using various API's made available by Google, OCLC, or Code4Lib members as well as various library vendors. This position will also be assigned other digital library projects as the need arises. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:00:02 +0100 892579 http://thelifeofbooks.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-form-of-cheeseburger-modern.html [With due thanks to Jason Wilson's brilliant post, "Secondary Materials are Like Cheeseburgers," I propose below, a concept of how law librarians, law review editors, scholars and bloggers can cooperate and build a better (well, new!) cheeseburger. These are random thoughts. I welcome feedback. RL]The recipe: Take Web 2.0 + Digital Commons + Durham Statement; Combine them, process until well-done (Source: The Life of Books) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893624 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/12/13/a-kindling-we-go/ Libraries are definitely on the brink of a paradigm shift in terms of  lending.  In an effort to give a variety of e-book options a try for my students, we invested in four Kindles a few months ago.  Teachers had the first opportunities to check them out, but we began with student check-outs two weeks ago. We had already invested in a variety of other e-book options for students, like e-books embedded in our catalog from Follett and Gale, but so far, the Kindle has gotten the most response from students for fiction reading.  In fact, I only advertised the availability of the Kindles on our library website, but didn’t offer much other fanfare, and students have been lining up to check them out. We are using a checkout process similar to one Buffy Hamilton outlined in her excellent posts on using Kindles, with a permission slip from parents that we modified, and a one-week check out period initially. One feature I am finding  intriguing is that you can load .pdf files or .txt files on the Kindle, among other types of files.  If you attach your Kindle to your computer, it adds it as a viewable drive, and you can simply drag the .pdf or .txt or even .mp3 files to the Kindle desktop and place them in the appropriate folder. (PDF files don’t always render as beautifully as you might like if the fonts are small in the original document as this demo points out, but the demo video also suggests some fixes that improve the visibility of a .pdf including switching to landscape mode.) The ability to add .PDF files adds some interesting ideas for teachers/librarians–you could load a document on how to create MLA format for the books on the Kindle, or review documents for a particular subject or readings for a class, etc.    Students could upload sheet music for their original compositions or their own “poetry” collected in a .pdf, etc. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:00:43 +0100 893800 http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/more-blogsights-web-20-tech-focusing-on.html Mula naman kay jsdesingano -- Sa bilis ng pag-usong ng teknolohiya  sa panahon natin ngayon kailangan nating makasabay sa takbo nito. Ang paggamit ng Web 2.0 technology at ang pagbablog ay ang paraan para magawa ito. Bilang librarian o library staff maraming bagay tayong kailangang isaalang-alang: -       Time (time management) -       Being Responsible -       Considering ethics -       (Source: School Librarian in Action) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893693 http://vivabibliotecaviva.blogspot.com/2010/12/dispositivos-moveis-nas-bibliotecas.html A sociedade de informação está em constante evolução, os dispositivos móveis estão em força na sociedade e cada vez mais integrados com os produtores de conteúdos, desde os jornais às bibliotecas. Os dispositivos móveis permitem um acesso à informação, metamorfoseando a comunicação.Algumas bibliotecas agarram este novo desafio a apresentam uma série de aplicações possíveis para usufruto dos seus utilizadores, tanto conteúdos como serviços, por exemplo: o portal Web da biblioteca acessível, serviços de alerta por SMS, geo-localização, acesso ao OPAC, (Mobile OPAC) e M-Repositórios, Códigos QR, serviço de recomendações, conteúdos para ebooks, tutoriais vídeo, podcats, etc.Ainda muitos problemas técnicos terão que ser resolvidos e ultrapassados, assim como os profissionais  das bibliotecas terão que demonstrar mais vontade em experimentar estas novas plataformas.Documentos a  consultar:Arroyo, Natalia. Web móvil y bibliotecas. El Profesional de la Información, vol. 18, núm. 2, marzo-abril 2009, pp. 129-136. Disponible en: http://eprints.rclis.org/16063/M-Libraries: Information use on the move : A report from the Arcadia Programme, by Keren Mills (18 Maio 2009) Utilidades de la web móvil para profesionales de la información, Natalia Arroyo In comunidad de prácticas sobre web móvilNatalia Arroyo apresenta-nos duas reflexões introdutórias sobre o tema:Web móvil y bibliotecasView more presentations from natalia.arroyo.Adaptando contenidos para la web móvil: pautas y herramientas para bibliotecas públicasAdaptando contenidos para la web móvil: pautas y herramientas para bibliotecas públicasView more presentations from natalia.arroyo.O nosso colega Pedro Príncipe (rato de biblioteca) apresentou a comunicação "Conteúdos para dispositivos móveis: uma oportunidade para as bibliotecas" nas VI Conferências do Cenáculo: Biblioteca 2. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893283 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/12/google-maps-and-protesters.html There's a really excellent example of the way in which Google Maps can be used quickly and effectively. The student #fees protest created an excellent map which clearly indicates the position of different police elements and those of protesters: There's a whole bunch of issues that come out of this. Firstly, a reliance on Google, rather than any alternative. Google - by not doing anything about this use - is complicit in the protest, and I wonder just how much pressure it would take to get them to withdraw use or block this particular map? How quickly would protesters be able to re-create this somewhere else? Another issue is that it wouldn't be difficult to create a private version of something like this, with limited access, so we've then got social media resources supporting protest, which is pushing the social media envelope even closer towards anarchy (I don't actually have a problem with this at all, and I often make the point that Web2 stuff is anarchic). Because Twitter is so easy to use, so fast and effective at getting information out there I predict that the use of it is going to absolutely skyrocket with students and younger people who have until now not used it a great deal. How long will it take for the government to catch up with this I wonder? Can anyone still be in doubt about the use of social media? How long will people still try and brush off Twitter as useless celebrity gossip? (Source: Phil Bradley) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892492 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/ihqPxxAWv_M/protopage-replacing-pageflakes.html At the conclusion of this term, students creating their electronic portfolios were greeted with an unpleasant surprise when their Pageflakes portals were unavailable. The site suffered a number of significant outages between mid-October and the end of November and even this evening, is not available to users. I have been researching any number or web sites that could provide the same LibGuide-like results for students to use; the assignment is a great ice-breaker, students use a 2.0 technology and put the first building block in place with ease. I may have found a perfect companion to Netvibes, replacing Pageflakes, with Protopage.A 2.0 start page, similar in nature to Netvibes, iGoogle, and Pageflakes (without the previously mentioned spotty usage reports) it provides users with opportunity to personalize their web experience."Protopage leverages Web 2.0 methodologies to create a very smooth drag-and-drop interface that acts more like your desktop than a browser home page, and not only does it have just about everything you will want in a start page, but it does almost everything well." -- The Scoop on Protopage, Daniel Nations, About.com Web TrendsI registered for a free account and quickly created a usable page. Not as flashy as Netvibes, it does provide easy options for text with wysiwyg editors and 'sticky notes,' video with html options in the text editor and widget boxes for video, and several different options to create bookmark lists and news feeds.This afternoon I wrote and revised a short series of storyboards for video tutorials. I used Screencast-o-matic, along with a little help from YouTube's Video Editor, to produce two video tutorials (in HD). The videos, Protopage Introduction and Adding Widgets to Your Portal, will be featured this spring replacing the Pageflake videos.Next I plan to move forward with incorporating Google Docs Forms in the classroom. ... Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:26:00 +0100 893732 http://familymanlibrarian.com/2010/12/12/christmas-is-the-season-for-stress/ I haven’t written anything here of any substance for a very long time. I’m not exactly sure why except that I haven’t felt the need or compulsion to do so. One of the thoughts that has been distilling inside for a long time is that this whole Web 2.0 / social media / whatever-you-want-to-call-it thing is becoming more and more obviously a giant exercise in self gratification and self glorification. And I have participated in that for a long time, including in this blog. It’s ironic that I am therefore expressing that thought here, but oh well… It’s the season of Christmas and like most of the last ten years of our married life, Michele and I are at the stage where there is way too much to do, too little time in which to do it all, and we’re really overwhelmed and stressed out. There is so much to do just around the house, for example. We are real people with normal kids. Translated: Our house is a big mess. Our garage is a mess, too; so much so that we can’t do the usual thing and shift messes from inside the house to the garage. What, oh, what, are we going to do? And how on earth are we going to get it done in time for Christmas and New Year’s? Why is it that this season is so stressful, always, always, always?! Ugh. Yesterday was a prime example of this. We had plans to do lots of things, starting with dropping off one of our cars to have the transmission fixed at a place that’s about 40 minutes away. I drove the van to be fixed, while Michele drove the other one. We succeeded in dropping the van off and then I noticed that the van Michele and Keegan usually drive was way overdue for an oil change and tire rotation. ... Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:25:33 +0100 893029 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/familymanlibrarian/dwVA/~3/oO1k30DAD6M/ I haven’t written anything here of any substance for a very long time. I’m not exactly sure why except that I haven’t felt the need or compulsion to do so. One of the thoughts that has been distilling inside for a long time is that this whole Web 2.0 / social media / whatever-you-want-to-call-it thing is becoming more and more obviously a giant exercise in self gratification and self glorification. And I have participated in that for a long time, including in this blog. It’s ironic that I am therefore expressing that thought here, but oh well… It’s the season of Christmas and like most of the last ten years of our married life, Michele and I are at the stage where there is way too much to do, too little time in which to do it all, and we’re really overwhelmed and stressed out. There is so much to do just around the house, for example. We are real people with normal kids. Translated: Our house is a big mess. Our garage is a mess, too; so much so that we can’t do the usual thing and shift messes from inside the house to the garage. What, oh, what, are we going to do? And how on earth are we going to get it done in time for Christmas and New Year’s? Why is it that this season is so stressful, always, always, always?! Ugh. Yesterday was a prime example of this. We had plans to do lots of things, starting with dropping off one of our cars to have the transmission fixed at a place that’s about 40 minutes away. I drove the van to be fixed, while Michele drove the other one. We succeeded in dropping the van off and then I noticed that the van Michele and Keegan usually drive was way overdue for an oil change and tire rotation. ... Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:25:33 +0100 892836 http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/blogsights-web-20-technology-focus-on.html Here are two more reflections from participants of the Web 2.0 seminar-workshop I conducted last November 26, 2010 at the De La Salle University, Dasmarinas, Cavite.                From Khatlyn Grace Alcedo -         Web 2.0 technology is very important to people especially for the librarians because by means of these there’s an interaction between the user and the provider of information. (Source: School Librarian in Action) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892093 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/12/11/librarians-are-in-the-social-network/ A common thread of discussion among wired librarians is the struggle they face in getting recognized for how technologically connected they are and how students rely on their services for assistance. In most high schools, particularly, the library itself is fairly “wired”–outfitted with computers and devices of all kinds for multimedia productions and research uses, online catalogs and databases, scanners, etc.   To librarians, these are ubiquitous tools that are just in a day’s work.  Recently I was asked on an application to explain the ways I used technology in the library.  I had a difficult time separating out how I use technology, because as a librarian, I don’t “use” technology–it’s just embedded into everything we do. Yet, often, the fact that many of a librarian’s daily activities rely on their proficiency with technology can be overlooked both at the administrative level and in the public at large.  And too often librarians find themselves struggling to get the resources they need, or being treated like second class technological users within their schools, or discounted by policy makers,  instead of recognized as the strong, tech savvy leaders for students that they are, and can be. The Speak up 2009 National survey by Project Tomorrow paints a picture of the strong role librarians play in schools regarding technology use in student learning. The survey showed that in all but two of 9 categories, librarian use of technology far exceeds that of teachers and even students(as reported in Knowledge Quest November/December 2010). Just a few of the numbers tell the tale–according to the survey, thirty-four percent  of librarians used a social network to seek help, 33% posted to a blog (compared to 18% of teachers surveyed), 25% found other experts online to assist them , and 22% started a wiki or blog (compared to 10% of teachers surveyed). ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 04:52:21 +0100 892161 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/qualitative-research-in-web-20.html The international conference on Qualitative Research in Web 2.0 will be held on the 22 & 23 February 2011 in Macau, China. The conference will explore critical issues and opportunities of implementing online qualitative research. The themes are:What are the advantages and disadvantages of conducting qualitative research online?Integrating Web 2.0 into traditional qualitative researchUnderstanding when to use online methods over traditional methodsHow to design, execute and report online qualitative research studies?Developing participant recruitment strategiesKeeping stakeholders engaged: how to keep clients involved in your online researchDiscussing challenges while carrying out qualitative analyses in social mediaDeveloping engaging market research online communities for qualitative researchExploring the use online research community for understanding cultural assumptionsEvaluating different types of approaches with the online research communityDiscussing the use of multiple online communities for one large research studyIdentifying the pros and cons of MROCs over online panel and focus groupsUtilising a mobile platforms to capture the 'moment': capturing text, pictures and videos in real-timeUtilising cutting-edge online qualitative research techniques for evaluating government web applications (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892151 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/aVspwlrd5-g/ The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has released 8% of Online Americans Use Twitter. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. Some of the groups who are notable for their relatively high levels of Twitter use include: Young adults—Internet users ages 18-29 are significantly more likely to use Twitter than older adults. African-Americans and Latinos—Minority internet users are more than twice as likely to use Twitter as are white internet users. Urbanites—Urban residents are roughly twice as likely to use Twitter as rural dwellers. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:03:18 +0100 892655 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/09/8-of-online-americans-use-twitter/ The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has released 8% of Online Americans Use Twitter. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. Some of the groups who are notable for their relatively high levels of Twitter use include: Young adults—Internet users ages 18-29 are significantly more likely to use Twitter than older adults. African-Americans and Latinos—Minority internet users are more than twice as likely to use Twitter as are white internet users. Urbanites—Urban residents are roughly twice as likely to use Twitter as rural dwellers. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:03:05 +0100 891963 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blogpocket/~3/i-O8Q2csrnM/ Como pueden ver a lo largo del siguiente resumen (compuesto por los posts en los que se nombra por primera vez a cada aplicación o acontecimiento), de Napster a Wikileaks solo hay un paso, a pesar de que han transcurrido 10 años. El único paso que significa libertad de expresión y, como decía Salam Pax, poder asomarse a un mundo distinto, sin el control del Estado ni de ninguna otra organización. La ruta que hemos realizado, como verán a continuación, es una lucha por utilizar una herramienta, Internet, que nació libre y que ha servido para hacer evolucionar a la sociedad como nunca ninguna otra lo hizo en la historia de la humanidad. Hace 10 años me preguntaba cómo era posible que pudiese existir algo que nos permitiera comunicarnos y expresarnos libremente sin la presión de los poderes como gobiernos, multinacionales, etc. Hoy, esa cuestión está más vigente que nunca. Los próximos meses son vitales. Napster en peligro (14-2-2001). El creador de Napster, Shawn Fanning, al que se representa en la película La Red Social, como un vividor que se aprovecha de Mark Zuckerberg, sufrió el mismo acoso que éste y que, por supuesto, Julian Assange. YouTube (22-8-2005). El 22 de agosto de 2005 anunciábamos una nueva aplicación de la siguiente forma: “Servicio similar a Flickr pero para vídeos“. YouTube marca un antes y un después en la Red. Los contenidos audiovisuales, hasta entonces, eran privilegio de unos pocos. Con YouTube, la producción audiovisual alcanzaba a cualquiera con cámara en mano. Web 2.0 (19-8-2005). Decíamos en aquél primer post, en el que utilizábamos el término web 2.0, que lo había acuñado Dale Dougherty. ... Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:33:41 +0100 892265 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/PBJtTKXrlBA/continuing-the-conversation-social-software-and-the-library-session-2.html Earlier today, Robin Hastings and David Lee King held the second session of their ALA TechSource Workshop Facebook, Twitter and More: Using Social Software in the Library. The following are some of the questions asked during the session. Robin and David will be chiming in via comments, and you can as well. How do you measure the success of your library’s Facebook page? Do you have a feeling about whether the increase of smart phones is/will be making a difference to a  library presence on foursquare? Do you have suggestions for opening up existing Twitter accounts to staff? Is it a good practice to post the same things to Facebook and Twitter? Can you talk about some tools that can help you do this? Resources from David and Robin 9 Practical Ways to Start Attracting an Audience to Your New Social Media Account:http://www.problogger.net/archives/2010/12/09/9-practical-ways-to-start-attracting-an-audience-to-your-new-social-media-account/ Open Facebook Search: searches all open facebook accounts: www.openfacebooksearch.com Blogging guidelines from michaelhyatt.com: http://michaelhyatt.com/thomas-nelson-corporate-blogging-guidelines.html Topeka commenting guidelines: http://www.tscpl.org/about/comments/discussion_guidelines/ Hootsuite: www.hootsuite.com Tweetdeck: www.tweetdeck.com Postling: www.postling.com Social mention: www.socialmention.com/ Robin's Library's Website: http://www.mrrl.org David's Library's Website http://www.tscpl.org/ Resources from Participants http://www.freegalmusic.com Database of social media policies for government/non-profit agencies: http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php?f=5 Preliminary Reading Material This was the preliminary reading material for the event, though it will certainly still be helpful after the event as well. Robin Hastings, Collaboration 2.0: Chapters 5 and 6, Library Technology Reports, (45:4) May/June 2009 http://alatechsource.metapress. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:24:23 +0100 891663 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/08/gewinner-des-wissenswert-wettbewerbs/ Via Heise.de: Der Verein Wikimedia Deutschland hat die Gewinner seines Ideenwettbewerbs “WissensWert” bekannt gegeben. Aus den 93 Ideen und Projektvorschlägen zur Förderung freien Wissens, die seit dem Start der Aktion Mitte September bis Mitte Oktober eingegangen sind, hat die fünfköpfige Jury acht ausgesucht, die kommendes Jahr mit bis zu 5000 Euro unterstützt werden sollen. Unter den Gewinnern befindet sich unter anderem Jan-Christoph Borchardt mit seinem Vorschlag für ein Verzeichnis freier Projekte: Es gibt viel freies Wissen, nur wenige die _das_ wissen. Die größte Barriere freier Software, Musik, Produkte und vielem mehr ist deren Bekanntheit. Es fehlt eine Webseite, auf der all diese Dienste kategorisiert und beschrieben sind. Ein bisschen wie http://alternativeto.net, allerdings nicht nur für Software und nur für freie / offene. (Source: Infobib) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:52:11 +0100 892090 http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/blogsights.html Me-anne Jimenez-Salvador writes her insights on the Web 2.0 Technology seminar-workshop I conducted at De La Salle University , Dasmarinas, Cavite last November 26, 2010.It seems that blogging is enjoyable thing to do. But my question is, do I have time on earth to do this thing?  First, I don’t have access on the site except today because we have workshop and we need to familiarize ourselves (Source: School Librarian in Action) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892095 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/Cbq0CTRX7r0/ Portland Public Teen Library: 2010 Year In Review on Prezi I’ve been thinking a lot about transparency this year.  It might have to do with  the term becoming a buzz word of some sorts, or maybe because the ongoing discussion concerning Wikileaks in news media.  A huge part of me, however, thinks that I came to the conclusion that as a public employee I have an obligation to inform my community about what I’m doing.  Nonetheless, I approached creating a 2010 year in review for the Portland Public Teen Library with this idea in mind. Here’s the full annual report on the Portland Public Teen Library website The one thing I realized about annual reports as I created this one was that they can often times be a bit heavy on the positive stuff.  With that in mind, I’d like to add a few things that I will be aiming to change in the Teen Library in 2011. Create a Teen Advisory Board.  Involve them in the creation of programs, collection development, and the creation of the year in review. Have a fail section in the year in review.  What didn’t work at the library and why?  What can the Teen Library do to improve A in depth look at how the teen materials and programming budget was spent.  Where did the money go?  How were grants effectively used? Stats are good, but be more in depth about the breakdown of age/gender/target audience using the teen library. -Post by Justin Hoenke, Tame the Web Contributor (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:25:18 +0100 891094 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/YBT-u1kKLDI/3292-pandia-search-engine-news-wrap-up-dec-5.html Sorry for the absence. The Pandia editors have been out travelling (from experiencing the Korea conflict in Seoul to taking part in the Online Information Conference in London). Now we are back onhspace=”4″ track, however, with a new list of search engine relevant articles and posts from around the Web. Making Copyright Work Better Online Google Public Policy Blog: We will prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete. We’ll act on reliable copyright takedown requests within 24 hours. We will experiment to make authorised preview content more readily accessible in search results. Japan Approves Yahoo-Google Search Deal, Microsoft Cries Foul SE Watch: Microsoft, who delivers search results to Yahoo elsewhere in the world, does not like that Yahoo! Japan pairs up with Google. Google tracks Santa Google Blog: A tradition that brings joy to youngsters everywhere is the one started in 1955 by NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which every year counts down to Christmas Eve and tracks Santa’s whereabouts as he delivers presents across the globe. Introducing Google Earth Engine Google Blog: Google Earth Engine is a new technology platform that puts an unprecedented amount of satellite imagery and data—current and historical—online for the first time. It enables global-scale monitoring and measurement of changes in the earth’s environment. What Social Signals Do Google & Bing Really Count? Danny Sullivan, SE Land: I gave Bing and Google six questions about how they use social data from Twitter and Facebook. In particular, I wanted to know how that data influenced regular web search results, not the impact it has on the dedicated social search tools they have. Google Doodles arrive for iPhone and Android TechRadar: Google has brought its popular Doodles to mobile phones, with Android and iOS handsets the first to get the colourful search logos. ... Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:17:36 +0100 891006 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/12/le-web-un-point-cest-tout-.html Avertissement au lecteur : billet dans lequel il sera notablement question du web, de son avenir, d'écluses, de navigateurs, de théorie des graphes, de fractales et dans lequel les termes de "graphologue" et de "graphomane" seront délibérement employés de manière parfaitement fantaisiste. Vous êtes ici. Pourquoi le web, pourtant si bifurquant, si rhizomatique, si sensiblement épars, nous semble-t-il si aisément abordable, si facilement traversable, embarqués que nous sommes, équipage de moussaillons mal dégrossis derrière leur navigateur (browser), vaisseau amiral en haute mer des hyperliens possibles ? Est-ce là la seule grâce et le seul fait d'une formidable et trans-maritime écluse répondant au nom de Google ? Est-ce là l'inaléniable mérite de "moteurs" de recherche fixant eux-mêmes le cap, listant par défaut quelles routes seront ouvertes et traversables parce que par eux-mêmes balisées (indexées) et quelles voies resteront inaccessibles sauf à quelques rares mais essentiels navigateurs chevronnés ? Non. Si le web, malgré son immensité de contenus donc, nous est rendu appropriable, si le sentiment d'être "lost in hyperspace" s'efface souvent au profit d'une découverte hasardeuse, heureuse (sérendipité) et rassurante, c'est pour une raison simple. Le web. Aller et retour. C'est parce que le web est un graphe. Mais un graphe particulier. Un graphe à invariance d'échelle(1), c'est à dire avec de la redondance, beaucoup de redondance, c'est à dire un graphe ni vraiment aléatoire ni vraiment hiérarchique. ... Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/0wKvZ5BZXBM/ Congratulations to Phil Bradley for being elected as Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK. Phil will serve one year as Vice-President, one year as President, and one year as Past President. I’ve known Phil virtually for almost ten years – he adapted my Internet training book for UK audiences. We’ve only met in person and chatted briefly at ILI but I look forward to the next time we are together. I want to buy him a congratulatory drink. His candidate manifesto surely contributed to his win – it includes an overview of his professional experience as a trainer and technologist: CILIP is currently embroiled in three distinct areas; a need to make itself more relevant to those in the library and information profession; redefining itself in order to support the profession in the coming years; a need to position itself to better put the case for the continued existence and importance for both libraries and professionally qualified librarians. I believe that I am well qualified to help CILIP achieve all of these things. In the last 25 years I’ve worked closely with information professionals who are active in many different sectors; public, commercial, school, academic and science and technology. I want to ensure CILIP addresses all of their needs by providing better advice, by leading the way in technological advances, by trying new things and giving librarians a chance to explore resources, from software to hardware, from Web 2.0 resources to iPads and beyond. As a result of the many training courses that I run and the conversations that I have with librarians I’m aware of the frustrations that many of you have day to day; being sidelined, and controlled by technology, not controlling it. CILIP needs to lead and advocate by example – it should not be afraid to try new things, highlighting what works and what doesn’t. ... Sun, 05 Dec 2010 04:07:54 +0100 890395 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/03/more-on-finding-hidden-treasure/ My last column addressed an odd feature of current legal periodical publishing: a number of legal publishers do not expose interoperable metadata for their periodical articles on the free Web, and do not sell or license individual periodical articles online. We saw that these practices seem unusual because they are inconsistent with industry trends, and because these publishers already use digital publishing processes, have access to free or low-cost ejournal platform and ecommerce software, often have access within their own corporate families to expertise in implementing such software and services, and, given the size of the global market and the interdisciplinary appeal of much of these publishers’ periodical content, seem to be foregoing substantial marketing opportunities and revenue streams. Given all the factors weighing in favor of freeing up metadata and implementing article-level ecommerce on the Web, what could be holding these publishers back? Here are some suggestions: Low levels of competition. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger has observed that legal publishers — like producers in other industries — when faced with minimal or no competition in a market, tend to resist innovation, due to a lack of incentives; Fear of cannibalizing print subscriptions. Some publishers may worry that improving Web access to periodical content will cause some print customers to cancel their subscriptions, resulting in overall declines in revenue for periodical content. Fear of cannibalizing online subscriptions. Legal publishers may worry that, if interoperable metadata and ecommerce for articles were offered on the Web, online periodical subscription customers might cancel their subscriptions in favor of purchasing articles on an ad hoc basis, and that this, too, would result in overall declines in revenue from periodical content. Failure to understand the scope of potential demand. ... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:00:56 +0100 890702 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/pkp-2011-conference-call-for-proposals.html PKP 2011 Conference - Call for ProposalsURL: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011CFP URL: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011/schedConf/cfpThe Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing ConferenceBuilding and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the WorldThe Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that, in partnership with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. This is the first time that the PKP Conference is being held outside of Vancouver, Canada, and we look forward to meeting more members of the growing, international PKP user community. Given that the landmark Budapest Open Access Initiative, launched in December 2001, will be celebrating its first decade, the conference invites explorations of the lessons learned, successes achieved, and setbacks overcome in our shared attempts to increase and open access within scholarly publishing. The first and second PKP conferences brought together a remarkable array of presentations and participants from around the world, and we anticipate an equally valuable experience in 2011.Proposals that address one or more of the following topics are especially encouraged:* New reading and publishing technologies, e.g., integration of Web 2.0 features;* Reports on national and regional open access policies and initiatives;* Alternative publishing and funding models;* National and international collaborative projects;* New roles and partnerships for libraries, scholarly publishers, and others;* Sustainability for open access publishing and open source software. ... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 890338 http://blog.sedic.es/?p=3704 En esta décimo segunda edición 2010, las Jornadas de Gestión de la Información de SEDIC se han organizado en torno al valor económico de la información: mercados, servicios y rentabilidad. Las Jornadas fueron inauguradas por Glòria Pérez-Salmerón, directora de la Biblioteca Nacional de España, institución de acogida, Rogelio Blanco, director general del Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas del Ministerio de Cultura y Eugenio López de Quintana, presidente de SEDIC. Tras las intervenciones de bienvenida y de presentación de las Jornadas, María de Inclán Sánchez, presidenta del Comité organizador, dio paso a la primera de las intervenciones: Rob Reynolds, director de Diseño e Investigación de Xplana, abrió las Jornadas con la conferencia “El verdadero valor de la información en el mundo digital”. Su intervención sirvió para enmarcar todos los temas de las Jornadas. Desde una visión pragmática, destacó la importancia del cargo del gestor de la información como la “Profesión más importante del mundo”. Nos encontramos en un momento de transición con el mundo digital y se hace apremiante buscar otras salidas o maneras de hacer negocio. Los gestores de la información deberán hoy en día hacerse diversas preguntas: ¿Qué tipo de información debemos organizar, teniendo en cuenta que la información no es estática? El usuario es lo más importante, por lo que debemos preguntarnos: ¿Qué espera el usuario? ¿Cómo se transforma nuestra perspectiva? Debemos pasar del modelo de entrega (antiguo) en el que el contenido era vital, al modelo actual donde lo vital es el valor de los servicios. No se debe olvidar que la información se duplica cada dos años y que cada minuto en youtube se cargan 35 horas de vídeo, por lo que podemos deducir que la información es dinámica. Esto nos lleva a un nuevo paradigma “buscar versus navegar”, que podríamos denominar como un paradigma de “descubrimiento versus entrega”. ... Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:05:42 +0100 890404 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/T6X5o-vlReA/the_web_2_debrief_video.php Almost immediately after the Web 2.0 Summit last month, Tim O'Reilly and I sat down at an FM event and debriefed each other on what we learned. Here's the video. (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 889912 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16126 Instructional Design Technologist (Atlanta University Center, Georgia)  POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Library Instructional Design Technologist  The Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center (RWWL-AUC), Inc. is an organization undergoing dynamic transformation.  Our uniqueness among academic libraries is our service to four historically black institutions in the Atlanta University Center – Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, and the Interdenominational Theological Center.   Our mission is to serve as the center of the Atlanta University Center academic village to provide the highest level of information resources and services in support of teaching and learning, scholarship and cultural preservation. ... Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:10:01 +0100 889622 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/WuXe1EWAXAY/continuing-the-conversation-social-software-and-the-library-session-1.html Earlier today, Robin Hastings and David Lee King held the first session of their ALA TechSource Workshop Facebook, Twitter and More: Using Social Software in the Library. The following are some of the questions asked during the session. Robin and David will be chiming in via comments, and you can as well. What kind of training is involved in getting staff to use meebo and other chat-based tools? How much time do you think a library needs to commit? Can you share some samples of policy statements for posting on Facebook, blogs, etc? Can you share some ideas for getting people to participate in, rather than just looking at, your Facebook activity Preliminary Reading Material This was the preliminary reading material for the event, though it will certainly still be helpful after the event as well. Robin Hastings, Collaboration 2.0: Chapters 5 and 6, Library Technology Reports, (45:4) May/June 2009 http://alatechsource.metapress.com/content/q89379687n05 Kate Sheehan, Keeping up with Keeping Up, ALA TechSource Blog, August 3, 2010: http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2010/07/keeping-up-with-keeping-up.html Darlene Fitcher, Seven Strategies for Marketing in a Web 2.0 World, Marketing Library Services, (21:2) March/April 2007 http://www.infotoday.com/mls/mar07/Fichter.shtml Brian McManus, The Implications of Web 2.0 for Academic Libraries, Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, (10:3) Winter 2009 http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v10n03/mcmanus_b01.html Resources Links to sites mentioned on the slides and in the discussion: http://www.delicious.com/rhastings/alaworkshop   Robin’s Slides are available at: http://www.slideshare.net/ALATechSource/social-software-presentationhastings Her collaboration tools worksheet is available at: http://www.slideshare.net/ALATechSource/collaboration-tools-ala-workshop And her marketing metrics worksheet is available at:http://www.slideshare. ... Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:26:26 +0100 890269 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/o4wYJeJ2Bus/ We just sent the revised draft to the New Review of Academic Librarianship. Here is the abstract: Replicated across the globe, the Learning 2.0 program – also known as “23 Things” – has been touted as a means to not only educate staff about emerging social technologies but as a means of moving the participating library forward. This paper explores the results of a multi-faceted research project launched in Australia in 2009 as part of the CAVAL Visiting Scholar program, focusing on academic library staff who have participated in a Learning 2.0 program. Measuring the impact on staff, examining perceptions of the program and describing the lasting effects are all a part of the research project. The paper includes results from a national survey in Australia of participants in “23 Things” style programs and reports on focus groups made up of staff of two academic libraries, two to three years after the conclusion of respective Learning 2.0 initiatives. The authors offer a detailed examination of the personal and institutional changes after a library offers such a program to staff. Results include an emphasis on personal change, openness to emerging technologies and a willingness to explore. Library staff report they are more comfortable with emerging technologies and have incorporated the tools into their work. Keywords: learning 2.0; academic libraries; 23 things; Web 2.0 Authors: Michael Stephens - Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, USA Warren Cheetham - CityLibraries Townsville, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Special thanks to Richard Sayers for his invaluable help with his paper. (Cross posted from Research @ TTW) (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:27:06 +0100 889670 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/01/republik-infobib-groser-als-vatikan/ Der Sharenators bietet anschauliche Vergleiche und Visualisierungen zur Größe der Nutzerschaft einzelner Webseiten. Für Infobib.de heißt das: If Infobib.de were a country, it would be larger than Vatican City. 1 in every 500,000 internet users visit Infobib.de daily. Die Schätzungen basieren auf Alexa, kommen aber in der Größenordnung für die Webseiten, bei denen ich es einschätzen kann, einigermaßen hin. (Source: Infobib) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:16:41 +0100 890563 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/11/30/edublog-awards-addendum-part-3/ When I was completing the Edublog Awards, I realized how few “new” bloggers I promote or read regularly.  (In fact, one of the things that appeals to me about the awards is that it brings so many new blogs to my attention).  Recently, this blog from the “new school librarian” Melissa Corey cut through the “internet clutter” and caught my eye.   A self-proclaimed geek with a human touch, in her profile, she beautifully describes what a “new school librarian” looks like: Yes, I am new on the job.  But I also bring a new perspective to the job.  I see the importance of information in the lives of today’s populous.  I simply use new ways of meeting these needs.  Our collection is smaller but of higher quality.  Our facility is remodeled to be user-friendly.  Our use of technology reaches the user on their terms, on their time.  It’s a new philosophy of school librarianship.  I am a new school librarian. For her honest and well-written accounts of her efforts as a new librarian and blogger, I’d like to honor The New School Librarian’s blog for Best New Blog in the Edublog Awards.  I look forward to reading more from her! addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ffutura.edublogs.org%2F2010%2F11%2F30%2Fedublog-awards-addendum-part-3%2F'; addthis_title = 'Edublog+Awards+addendum+part+3'; addthis_pub = ''; (Source: Not So Distant Future) Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:34:32 +0100 890414 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/cfp-third-international-pkp-scholarly.html CFP: The Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing ConferenceBuilding and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the WorldThe Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that, in partnership with the Freie Universit=E4t Berlin, the Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference (http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011) will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. This is the first time that the PKP Conference is being held outside of Vancouver, Canada, and we look forward to meeting more members of the growing, international PKP user community. Given that the landmark Budapest Open Access Initiative, launched in December 2001, will be celebrating its first decade, the conference invites explorations of the lessons learned, successes achieved,  and setbacks overcome in our shared attempts to increase and open access within scholarly publishing. The first and second PKP conferences brought together a remarkable array of presentations and participants from around the world, and we anticipate an equally valuable experience in 2011.Proposals that address one or more of the following topics are especially encouraged:*New reading and publishing technologies, e.g., integration of Web 2.0 features;*Reports on national and regional open access policies and initiatives;*Alternative publishing and funding models;*National and international collaborative projects;*New roles and partnerships for libraries, scholarly publishers, and others;*Sustainability for open access publishing and open source software. ... Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 890342 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/of-kQOSHKfI/ David E. Millard et al. have self-archived "MePrints: Building User Centred Repositories" in the ECS EPrints Repository. Here's an excerpt: Teaching and Learning Repositories learning from the best practices of Web 2.0. Over this time we have successfully deployed a number of innovative repositories, including Southampton University EdShare, The Language Box, The HumBox, Open University’s LORO and Worcester Learning Box. A key part of this work has been the development of an extension for the EPrints repository platform, called MePrints, that enables configurable profile pages, and works alongside existing extensions such as IRStats and SNEEP in order to give users live feeds about repository events that matter to them. Through these deployments we have discovered that more sophisticated profile pages give users a home within a repository, act as a focus for their work, and help them feel more ownership of the work that they deposit. This increases the visibility of the repository and encourages more deposits. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:04:46 +0100 889847 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/11/29/edublog-awards-addendum/ As many of you know from participating, the Global Education conference online was an amazing undertaking by the intrepid Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon.  After participating in some excellent sessions at the conference, I feel compelled to honor them in the Edublogs awards because their work was an amazing example of the ability to harness the power of  a learning network. They  both used their PLN’s to gather presenters for the global, week long online conference, to plan it, and to spread the word about the conference before, during and after it.  And by drawing on their networks, they pulled together a rich learning resource for educators all over the globe. So to honor their efforts, I’d like to add this nomination to my Edublog Awards: For Best Use of a PLN– Steve Hargadon and Lucy Gray for the Global Education Conference 2010. Thanks, Steve and Lucy for such an impressive undertaking!  And if you haven’t had a chance to check out the conference, all of the sessions are archived online for your listening and learning. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ffutura.edublogs.org%2F2010%2F11%2F29%2Fedublog-awards-addendum%2F'; addthis_title = 'Edublog+Awards+addendum'; addthis_pub = ''; (Source: Not So Distant Future) Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:13:39 +0100 890415 http://blog.sedic.es/?p=3672 Desde hace ya algún tiempo, hay quien incluye en el diseño de sus tarjetas de visita la realidad aumentada. Como sabéis, en el reverso de estas tarjetas debe ir impreso un código o marcador que, en conexión con un ordenador y una webcam, transporta al usuario a realidades en 3D. A nadie se le escapa el papel crucial que desempeñan las tarjetas de visita en el competitivo mundo de los negocios. Un buen diseño puede motivar a nuestros potenciales clientes a interesarse por nosotros o nuestra empresa. Para haceros una tarjeta vistosa, sin complicaros mucho la existencia, podéis crearos una cuenta en Visualcard.me y seguir los sencillos pasos que allí se indican. Además, tanto en Youtube como en Vimeo, existen multitud de tutoriales y muestras de diseños llamativos. Podéis visitar el siguiente enlace para que os hagáis una idea: http://dzineblog.com/2010/10/20-incredible-augmented-reality-business-card-designs.html Esta es una de las múltiples aplicaciones de la AR (augmented reality), pero hay otras muchas. Por ejemplo, conseguir que tu curriculum destaque por encima del resto. David Wood, uno de los co-fundadores de Symbian y CWJobs.co.uk, lo tienen claro. En tan solo minuto y medio, David Wood es capaz de resumir cuáles son sus habilidades de una forma realmente impactante y que desde luego no deja indiferente. Modelos en 3D de ARSights Pilar Auserón Marruedo Miembro del Grupo Web 2.0 de SEDIC (Source: SEDIC - Blog) Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:37:03 +0100 889061 http://lis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/42/4/268?rss=1 Many web 2.0 sites are extremely popular and contain vast amounts of content, but how much of this content is useful in academia? This exploratory paper investigates the potential use of the popular web 2.0 image site Flickr as an academic image resource. The study identified images tagged with any one of 12 subject names derived from recognized academic subject categories in the three main Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) citation indexes. Image content analysis was used to determine the types of images found, and term-frequency analysis of associated tags was carried out to provide additional insights into the context behind image placement. The results show that Flickr can be used as a resource for subject-specific images in some subject areas; and that non subject-specific images can also prove to be of value for individual academics. (Source: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science current issue) Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 889298 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/11/netvibes-page-about-web-20.html I just updated my "Web 2.0" Netvibes page (I'm using it in a class tomorrow). It has links to some "what is ..." items, some items relevant to learning about Web 2.0 (I particualrly recommend the Cambridge University 23 Things blog) and some automatic searches on Web 2.0. It's at http://www.netvibes.com/sheilawebber#Web_2.0_in_general I also updated the Netvibes tab that has links to my own social media etc.Unfortunately I realised belatedly today that my Pageflakes page that aggregated links to information literacy RSS feeds from blogs etc. has disappeared (or rather Pageflakes has), so I will try and recreate that somewhere else (possibly on Netvibes).Photo by Sheila Webber: traditional photo of my watering can in the snow, this morning. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 889188 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62220 To Help Donors Choose, Web Site Alters How It Sizes Up Charities Charity Navigator, perhaps the largest online source for evaluating nonprofit groups, recently embarked on an overhaul to offer a wider, more nuanced array of information to donors who are deciding which organizations they might help. Its reinvention coincides with the growing need of nonprofits to [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:48:19 +0100 888861 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62215 Direct to U. of Miami Libraries Mobile Web Site (No Download Required) The site features: + Library Directory + Library Hours + Search: Access to Summon (Books, Articles, and Other Materials); Links to Mobile Versions of EBSCOhost, IEEE, WorldCat, PubMed, and Refworks Mobile + Research Guides (Libguides) + Computer Availability in Computer Labs (Real Time) + Library News + Ask a Librarian Info [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:54:31 +0100 888789 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62180 Pharmaceutical Marketing and the New Social Media The FDA may reasonably conclude that fair balance in Web-based social media cannot be implemented in a way that is compatible with public health needs, and it may try to ban pharmaceutical promotion entirely from these media. If, as media analysts predict, the agency instead issues new guidance, there [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:12:04 +0100 888540 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16109 Reference and Emerging Technologies Librarian (Temple University, Pennsylvania) Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education is a comprehensive public research university with more than 39,000 students. It has a distinguished faculty in 17 schools and colleges, including schools of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Podiatry, and Dentistry, and a renowned Health Sciences Center. Temple is one of Pennsylvania’s three public research universities, along with the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University. Temple University is the 26th-largest university in the United States, and it is the 6th-largest provider of professional education (law, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and podiatric medicine) in the country. ... Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:05:02 +0100 888393 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/11/web-20-untangled-technology-enriched.html At #web2untangled, held in Oxford yesterday, Professor Philippa Levy and I gave a presentation: Starting as we mean to go on: Technology-rich Inquiry Based Learning in the first undergraduate year. The first part talks about what Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) is, the second part is an example of the IBL approach in our first year of the BSc Information Management, and the third part identifies some themes in the research literature which address IBL and technology. At the end are 2 slides of the references, and a link to the Sheffield companion to Inquiry Based Learning, which you can download from here.This is the presentation.View more presentations from Sheila Webber. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 888321 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/11/web-20-untangled-illuminate-use-by-ou.html At #web2untangled in Oxford today (where I'm speaking later) the third talk is from Helen Clough at the Open University. For those outside the UK, the Open University is the major distance learning university in the UK. Elluminate is one of the online learning platforms that they use, and the OU library is using it as well. Helen is describing its use, and the feedback they've had. Because I want to drink the coffee I've brought in, I'm goingto be lazy and embed the ppt here instead of writing about it ;-)Using Elluminate to deliver Library training at the Open UniversityView more webinars from Helen Clough. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 889189 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/11/web-20-untangled-1.html Today I'm at the #web2untangled Web 2.0 Untangled conference in Oxford, organised by UC&R and COFHE. Peter Godwin started off the day with a talk entitled Library 2.0: bah humbug?. He began by highlighting how the number of older (50+) users has increased dramatically, and that we are finally entering a phase where e-books are getting used and not just hyped. Talking about the pervasiveness of mobile technology, he mentioned the ECAR study of undergraduate students and technology.Peter thought it was the time to reflect on how useful Web 2.0 was, and what it was really for, as librarians tend to be enthusiatic about it, but students don't really use the range of Web 2.0 tools (e.g. are less likely to blog and use social bookmarking sites). He mentioned a new JISC report Managing students's expectations of university. One role of librarians is helping students to see how they can use tools like Netvibes to keep on top of material for their studies.Coming to information literacy, Peter emphasised that librarians have a big role, but weren't the only people who were concerned with it. He felt that for information literacy in future, sifting and evaluation would be more important than search. Helping students to scope the topic was also important: students finding it hard to understand how they can home in on what they are supposed to be addressing.In terms of creating material, Peter talked about Screenr (here is one of his videos), which I've been using for a while (though I've mostly used it to create videos about Second Life so far).His final words were that for the social, mobile population, information literacy was about changing attitudes, not so much about skills.Photo by Sheila Webber: Grounds of Wolfson College, Oxford, this morning. