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 Webcasting interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:52:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2010/03/08/mlawebcast-2/ Join your colleagues on Wednesday, March 24th from 11am-1pm (Pacific time) for the Medical Library Association (MLA) webcast Now’s the Time: Understanding the Electronic Health Record Maze and Health Sciences Librarians’ Roles.  The goal of this program is to clarify the terminology surrounding the emerging electronic health information environment and to illustrate how and why health sciences librarians can and should become engaged with the efforts to achieve the national 2014 goal of instituting an electronic health record for each person in the United States. Presenters include Margaret Bandy, AHIP; Janice Willis, Sara Pimental, AHIP; David Sweet, Elaine Alligood, Kelly Near and Annette Williams. The Pacific Northwest Region (PNR) will host the webcast at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library, LTL.  If you will join us for the webcast at UW please register at http://tinyurl.com/PNRWebcastReg. In Spokane, WA the webcast will be presented at the Riverpoint Campus, room SAC 249, hosted by the Inland Northwest Health Sciences Libraries (INWHSL). In Oregon, the webcast will be presented at the Portland State University Library in Portland, hosted by the Oregon Health & Sciences University. This entry will be updated with additional location information as it becomes available. We look forward to seeing you there! (Source: Dragonfly) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:06:58 +0100 824873 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2010/03/bird Monday, March 8, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (kglemaud@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:30:00 +0100 824524 http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2010/03/05/mla-webcast/ We at the GMR are pleased to sponsor webcast sites across our region for the March 24, 2010, MLA Webcast: Now’s The Time: Understanding The Electronic Health Record Maze And Health Science Librarians’ Roles The complete list of sponsored sites is available at: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/mlawebcastsites.html.  Please contact the site directly if you wish to attend. Find information about [...] (Source: The Cornflower) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:36:45 +0100 824097 http://gnomicutterance.livejournal.com/43496.html I find it aggravating that WebAIM will be presenting at this year's CSUN (International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference) on "The Myth of the Typical Screen Reader User", since its representatives on the WebAIM mailing list have made it very clear that they believe there IS a typical screen reader user: a computer illiterate technophobe with total lack of agency who needs to be handheld for all computer use.I also find it aggravating that CSUN isn't broadcasting any of the sessions. (You can charge people to see a webcast, you know!) Sure, they do seem to do a pretty good job for attendees with disabilities on site, but a lot of people with disabilities find it difficult to travel, you know? Not to mention how many people with disabilities have lower incomes than their able-bodied peers. A twitter feed is not a broadcast.(This is mirrored from an original post at Dreamwidth where there are comments. You can leave a comment here or over there. (Source: Ramblings on Librarianship, Technology, and Academia) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:18:42 +0100 823937 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/04/gao-launches-%e2%80%9cwatchdog-report%e2%80%9d-podcast-series/ GAO Launches “Watchdog Report” Podcast Series As part of its ongoing efforts to utilize emerging technologies to help carry out its mission, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has launched an audio podcast series titled “GAO’s Watchdog Report.” These five-minute audio files feature interviews with GAO officials on significant issues and new reports, and are easily downloadable for listening on computers or mobile music devices. … To date, GAO has released five episodes of the Watchdog Report: March 3, 2010: On GAO’s latest review of the use and accountability of Recovery Act funding and how jobs created or retained by the Act are being reported, featuring an interview with Chris Mihm, Managing Director of Strategic Issues February 26, 2010: On how the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard are handling sexual assault prevention and response efforts, featuring an interview with Brenda Farrell, Director of Defense Capabilities and Management February 3, 2010: On key challenges facing NASA, featuring an interview with Cristina Chaplain, Director of Acquisition Sourcing and Management January 6, 2010: On the 2010 Census, featuring an interview with Robert Goldenkoff, Director of Strategic Issues January 6, 2010: On the financial condition of the U.S. Postal Service, featuring an interview with Phil Herr, Director of Physical Infrastructure Users can listen to all episodes of GAO’s Watchdog Report podcast and subscribe to receive future episodes from a feed at GAO’s website (http://www.gao.gov/podcast/watchdog.xml). The Watchdog Report is also available free through Apple’s iTunes store. Source: Government Accountability Office (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:55:57 +0100 823495 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/03/cfp-acrl-conference-2011-declaration-of.html There is a call for papers for the Association of College and Research Libraries conference that takes place in Philadelphia, USA, March 30 - April 2 2011, with the title A Declaration of Interdependence. Themes are: Diversify our Interdependence: Building Relationships; Evolutions in Higher Education; Harness Lightning: Technology in the Service of Libraries; Inventing Your Library’s Future; The Shape of Tomorrow: Liberating Collection Development; Unite with Users: Reinventing the User Experience; You Say You Want a Revolution: Next Generation Librarianship. Contributed Paper, Panel Session, Preconference, and Workshop proposals are due by May 10, 2010; and Zed Shed presentation, Poster Session, Roundtable Discussion, and Virtual Conference Webcast proposals are due November 1, 2010. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/national/2011/index.cfmPhoto by Sheila Webber: more student election campaign publicity. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823354 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/n_n.html The Library of Congress has the webcast by Michelle Thaller Galileo: 400 Years of the Telescope.In 1609, Galileo constructed the first powerful telescope and started observing the heavens, which led to many monumental discoveries. He published his initial findings on the moon and the stars in 1610 in a brief treatise titled "Sidereus Nuncius" ("Starry Messenger"). An original printing of this publication is held by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. NASA scientist Michelle Thaller discusses "Galileo: 400 Years of the Telescope." This illustrated lecture, the first in a series of programs in 2010, is presented through a partnership between the Library's Science, Technology and Business Division and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.It lasts 65 minutes. (Source: New) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:25:35 +0100 823814 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2010/03/02/rendezvous-scanner-tips-and-tricks/ Are you interesting in improving your document delivery service through better performance by your scanner?  Don’t miss this informative session. Join our free RML Rendezvous webcast on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 1pm Pacific Time (2pm Mountain, noon Alaska) at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/rendezvous: Not Through a Glass, Darkly: Tips and Tricks for Optimal Scanner Settings  by Mary Van Court, Library Supervisor at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library. As part of our Federal agency services regarding electronic and information technology resources being accessible to people with disabilities, closed captioning is now available on this and all future RML Rendezvouswebcasts. If you are hearing impaired and in need of closed captioning, please contact Patricia Devine at devine@u.washington.edu by Monday, March 8 so we may gladly arrange for this service. We look forward to seeing you at the webcast! For more information please visit How do I connect to the Rendezvous? to test your computer connection. (Source: Dragonfly) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:53:52 +0100 824874 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/03/karahalios Tuesday, March 2, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:30:00 +0100 822863 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/lessig Thursday, February 25, 6:00-7:30 pmFrom 7:30—9:00 pm: Discussion groups: hang out, enjoy some refreshments, and think about the future of online video Access the webcast at 6:00pm ET by visiting http://freeculture.org/lessig/ Austin North Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School (Map)read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:00:00 +0100 821458 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/25/online-less-than-3-hours-live-webcast-a-lecture-by-lawrence-lessig/ Professor Lessig will be giving a 45 minute lecture on fair use, politics, and online video followed by a 30 minute Q&A. The webcast/”wireside chat”) will be live beginning at: 6:00 PM (EST)/3:00 PM (PST)/GMT -5 at http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig. From the Web Site: The event will be moderated by Elizabeth Stark of the Open Video Alliance. Questions can be submitted using the hashtag #wireside. This is a talk about copyright in a digital age, and the role (and importance) of a doctrine like “fair use.” Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video. As a medium, online video will be most powerful when it is fluid, like a conversation. Like the rest of the internet, online video must be designed to encourage participation, not just passive consumption. Today’s lecture, conversation, and live local events are being organized by the Open Video Alliance. Want to Watch and Participate With Others? Live viewing events and other local activities have been setup around the globe. Here’s a list and map. Technical The event will be streamed using Threora. The OVA suggests using Firefox to view. More info about browsers can be found on this wiki page. More info and access to the lecture at: http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig The Wireside Chat is made possible with the support of iCommons and the Ford Foundation Source: Open Video Alliance (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:01:54 +0100 821439 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=32774 Hearing — Countdown to Census Day: Progress Report on the Census Bureau’s Preparedness for the Enumeration (PDFs) Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs (Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security) + The Honorable Robert M. Groves [view testimony] Director, U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Department of Commerce + Todd Zinser [view testimony] Inspector General U.S. Department of Commerce + Robert Goldenkoff [view testimony] Director, Strategic Issues U.S. Government Accountability Office + Archived webcast (Source: Docuticker) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:13:23 +0100 821402 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/09IEsbJmMDE/ Gabriel Pérez, Presidente del  Free Culture@ UPRM, invita a la siguiente actividad: Free Culture @ UPRM te invita a la charla por el distinguido Lawrence Lessig donde se va a discutir los temas  derechos de autor, el fair use y el vídeo en la Internet. Vamos a tener refrigerios y pizza al final de la actividad, para los que estuvieron presentes. Después de la actividad vamos a presentar algunos de los vídeos de Internet mas populares y vamos a discutir cual ha sido el efecto de la revolución del Internet en la democracia, la libre expresión, la industria de los medios y los derechos de autor. Dónde: Stefani 203 Cuándo: jueves 25 de febrero del 2010 a las 6:30 PM Para más información visita: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20481 uprm.freeculture.org freeculture.org Compartir con del.icio. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:02:41 +0100 821459 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/hu8b1m8SEn4/focus-on-metadata-jennifer-bowen-on-the-new-metadata-environment.html In this post, Jennifer Bowen discusses the implications of Karen Coyle's January issue of Library Technology Reports, and places it in the current context of Metadata librarianship.--Daniel A. Freeman A couple of years ago, while in the thick of RDA development, I started hearing some pretty ominous statements from some of my metadata colleagues.   They were saying that if libraries are to remain relevant in the future, then library metadata MUST be transformed to enable it to function within a web environment.  They felt that if RDA fails to make this happen, then library catalogs and cataloging are doomed to oblivion.  Ouch – no pressure there!  Amid other equally strident voices warning that we shouldn’t stray too much from AACR2 and ISBD, I found these calls for drastic change to be more than a little perplexing! I admit that I first decided to listen seriously to the folks demanding change, not because I found the arguments to be immediately understandable and compelling, but because of the great respect that I have for the individuals (Karen Coyle and Diane Hillmann among them) who were making them.   And after listening for a while, the arguments DID become more compelling.  And the more I tried to understand what they were saying, the more compelling their explanations became. In her January 2010 issue of Library Technology Reports, “Understanding the Semantic Web:  Bibliographic Data and Metadata,” Karen Coyle has now written the explanation that I needed two years ago!  Thank you, Karen, for writing something so free of confusing jargon, and so full of real life examples to guide everyone through this difficult topic. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:18:31 +0100 821238 http://cubgovpubs.blogspot.com/2010/02/toyota-hearing-takes-place-today.html The House Committee on Oversight and Reform's Hearing on the Toyota Recall is happening right now. Catch streaming video of the hearing on the Committee's website, either by going to the Committee's home page (if you're watching it today) or going to the calendar entry and clicking Connect to the Live Webcast. The hearing is intended to look at the U.S. government’s response to Toyota's recall of many models and to better understand the equipment problems and their resolutions (see our related blog post from a few weeks ago). For non-government news coverage prior to the hearing, see the NPR article "Toyota CEO Faces Harsh Spotlight on Capitol Hill."It's really interesting to be able to watch the hearings live on the web, but what if you want to read transcripts of old congressional hearings, such as "Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 : Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate" or "The Future of DOE's Automotive Research Programs: Hearing Before the Committee on Science, House of Representatives"? Hearings dating back to 1995 are freely available on GPO Access. If you're on campus or have off-campus access to our databases, you can find electronic versions of congressional hearings, dating as far back as 1824, in LexisNexis Congressional. All hearings are searchable in Chinook, the library catalog, which is accessible to all (search for print or electronic versions of the hearings).To find additional congressional materials, take a look at our guide. (Source: Government Publications Library--University of Colorado