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 888325 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/11/web-20-untangled-ethics-and-law.html Eric Davies talked about Web 2.0: Weaving ethics and law at the #web2entangled conference in Oxford that I am attending today. This presentation identified how may issues there were, and how few of them were really resolved. He started by asking us to talk amongst ourselves about what ethics meant. He defined it as "moral coices and the values that lie behind them", whilst laws were "agreed principles established by law and society".Meanwhile, Web 2.0 is enabler of creative change - enabling distributed co-creation and so forth. He cited Shoshana Zuboff (Creating value in the age of distributed capitalism): with the focus now on individual creation. Eric characterised this as a mutation in the producion/creation process. This brings empowerment, but also responsibility, to the individual. However, the implications for organisations, as well as individuals, have not really yet been explored properly.In terms of education he saw the mutation manifesting as e-scholarship, and changes in approach to learning and teaching. Eric mentioned Badrul Khan's framework for e-learning does include ethical aspects, which concern "social and political influence, cultural diversity, bias, geographical diversity, learner diversity, information accessibility, etiquette, and the legal issues." (quoted here). He also mentioned other studies which have revealed the concerns about Web 2.0 (such as identity, authority and security) and ways in which Web 2.0 has been used in education (e.g. building relationships, showcasing work). In the latter context, problems that have emerged include ownership issues, disruptive interaction, illegitimate use of content, protecting the anonymity of students and generally protecting their space.Therefore key issues are: trust, privacy, data protection, copyright, plagiarism, unacceptable use (in terms of content and activity) and diversity (cultural diversity, accessibility etc.). ... Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 888324 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/11/web-20-untangled-illuminate-use-by-ou.html At #web2untangled in Oxford today (where I'm speaking later) the third talk is from Helen Clough at the Open University. For those outside the UK, the Open University is the major distance learning university in the UK. Illuminate is one of the online learning platforms that they use, and the OU library is using it as well. Helen is describing its use, and the feedback they've had. Because I want to drink the coffee I've brought in, I'm goingto be lazy and embed the ppt here instead of writing about it ;-)Using Elluminate to deliver Library training at the Open UniversityView more webinars from Helen Clough. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 888323 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/11/web-20-untangled-scientific-social.html At the #web2untangled Lucy Power (Oxford Internet Institute) talked about Scientific social networking and open notebook science today. The conference is organised by COFHE and UC&R and takes place in Wolfson College, Oxford.She said that scientists are using the existing Web 2.0 tools to practice open science, communicating with the general public, and to interact with each other. She mentioned the use of Friendfeed (which enables you to aggregate RSS feeds), where there is a group (for example) called The Life Scientists. Within this group, the scientists have very specific discussion about their work. Participants report using the Friendfeed group for things like: securing research funding, writing grant applications, collaborating, reporting on conferences, publishing, solving problems and searching for information. The scientists report that they are able to build up rapport throught the more "lightweight" conversations, as well as having more heavyweight exchanges, and both are valuable. They are also able to expand their networks (e.g. to include librarians!)Lucy identified one scientist (Cameron Neylon) who she felt was using Web 2.0 to its limit, with an open lab notebook, by publishing about everything he was doing in his lab, on his blog at http://biolab.isis.rl.ac.uk/camerons_labblog. The second example was of the Open Notebook Science awards run by Jean-Claude Bradley (who I recognise, because he is also active and famous in the science community in Second Life!). The third example was of an academic who had his first year Physics students do open lab notebooks: example is here.To summarise - why are scientists using these technologies? One thing is that they get fast answers from a global, expert audience. Also it is open and informal, and enables them to network and form a community. Friendfeed in particular is seen as useful because it allows you to aggregate feeds from all sorts of social fora (Twitter, Facebook etc. etc. ... Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 888322 http://www.bauenblog.info/2010/11/23/los-edificios-sociales/ En los últimos años hemos vivido la eclosión, la madurez y la consolidación de la denominada web social: una nueva forma de entender la web, más dinámica, más participativa, más democrática, más abierta y mejor… más humana y más cercana… Una nueva web que, a pesar de algunas críticas, ha llegado para quedarse, un nueva construcción y un nuevo edificio de lo que queremos que sea Internet. Así podríamos, creo, establecer algunas similitudes con los edificios de las bibliotecas, con su arquitectura. Las construcciones bibliotecarias viven un momento de cambio, un tiempo de transición, hacia una arquitectura más social y más participativa… quizás similar a la arquitectura de la web 2.0. Tenemos una sensación, o una certeza, de que las construcciones que hemos venido haciendo hasta ahora ya no sirven, o que al menos, hay que modificarlas, cambiarlas, readaptarlas… transformarlas en algo nuevo y diferente. Todo es posible … y todo está aún por hacer. Hemos, pues, de ser capaces de construir los nuevos edificios sociales del siglo XXI; edificios físicos, palpables, reales, vivos y humanos; ciudadanos, participativos y democráticos. Las bibliotecas parten con ventaja para convertirse en el referente social de sus ciudades, y hay que aprovecharlo y posicionarse. Estas serán, y ya son, el referente urbano de sus ciudades o barrios. Y es una realidad innegable, pero que hay que superar y mejorar. ... Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:59:14 +0100 888971 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/2eTq12erMyg/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Networked Teacher Diagram – Update, originally uploaded by courosa. Nice! (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology) Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:51:38 +0100 888172 http://www.bauenblog.info/2010/11/23/els-edificis-socials/ En els últims anys hem viscut l’eclosió, la maduresa i la consolidació de la denominada web social: una nova forma d’entendre la web, més dinàmica, més participativa, més democràtica, més oberta i millor… més humana i més propera… Una nova web que, malgrat algunes crítiques, ha arribat per a quedar-se; un nova construcció i un nou edifici d’allò que volem que sigui internet. Així podríem, crec, establir algunes similituds amb els edificis de les biblioteques, amb la seva arquitectura. Les construccions bibliotecàries viuen un moment de canvi, un temps de transició, cap a una arquitectura més social i més participativa… potser semblant a l’arquitectura de la web 2.0. Tenim una sensació, o una certesa, de què les construccions que hem vingut fent fins ara ja no serveixen, o que si més no, cal modificar-les, canviar-les, readaptar-les… transformar-les en quelcom de nou, de diferent. Tot és possible… i tot està encara per a fer. Cal, doncs, que siguem capaços de construir els nous edificis socials del segle XXI; edificis físics, palpables, reals, vius i humans; ciutadans, participatius i democràtics. Les biblioteques parteixen amb avantatge per a esdevenir el referent social de les seves ciutats; i cal aprofitar-ho i posicionar-se. Aquestes seran, i ja són, el referent urbà de les seves ciutats o barris. I és una realitat innegable, però que cal superar i millorar. ... Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:50:57 +0100 888972 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62143 Jill O'Neill provides a thorough review of new RocketMelt, a "re-imagined" web browser in an Information Today NewsBreak. So, what does RocketMelt have to offer? Here's a very small portion of the review: The new browser makes an effort to maximize the usability of the available screen display. RockMelt’s innovation is the inclusion of its so-called [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:47:16 +0100 888093 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8517 State: California Apply: https://careers-reardencommerce.icims.com/jobs/1532/job?mode=apply&apply=yes Overview: Rearden Commerce provides the ultimate personal productivity tool: an innovative on-demand personal assistant that simplifies life, helping people quickly find the services and goods they need based on what they like, where they are, and what they are doing. The Rearden Personal Assistant is based on the Rearden Commerce Platform, which connects users instantly with the world's largest ecosystem of more than 137,000 trusted merchants and third-party applications providers. The Rearden Personal Assistant also helps thousands of companies save money by consistently guiding employees to preferred suppliers offering negotiated discounts and helping them make smarter purchase decisions. With Rearden Commerce, the power of the intelligent Web is finally realized. Rearden Commerce is headquartered in Foster City, CA. For more information, visit www.reardencommerce.com. We are looking for an Interaction Designer to be an integral part of our User Experience team to create compelling and innovative experiences for our web-based and mobile products. This position requires critical thinking, organizational skills and creativity in solving highly complex problems. You will work in cross-functional teams that include research, content management, visual design and front-end development, as well as product managers, marketing, software engineers and QA. You also need to be able to advocate for and employ user experience practices through all phases of product design. This position reports to the Creative Director, User Experience. Responsibilities: 1. Understand customer and partner needs, as well as business and functional requirements 2. Work closely with the product management team to define product requirements 3. ... Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:00:02 +0100 887884 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62141 Cidney Carver from the SocialNomics blog has compiled and posted a chart with user numbers for more than 20 social sites. In a brief intro Carver writes that the sites listed are, "networks like Facebook, while others focus on a niche like photos, country, age, dating, etc." This means social sites like YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr, and e-Harmony [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:03:00 +0100 887947 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/11/22/21st-century-education-is-the-real-reform/ For National Day of Blogging for Real Reform day, I’m re-sharing my HuffingtonPost article from a couple of weeks ago, 21st Century Education is the Real Reform. We need to honor and listen to the stories of innovative educators like the ones mentioned in my post above (and their students) around the globe–and instead of fostering an atmosphere of negativity towards the teaching profession, honor the creativity, dedication and ingenuity of those teachers and the many more who are innovating but perhaps aren’t blogging about their experiences. The real reform?  Really listening to and respecting the voices of educators, and believing in their stories.  Believing testing and achievement scores aren’t even the right question and listening to teachers who know so. Ask them, they’re out there.  And they have ideas to share.  Maybe then the “real reform” of envisioning the future can begin.  Thank you ASCD for asking. My previous post:  Reflective practitioners need not apply may also be of interest. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ffutura.edublogs.org%2F2010%2F11%2F22%2F21st-century-education-is-the-real-reform%2F'; addthis_title = '21st+Century+Education+is+the+Real+reform'; addthis_pub = ''; (Source: Not So Distant Future) Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:07:30 +0100 888864 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62117 The Digital Library Blog from OverDrive has announced the mobile "Virtual Branch" website provided to partners has received a makeover. The site can be used from any mobile web browser WITHOUT having to download an app. Of course, users only sees the titles available from their library. It's easy to forget that many mobile users [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:27:41 +0100 887818 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/publishing-in-the-social-world/ I spent most of last week at our Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. If you missed it, you’ll find all of the video for it here. I came away from it with two things in mind. First, Google is under attack from every angle. Sure, they’ve felt competitive pressures before but whether it’s from Facebook, Bing or some startup in a garage, I get the impression it’s more intense now than ever before. No wonder they’re giving all employees a 10% pay raise! Seriously, search is getting more social every day and tomorrow’s recommendations from people you know via Facebook are infinitely more valuable than search results from yesterday’s algorithm. That brings me to my second key takeaway from Web 2.0: The importance of a social strategy for every industry, inculding publishing. I can already hear the skeptics saying, “reading is a time of solitude, not something that’s done socially.” That’s mostly right, but it ignores at least two key areas where a social strategy can have a profound impact on the publishing industry: recommendations and remixes. Amazon pretty much pioneered the online recommendation aspect of book publishing. Everyone wants 5-star reviews of their book, but I’m pretty sure we could also agree that a trusted friend’s recommendation is even more powerful than a stranger’s. Almost every ebook purchase I make these days is because a friend suggested it. There are just too many options (and too little time!) to risk buying a dud, even if it’s only $9.99. What’s missing in the recommendation area though is a fast and easy way to share excerpts. ... Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:50:05 +0100 887799 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62115 Resource of the Week: Yahoo! Search Clues By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor Yahoo! Yahoo! now has a "trends" service. OK, so they're a little late to the party on this one -- Google, after all, launched Google Trends back in 2006 -- but now you can see what's trending on Yahoo!, as described in a blog [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:09:28 +0100 887671 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00907321011090764 Abstract: Purpose – This paper seeks to re-conceptualize Web 2.0 tools within the intellectual and theoretical frameworks currently driving changes in academic learning communities and to explore the effect of this paradigm shift on academic libraries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores an intellectually rather than technologically driven definition of Web 2.0 and its potential effect on teaching and learning in libraries. Reflections are based on paradigm shifts in learning theories implicit in the adoption and implementation of Web 2.0 technologies. The paper also discusses applications of Web 2.0 designed to improve student and faculty engagement in the research process. Findings – The paper encourages librarians to think beyond the technology and to consider how Web 2.0 can support intellectual teaching and learning objectives in an academic library. Practical implications – The paper discusses applications of Web 2.0 designed to improve student and faculty engagement in the research process. Originality/value – The paper offers insights into rethinking current conceptions of Web 2.0 based on participation in and collaboration with faculty during a summer institute session. It provides a common conceptual framework of teaching and learning theory for librarians to use when implementing Web 2.0 tools and applications. (Source: Reference Services Review : Table of Contents) Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:05:05 +0100 887601 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/cfp-microform-and-digitization-review.html CFP: Microform and Digitization Review: Preservation and Access Issues for Cultural Heritage InstitutionsBeginning with the first issue of 2011, Microform & Imaging Review will have a new name: Microform and Digitization Review Preservation and Access Issues for Cultural Heritage InstitutionsThe new name reflects the true scope of the journal and its audience. Although not peer-reviewed, the journal reaches an international audience, and articles are published soon after submission. Sample articles are available at:http://www.reference-global.com/toc/mfir/38/1The editor is seeking authors to write on variety of topics:- Case studies of innovative digitization projects (use of specialized digitization equipment, web 2.0 features, etc.)- Digitization and/or microfilm projects in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, or South America- Digital preservation- Digitization of museum collections- Digitization of special formats (videos, newspapers, maps, etc.)- Microfilm as a component of a digitization project (e.g., as a preservation format)The next two deadlines for submitting articles are January 25 and April 20.Please email queries and proposals to the journal editor, Ken Middleton, at ken.middlet@gmail.com (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 888805 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/11/20/reflective-practitioners-need-not-apply/ In a recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute signaling national educational belt-tightening, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan signaled a grim era of budget cutting for schools, while offering some insightful and not so insightful recommendations for schools to address nationwide budget shortfalls. Once again, it feels like the recent ed reform love affair with new, young teachers and disdain for teachers with master’s degrees shines through his speech. “Doing more with less will likely require reshaping teacher compensation to do more to develop, support, and reward excellence and effectiveness, and less to pay people based on paper credentials. Districts currently pay about $8 billion each year to teachers because they have masters’ degrees, even though there is little evidence teachers with masters degrees improve student achievement more than other teachers–with the possible exception of teachers who earn masters in math and science.” Despite the fact that there is research to the contrary(as well as logic), this “ed reform” pattern of bashing higher education for teachers continues. If you are a teacher, you know what you experience.  I know that my teaching was immensely affected by my master’s degree.  My degree is not just a “paper credential” handed to me–it represents six years of hard-earned knowledge that I applied to my classroom during the day while I  attended classes at night and has influenced my work ever since.  And  I know that when I see teachers in my school getting their degrees that I see a distinct change in their approach to teaching and schooling in general.   The reason–it’s about becoming a more reflective practitioner with a better understanding of one’s craft. And despite Duncan’s claims there is evidence to the contrary. ... Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:44:42 +0100 887461