at Boulder) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821220 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/schnapp Tuesday, February 23, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.From Jeffrey:  read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:30:00 +0100 820951 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2010/02/zebrowitz Monday, February 22, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:30:00 +0100 820432 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/arlisnap/~3/V0su3Iv7lk8/ Don’t forget that ARLIS/NA’s Chat Series is offering up a great discussion later this week! I personally recommend “Marketing Today’s Academic Library” to anyone who is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: [ArLiSNAP]) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:36:08 +0100 821748 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6720038.html?rssid=191 (Source: LJ Tech Blog) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:21:00 +0100 820689 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/RtFwt7pBc5A/ In a little more than a week, on March 2nd, I’ll be doing an online webinar for ACRL entitled Wave upon Wave: Navigating the New Communication. The goal is to explore and explain Google Wave, and look at use cases for libraries. Wave lost a lot of luster immediately after the launch, but I still think there’s a ton of promise and potential there. Here’s the learning outcomes that we’ll be trying to get to: Participants in this webcast will come away with an understanding of the basic functionality of Google Wave. As well, they should be able to envision multiple communicative uses for Wave within their library, including both internal and external communications. We’ll probably also talk a bit about Buzz, and the ways in which the various Google properties relate to one another. I hope to see you there!Similar Posts: Google Wave and Igor Catching the Wave 5 Weeks Google Voice Mobile Browser edition Structured Blogging (Source: Pattern Recognition) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:42:39 +0100 821051 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2010/02/17/tuesdays-223-berkman-lunch-the-augmented-museum-tapping-technology-and-participatory-models/ Tuesday’s (2/23) luncheon at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, The Augmented Museum, discusses how museums can tap technology and use more participatory models. We librarians and Web site builders should be able to garner ideas about how to present items from our collections or other kinds of information online while encouraging site visitor interaction. Jeffrey Schnapp, Berkman Fellow and Pierotti Chair in Italian and Comparative Literature at Stanford, describes his talk: “My talk is concerned with my ongoing work as a scholar/curator and technologist on the notion of the augmented museum. The phrase “augmented museum” refers to three complementary developments: –a digital era re-imagining of the traditional bricks-and-mortar museum that explores the possibilities of linking interior exhibition spaces to the exterior environment either via innovative partnerships between institutions or the curation of public spaces as an extended feature of museum-based exhibitions –new approaches to the display of physical collections that allow for enhanced access, interactivity, and interaction with the scholarly community –experimentation with “bottom up” participatory models of museum-based education as a complement to traditional “top down” approaches My talk will map the overall contours of the augmented museum and look at a concrete experiment: The Tunnels, a 7000 square meter installation in Trento, Italy, where an abandoned industrial site has been repurposed as an experimental history museum with an island in Second Life serving as a support and learning space.” Like all Berkman lunches, an RSVP [rsvp at cyber . law . harvard . edu] is required from people hoping to attend in person; the event will be webcast and quite possibly archived for online playing later. (Source: J's Scratchpad) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:19:38 +0100 819203 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/wR6eYH4Rwug/ Things will be a little different for MLA’s 2010 Annual Meeting and it all centers around keeping members connected. MLA President Connie Schardt’s email to Medlib-l and her post on MLA Connections, discusses our Keynote Speaker, Daniel Pink author of “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future.” She describes the book as a ”ground breaking guide to surviving, thriving, and finding meaning in an outsourced, automated, upside down world.” As Connie mentions, Pink is a little outside of the box for MLA Keynote speakers, because “for the first time, the National Program Committee has selected a common book.”  Additionally, Pink wants to try to connect with us (the target audience for his keynote speech) before, during and after the meeting. Specifically he wants to hear from us BEFORE his talk so he can “frame his presentation within our context.” So take a few minutes and go to Dan Pink’s invitation to MLA ‘10  and share what you would like to discussed at the conference.  Several librarians have already shared ideas, and you can browse through them and share your own.  Another change to MLA is connectivity.  This meeting will be more online allowing for more people to attend virtually and view things remotely.  This is the first time the annual meeting will have an online conference community portal.  According to Eric Schnell who will be helping out with coordinating the portal, “conference community is an online experience being built around MLA 2010 that allows attendees (both in person or virtual) to interact and share through various online social tools. Some of the content on the site will even be made available for association members that are not attending the conference. ... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:13:07 +0100 819142 http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/02/looking-forward-to-the-techset/ Wikis for Libraries Hi everyone! I’m excited to let you know that my book, Wikis for Libraries is due out next month! It’s part of a great collection of books, The Tech Set, edited by Ellyssa Kroski and published by Neal-Schuman (as a joint project with LITA). This book is for those who have been thinking about implementing a wiki, but haven’t taken the plunge yet. It’s also for those who have, but didn’t find the results they were hoping for. The book covers wikis you can sign up for on the web, and those you host yourself. We’ll talk about a number of different problems that wikis can solve, and walk through the steps to make sure your wiki is a successful one. It’s been an especially fun project to work on; I’ve been using wikis to solve problems for the past five or six years, and gave my first presentation on them in 2006. The world of wikis looks very different today from those early days, and it’s nice to be able to pull together the most recent thinking on wikis into one concise guide. I’m looking forward to the whole series. Check out the interesting titles and great authors! There’s something on the list for everyone: Next Gen Library Catalogs by Marshall Breeding Mobile Technology and Libraries by Jason Griffey Microblogging and Lifestreaming in Libraries by Robin Hastings Library Videos and Webcasts by Sean Robinson Wikis for Libraries by Lauren Pressley Technology Training in Libraries by Sarah Houghton-Jan A Social Networking Primer for Libraries by Cliff Landis Library Camps and Unconferences by Steve Lawson Gaming in Libraries by Kelly Czarnecki Effective Blogging for Libraries, by Connie Crosby And as you might guess (and hope for), there’s also a corresponding wiki with additional information and updates. Anyway, I was excited about the project, and wanted to make sure you knew about it, too. ... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:31:49 +0100 818932 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/16/youtube-celebrates-its-fifth-birthday/ We’re a two days late with this one. Sorry. From a Los Angeles Times Article: When YouTube first started five years ago, achieving those core principles was much more difficult. The company was competing in a space where uploading video to the Web was considered more of a headache than a desired practice. Worst of all, inherent startup costs related to video were extremely high, which meant YouTube was forced to secure venture funding to get up and running. In November 2005, it did just that with the help of Sequoia Capital, a well-respected venture-capital firm. With funds finally procured, YouTube officially launched in December 2005. YouTube grew at an astounding rate. Web users uploaded personal videos to share with friends. As they did so, several videos went “viral,” a Web term that grew in popularity, thanks to YouTube. By July 2006, more than 65,000 videos were added to the site each day and over 100 million videos were being viewed. As successful as user-generated content was, YouTube’s popularity and explosive growth was due in main part to the copyrighted material that users uploaded to the site. Everything from “Saturday Night Live” skits to movies were added to YouTube, giving viewers their first opportunity to have all their favorite professional content at their disposal whenever they fired up their computers. Meanwhile, copyright holders were seething. They could have sued YouTube and requested their copy-protected clips be taken down, but the video site was losing money at an astounding rate as bandwidth costs continued to pile up. Suing YouTube at the time would have cost copyright holders huge legal fees and would have likely ended in no financial gain. All that changed in November 2006 when Google announced that it had acquired YouTube for a whopping $1.65 billion in stock. It was one of the most talked-about acquisitions in Web history. ... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:19:22 +0100 818924 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/leskovec Tuesday, February 16, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:30:00 +0100 818803 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2010/02/16/3649 The Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) is seeking papers to include in a January 2011 focus issue devoted to the history of the health sciences. Papers must meet guidelines for submission to JMLA. Deadline for all submissions is June 7, 2010. The following topical themes are deemed appropriate: history of medical libraries and/or librarianship; history of the book, printing, reading as it relates to the health sciences, and medical bibliography; history of special collections in health care professions (e.g., nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine); or articles related to the professional concerns of librarians in managing historical collections (innovations, outreach, best practices). Those interested should send manuscripts in MS Word or MS Wordcompatible format as email attachments to the issue organizer, (mailto:flannery@uab.edu?subject=JMLA_Focus_Issue) Michael A. Flannery. Related posts Weltkongress in Brisbane: Programm steht! (0) Website for library partnerships (0) Webcast: Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices (0) Tutorial: Medical Information on the Internet (0) Tony McSean ist neuer Vorsitzender der MLA International Cooperation Section (0) (Source: medinfo) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:34:08 +0100 818630 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6718984.html?rssid=191 Lots of practical advice regarding useful sites and products. (Source: Library Journal News) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:33:39 +0100 818337 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/13/have-you-seen-youtubes-new-page-layout-interested-in-trying-it-out/ YouTube is testing what we think is a much improved new page layout. We like it, a lot. It’s much much cleaner and easier on the eyes. If you haven’t automatically been selected to “test” and use the new YouTube page, no worries. Simply click on this link and the new layout should appear. Don’t like it? Want to go back. Once again, no worries. Look for the “Return to the old YouTube” link that’s located on the top-right side of the page. Enjoy. (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:34:12 +0100 817989 http://acrlog.org/2010/02/12/give-me-a-chat-box/ If you haven’t been taking advantage of webcasts/webinars (whichever you like to call them), you probably will be soon enough. When John Shank and I started doing webcasts at the Blended Librarians Community back in 2005 there weren’t many opportunity for academic librarians to take advantage of webcasts for professional development. Now there are so many being offered you’d hardly have time to attend most of them – and the good news is that many are free. Who’s offering webcasts? Well, you can start with ACRL – they’ve got a whole e-learning series of online seminars and chats. Then you have offerings from organizations such as WebJunction, the Alliance Library System, SirsiDynix, Library Journal (caution – some are thinly veiled product promotions) and of course, ALA – and don’t overlook webcasts from EDUCAUSE and other higher education organizations. I added a good webcast from EDUCAUSE about two weeks ago on mobile platforms for library services. Sometimes I like to attend webcasts just to experience the different delivery platforms being used, and to take in any new presenter techniques for delivering a webcast. As a veteran of multiple platforms and many presenters, I tend to have high standards and can be a harsh critic when the webcast falls short of my expectations. Just because it’s free doesn’t mean it has to take shortcuts. The tools for delivering a robust webcast experience are out there, and they support all types of possibilities for dynamic, interactive online programming. Yesterday I attended an ALA-sponsored webcast (ALA Techsource and LITA) on the ALA Midwinter Tech Trends program. The idea was to replay some of the original content with a mostly new set of speakers. The speakers were all quite knowledgeable about the topics, they had good content, they were professional and the technology worked flawlessly for me. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817799 http://acrlog.org/2010/02/10/keeping-up-with-learning-technologists/ On Thursday May 21, 2009 John Shank and I had the pleasure of co-hosting an important webcast event held by the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community. Josh Kim and Barbara Knauff, Senior Learning Technologists at Dartmouth College co-presented a webcast titled “Becoming an Educational Change Agent”. The presentation was based on an article Kim and Knauff published in EDUCAUSE Review titled “Business Cards for the Future” in which they discussed how the role of the instructional technologist had evolved over the previous decade and how it was evolving further into something new that they termed the “educational change agent”. What made the webcast significant is that it celebrated one of those rare occasions when academic librarians gathered to listen to and learn from their learning technologist colleagues. To be certain, many of us have occasional interactions with the learning technologists on our campuses, but far less frequently do we engage outside of the workplace to discuss our common issues, and learn how we can work together to help our faculty and students achieve academic success. Back then, I would say that Kim, who is a Senior Learning Technologist at Dartmouth College in Hanover NH, was a relative unknown to academic librarians. As we head into 2010, that may no longer be the case. In his role as the learning technology blogger over at Inside Higher Ed, Kim is becoming more familiar to the academic library community, especially after two columns that raised some questions and controversies and got quite a bit of feedback and attention from the academic library community. While Kim took a few shots from commenters who might have thought we’d all be better off if Kim stuck to what he knows best, I have to praise him for stimulating some conversation between our two camps. ... Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817012 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2010/02/09/accessibility/ The hands of a deaf and blind woman who is learning to use a computer. (image by cobalt123) For people with disabilities, surfing the web can be a very frustrating experience. Many websites are developed without the special needs of people with visual impairments, hearing loss, and/or mobility challenges in mind. Here are a few simple steps you can take today that will improve the accessibility of your organization’s webpages. Use an accessibility checker A good first step to making your webpages more accessible is to run them through one or more online accessibility checkers. Enter a URL and you will get back a report suggesting areas for improvement. Here are three freely available accessibility checkers: Functional Accessibility Evaluator – from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Generates a very readable report with pass, warning, and fail indicators for various page elements. W3C Web validator service – checks the markup of your webpages and delivers a line-by-line report of inconsistencies and accessibility problems WAVE – Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool from WebAIM. Delivers an annotated version of your webpage highlighting areas for improvement. Use Alt text to describe images Visually impaired visitors to your website may be using special software to have the page contents read out loud to them.  In the html code, you should include Alt text to describe any meaningful images on the page. “Alt” is an attribute of the <img> tag. For example: <img src=”/images/PNRStaff-06-24-08.jpg” alt=”group photo of the Regional Medical Library staff”> For complex images (such as charts and graphs) that cannot be easily summarized in a few words, compose a longer summary on a separate, plain webpage and use the <longdesc> tag to point to that page. For example: <img src=”/images/PNRStaff-06-24-08. ... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:39:04 +0100 818636 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2010/02/09/berkman-lunch-beyond-onlineoffline-information-access-public-spaces-the-boundaries-of-visibility-for-queer-youth-in-the-rural-us/ Today’s Berkman Lunch presentation Beyond online/offline: Information access, public spaces, & the boundaries of visibility for queer youth in the rural US ties in nicely with an interest I explored in library school about access to material about homosexuality in libraries. Mary L. Gray, professor of communication and culture at Indiana University, draws “on her experiences working for 2 years in rural parts of Kentucky and in small towns along its borders[.] Mary will map out how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies make use of social media and local resources to combat the marginalization they contend with in their own communities as well as the erasure they face in popular representations of gay and lesbian life and the agendas of national gay and lesbian advocacy groups.” Starting around 6:30 pm on the 10th floor of One Memorial Drive at the Microsoft Research portion of that building, Mary will be giving another presentation danah boyd is hosting (RSVP required). What follows are my live notes from Mary’s lunch presentation. Berkman webcasts these talks live and puts the audio online for later consumption. Policy making often attempts to contain adolescent sexuality. Queer studies could be central to policy work. Rural youth rely “on the blurring of offline/online performance of social visibility to combat: -’digital inequalities’ that structure their access to media and information -broader politics of visibility that frame [the youth as being] out-of-place” (Harvard kicked me off their network and made me re-register for access, so I missed a bit of notetaking.) Mary worked with a group of about 34 youths in Appalachia for her research. Linchpins for visibility: critical mass of people, capital (donor/support base for political action), and accessible “safe” places. ... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:34:52 +0100 816732 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/gray Tuesday, February 9, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:30:00 +0100 816814 http://lisnews.org/frontlines_ebook_wars_beyond_book_special_report This Wednesday, Feb. 10th from 2PM – 3PM EST, Copyright Clearance Center’s Chris Kenneally will be hosting a special Beyond the Book live podcast (http://beyondthebookcast.com/live-webcast/) examining the eBook Wars, which are taking shape with MacMillan challenging Amazon and the rise of eReaders and the iPad. During the podcast, Chris and his panelists will look at all sides of the e-book story and what future battles may bring to the print and digital marketplace. The podcast will air live on BlogTalkRadio: http://bit.ly/drJipN Joining Chris are: • Andrew Albanese, features editor at Publishers Weekly; • Sara Nelson, Books Editor, “O” Magazine; • Brian O’Leary, Founder & Principal, Magellan Media Partners; and • Mike Shatzkin, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company, Inc., During the podcast, Chris will also be taking phone calls at 646-378-1949. (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:19:58 +0100 816416 http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2010/02/08/gmr-sponsoring-mla-webcast-sites-2/ The GMR is offering to sponsor a number of webcast sites for the upcoming MLA Webcast:  “Now’s The Time: Understanding the Electronic Health Record Maze and Health Science Librarians’ Roles” to be held on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, from 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m., central time. Visit: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/mlawebcast.html for detailed information on how to become a sponsored site. The GMR will cover the [...] (Source: The Cornflower) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:07:53 +0100 817061 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=32195 Keeping Foreign Corruption Out of the United States: Four Case Histories Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has scheduled a hearing, “Keeping Foreign Corruption Out of the United States: Four Case Histories,” on Thursday, February 4, 2010, at 9:30 a.m., in Room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The Subcommittee hearing will examine how some politically powerful foreign officials, their relatives, or close associates – referred to in international agreements as “Politically Exposed Persons” or PEPs – have used the services of U.S. professionals and U.S. financial institutions to bring millions of dollars in suspect funds into the United States to advance their interests. Four case histories will illustrate how some PEPs have used U.S. lawyers, realtors, escrow agents, lobbyists, bankers, and others to circumvent U.S. anti-money laundering and anti-corruption safeguards. It will also look at how some U.S. professionals have actively helped PEPs avoid bank scrutiny or facilitated suspect transactions with no questions asked. The hearing will also examine whether U.S. policies and practices to combat foreign corruption and money laundering need strengthening. Witnesses will include government agencies, including the State Department, Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), as well as lawyers, a realtor, and representatives of financial institutions. + Staff report (PDF; 2.2 MB) Archived webcast and witness testimonies also available. (Source: Docuticker) Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:03:52 +0100 816101 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TravelinLibrarian/~3/E1GzDjF74sE/ There’s not much to say here other than “Don’t try this at home kiddies, we’re professionals.” http://youtube.com/watch?v=et_MmlTxMXA (Source: Travelin' Librarian) Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:01:32 +0100 815896 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/j2Lw5w7I6pc/library-press-partnerships-in-action.html Library-press partnerships in action: The new University of California Publishing Services - A SPARC Webcast - February 17, 2010 - Registration is free, but required. RSVP by February 15 (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:14:30 +0100 815039 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/04/paid-vs-free-content-publishing-pains-apple-tablets-and-all-that/ Paid vs. Free Content, Publishing Pains, Apple Tablets and All That … Two recent events have rocked the publishing world. First, The New York Times, which many regard as the newspaper of record in the U.S., said it would abandon the practice of providing free online content and start charging regular readers beginning in 2011. And second, Apple’s much-hyped tablet — the iPad — made its appearance. What implications will the Times’ decision have for newspaper publishers and other providers of free online content? How will the iPad re-define what a book means, as well as how it is produced, marketed and delivered? Peter S. Fader, a marketing professor at Wharton and co-director of the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative, and Stephen J. Kobrin, a management professor at Wharton and editor of Wharton School Publishing, weigh in on how these developments could reshape publishing. Audio available. Source: Knowledge@Wharton (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:01:42 +0100 814914 http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/sparc-webcast-library-press.html Library-press partnerships in action: The new University of California Publishing ServicesA SPARC WebcastWednesday, February 17, 20101:00 – 2:00PM ESTFree, but registration required.Subscribe to OA Librarian (Source: OA Librarian) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 815806 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2010/02/02/rendezvouswaterpump/ Pump Handle by cindy47452 What is public health? What isn’t public health? Who are public health workers, and what do they do? Join us for a free RML Rendezvous webcast on Wednesday, February 10th 2010 at 1pm Pacific Time (2pm Mountain, noon Alaska) at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/rendezvous. Gather Around the Water Pump: Public Health Resources and Outreach Ideas will be presented by our Technology Outreach Coordinator Alison Aldrich, who also has a Master of Public Health degree, and give you a better understanding about the vital role of public health in our communities. We will discuss ideas for library-public health partnerships and review relevant information resources. As part of our Federal agency services regarding electronic and information technology resources being accessible to people with disabilities, closed captioning is now available on this and all future RML Rendezvous webcasts. If you are hearing impaired and in need of closed captioning, please contact Nikki Dettmar at snydern@u.washington.edu by noon Pacific time on Friday, February 5th so we may gladly arrange for this service. We look forward to seeing you at the webcast! For more information please visit How do I connect to the Rendezvous? to test your computer connection. (Source: Dragonfly) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:47:11 +0100 816552 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/karaganis Tuesday, February 2, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:30:00 +0100 814489 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/ha7l4MXECI4/ From the press release: F+W Media announced today the launch of its Digital Book World Community, a new industry resource for book publishers and publishing professionals offering educational and informational resources designed to help them successfully navigate the digital transition. The Community springs forth from the successful inaugural annual conference which was held last week. Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Director of Programming and Business Development, will continue to head the community, in close collaboration with a newly formed Community Advisory Board. A conference recap, schedule of upcoming seminars, WEBcasts and weekly roundtables; and regularly updated news and commentary from industry professionals can be found at the newly relaunched www.digitalbookworld.com. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:51:08 +0100 814405 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Davidrothmannet/~3/bav_6VeBC60/ I finally broke down and bought a Motorola DROID from Verizon several weeks ago- that’s the new phone that runs Google’s Android 2.0.1 Operating System. Thus far, I don’t regret the decision. AT&T’s coverage where I live stinks, so as much as I like the iPhone, it just wasn’t an option for me. Fortunately, the DROID does most things as well as the iPhone, and does some things much better than the iPhone. I agree with most of the accolades and criticisms you’ve probably already read about the DROID. Things I Like: The touchscreen is large, responsive, and looks terrific. Syncing of my Gmail contacts, my work contacts, and my Facebook contacts is pretty darn great. I always have ALL my contact information on me- and it is updated whenever Facebook, my Gmail contacts, or the Address Books at my place of work are updated. The “open” model is appealing. Even without having a rooted phone, I have *much* more control over the device than with an iPhone. If there’s any file I want on my Droid, I can put it there without jumping through any hoops. I have complete control over the file structure. iPhone/iTouch users has undoubtedly been annoyed by how strictly Apple controls what can (and cannot) be moved over the device’s USB cable and have to use third party applications to move data from an iPod/iTouch to a new computer- even if that data has no DCM. Customization-I can tweak so much about the DROID’s interface that it took me several days to explore a lot of options and make some decisions about how I wanted it laid out. As my continued use of it reveals new/different/unexpected needs, I can quickly and easily make changes. ... Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:59:01 +0100 814341 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/reidenberg Monday, February 1, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:30:00 +0100 814192 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/01/webcast-fiction-collections-at-the-library-of-congress/ This webcast runs 68 minutes and was recorded on 10/23/2009. Access the web page and webcast. Discussion of the current fiction collections of the Library of Congress with an emphasis on the papers of National Book Award winners in the Manuscript Division. Four Library of Congress veterans present “Fiction at the Library of Congress.” The program and discussion focus on the history and future directions of the Library’s American literature collections and highlight an online feature focusing on the fiction collections of the Library of Congress, available at www.read.gov. Speakers make special note of the strong Library of Congress holdings of prominent National Book Award Fiction winners Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud. Speaker Biography: John Cole is director of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Alice Birney is a literary specialist in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Guy Lamolinara is the communications specialist in the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Mark Dimunation is chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress. From the Series: Books & Beyond Source: Library of Congress (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:21:46 +0100 814215 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/YoXYoFWoQ_c/survey-of-higher-education-faculty.html "The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Evaluation of Library Efforts Index, Preserve and Catalog Blogs, Websites, Email Archives and other Cyber Resources presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the usefulness and quality of academic library efforts to further scholarship based on internet sources such as websites, blogs, listervs, social networking sites, online ads and other internet resources. The report presents highly detailed data on how faculty use blogs, websites, social networking sites, email archives, listservs, webcasts and podcasts, ezines, online ads and other cyber resources in scholarship. It also highlights how faculty rate the efforts of academic libraries to index, preserve and catalog these resources. In addition, the report discusses other pertinent trends, such as the degree of use of web archiving software" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:21:04 +0100 813515 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/GXw3VCLAXP4/ Are you struggling to keep up with new technologies, or are you pretty tech savvy and like to try and stay up to date with things?  Library Journal’s Webcast Alert just alerted me to a free 1 hour webcast on Tuesday February 9, 2010  at 3:00pm EST called, Gadgets and Tools and Apps, Oh My! Two panelists, Tina Hertel and Karla Marsteller will be discussing updates on search, communication, and graphics applications and gadgets for the library.  Bummer, you say you are at the reference desk at that time, or it is your day off because you are working the weekend?  Never fear, the webcast will be archived for one year following the intial broadcast.  Registration is FREE! Tina is a Librarian/Help Desk Analyst at E.W. Fairchild Martindale Library, Lehigh University.  Karla is the Excutive Director at Palmyra Public Library.  I realize neither of these librarians are medical librarians so some of the things they might talk about won’t be applicable to us in the medical world.  But there are a lot of tech things out there I am sure they will mention a few things that will be interesting and helpful to us.  Oh and did I mention that all it costs is one hour of your time?! Pretty good deal if you can come away with a nugget or two of information. (Source: The Krafty Librarian) Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:03:12 +0100 813299 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/nbU1CvBSiU0/reminder-ut-school-of-laws-conference-on-judicial-biography-and-the-supreme-court-streamed-live-tomo.html The UT School of Law will host a Conference on Judicial Biography and the Supreme Court on Friday, January 29, 2010, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Held in memory of Professor Roy M. Mersky, the longtime director of the... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 813036 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/n_n.html February 10, 2010 7 - 8 pm MyMoon webcast with Francis FrenchFrancis is the Director of Education at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. He is the co-author of two award-winning space history books, Into That Silent Sea, and In the Shadow of the Moon. These books chronicle the first eight years of American and Russian manned spaceflight, focusing on the human stories of the earliest spacefarers. (Source: New) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:14:05 +0100 813030 http://cubgovpubs.blogspot.com/2010/01/watch-congressional-hearing-on-aig.html You may have read in today's New York Times about the House of Representatives' grilling of U.S. Secretary of State Timothy Geithner about his role in the $85 billion federal bailout loan to American International Group (AIG) in September 2008. At the time of the financial rescue, Secretary Geithner was head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The loan protected big banks from losses, the Times article describes, "but saddled A.I.G. with a debt so crushing that the Treasury soon had to step in and provide even more rescue money." During the hearing, Geithner insisted that he was not involved in covering up any information about deals with big banks. Nevertheless, House representatives berated him for what they considered to be bad decisions. One congressman even suggested that Geithner resign from his current position."The Federal Bailout of AIG" hearing is still taking place as I am writing this blog post. See the website of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for a live webcast of the hearing. Witnesses testifying include Geithner, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Neil Barofsky of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and AIG's Elias Habayeb, among others.If you need background information after watching the hearing, take a look at our guide to Economic Crisis and Stimulus. (Source: Government Publications Library--University of Colorado at Boulder) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 812530 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/01/cohen Tuesday, January 26, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:30:00 +0100 812311 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2010/01/bailenson Monday, January 25, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (kglemaud@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:30:00 +0100 811752 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/8D5S9EKuums/tech.html Below you will see my 13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology. These are my favorite options for libraries to use as alternatives to the expensive paid services and software that we use now, usually because our parent organizations or IT departments have gone along with the mainstream, bought the expensive stuff from the well-known companies, and never blinked.  But now that we are all facing budget crunches the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades, we have a chance to show these alternatives to the decision-makers, save the organization some money, and support the open source movement at the same time. I have personally used all of these, at least in a demo setting. Most of them I use on a regular basis at work or at home. So trust me — these recommendations do not come lightly!  I think these tools are darn good, otherwise they wouldn’t have made the cut. This list has come out of a few different presentations I’ve given for public libraries recently, from Hawaii to Iowa.  Take a look, see what you want to try, and let me know how it works.  The list is not exhaustive, so I invite all of you to comment on this post and add your own favorite free web tools, software, and open source awesomeness. 1. ... Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:47:16 +0100 813673 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/bz3UpKyufH4/toughtimes.html Last week I presented a webcast for the Iowa Small Libraries Online Conference.  Despite the 7am start time for me (blast those time zone differences!) I rather enjoyed the talk.  The chat room was lit up like a Christmas tree the whole time, and we had lots of good questions at the end of the talk.  The theme of the conference was tough times, which is something I think all libraries can identify with right now.  My talk was entitled “Tough Times Make Tougher Libraries,” and I covered digital services strategies to help us act intelligently during  times of resource shortages.  I cover free web services & tools to help libraries save money, project management & planning, project success assessment strategies, and marketing ideas.  The presentation can be seen below in case you are interested too. Tough Times Make Tougher Libraries View more presentations from Sarah Houghton-Jan. (Source: LibrarianInBlack) Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:55:10 +0100 813675 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=31670 Top PRB Web Content for 2009 Source: Population Reference Bureau PRB publishes dozens of articles on population, health, and environment topics on its website each year. Of all the content we published in 2009, which topics attracted the most web visitors to our website? To find out, we ranked the articles and webcasts we posted in 2009 by the number of times they were viewed. The favorites are listed below. PRB’s annual World Population Data Sheet—along with the webcast of the press briefing of its launch and two related stories (the World Population Clock and the annual “World Population Highlights”) always attract our largest audience. The clock shows the number of births and deaths each year, month, day, hour, minute, and second. The “World Population Highlights” article about the annual Population Bulletin that accompanies the data sheet summarizes the key findings of the data sheet. Offers links to most viewed articles, most downloaded publications, most popular webcasts. (Source: Docuticker) Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:25:50 +0100 811547 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/01/22/upcoming-climate-and-clean-energy-webcasts-for-state-and-local-governments/ EPA Local Climate and Energy Webcast January 26: Clean Energy Workforce Development for Local Governments and Communities On Tuesday, January 26, 2010, EPA’s Local Climate and Energy Program will host a webcast entitled “Clean Energy Workforce Development for Local Governments and Communities.” The webcast will provide an overview of EPA’s state and local workforce efforts and the U.S. Department of Labor’s employment training administration programs. In addition, Santa Fe YouthWorks and Clean Energy Works Portland will showcase how they each developed, implemented, and measured results from their workforce programs. The webcast will conclude with a question and answer session. Background information for the Clean Energy Workforce Development webcast is available at: www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-programs/state-and-local/webcast.html www.apolloalliance.org/downloads/greencollarjobs.pdf www.santafeyouthworks.org www.cleanenergyworksportland.org The webcast will be held on January 26, 2010, from 2:00–4:00 PM (Eastern). If multiple staff from your agency wish to participate, please share one computer and phone line. EPA will record and post the webcast on its Local Climate and Energy Program website for interested parties who are not able to participate during the live training. To register, please visit: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/613649818 EPA’s Local Climate and Energy Program hosts regular training webcasts on specific climate and energy topics. Upcoming webcast topics include green power communities, smart grid, transportation control measures, smart growth, and urban heat islands. For additional information, or to view past webcasts, visit: www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-programs/state-and-local/webcast.html. ... Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:47:27 +0100 811062 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/ZEM6EEols5g/ The Knowledge Congress: Legal Ethics and E-Discovery – Live Webcast February 17, 2010 12-2 PM ET K&L Gates partner David R. Cohen will present on a number of topics, including compliance with preservation and production obligations, the duties of in-house vs. outside counsel, privilege issues and Fed. R. Evid. 502, and how to avoid common e-discovery pitfalls. Click here to learn more and to register. (Source: Electronic Discovery Law) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:46:45 +0100 811242 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/21/highlights-only-survey-of-higher-education-faculty-evaluation-of-library-efforts-to-index-preserve-and-catalog-blogs-websites-email-archives-and-other-cyber-resources/ Primary Research has published (fee-based) a new report, The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Evaluation of Library Efforts to Index, Preserve and Catalog Blogs, Websites, Email Archives and Other Cyber Resources. From the Summary: …presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the usefulness and quality of academic library efforts to further scholarship based on internet sources such as websites, blogs, listervs, social networking sites, online ads and other internet resources. The report presents highly detailed data on how faculty use blogs, websites, social networking sites, email archives, listservs, webcasts and podcasts, ezines, online ads and other cyber resources in scholarship. It also highlights how faculty rate the efforts of academic libraries to index, preserve and catalog these resources. In addition, the report discusses other pertinent trends, such as the degree of use of web archiving software. The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors. Here are a Few Findings from the Report: _ More than 53% of faculty in the sample refer to websites in scholarly papers. Research university faculty were the most likely among faculty at all types of institutions to refer to websites in their scholarly papers 62.5% of them do so. + 15.34% of faculty sampled refer to listserv or usenet postings in presentations. 31.25% of faculty in colleges with fewer than 1,000 students refer to listserv or usenet postings in presentations, the highest among all types of colleges defined by size range in the sample. + 14.71% of faculty sampled had ever used a web archive in their scholarly work. ... Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:16:30 +0100 810621 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/21/more-social-media-from-library-of-congress-new-facebook-page-for-american-folklife-center/ From the Announcement: The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the launch of an AFC page on Facebook. Please become our fan to see what we are up to! You’ll be introduced to classic folk, blues and world music, see photos and video webcasts from our collections, and receive updates about our concerts and other events. Go to http://www.facebook.com/americanfolklifecenter and click on “Become a Fan” today. Source: Library of Congress (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:49:41 +0100 810422 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/20/survey-findings-daily-media-use-among-children-and-teens-up-dramatically-from-five-years-ago/ From the Findings: With technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth, according to a study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time ‘media multitasking’ (using more than one medium at a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours. The amount of time spent with media increased by an hour and seventeen minutes a day over the past five years, from 6:21 in 2004 to 7:38 today. And because of media multitasking, the total amount of media content consumed during that period has increased from 8:33 in 2004 to 10:45 today. Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people’s media use. It includes data from all three waves of the study (1999, 2004, and 2009), and is among the largest and most comprehensive publicly available sources of information about media use among American youth. Mobile media driving increased consumption. The increase in media use is driven in large part by ready access to mobile devices like cell phones and iPods. Over the past five years, there has been a huge increase in ownership among 8- to 18-year-olds: from 39% to 66% for cell phones, and from 18% to 76% for iPods and other MP3 players. During this period, cell phones and iPods have become true multi-media devices: in fact, young people now spend more time listening to music, playing games, and watching TV on their cell phones (a total of :49 daily) than they spend talking on them (:33). ... Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:44:05 +0100 810266 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/01/gillespie Tuesday, January 19, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:30:00 +0100 809834 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/d4jG99I26W8/ This free webcast is now available. It is a discussion of the philosophy, research, planning, and development of the next generation of Library-Services-provided free talking books. Speakers are: Frank Kurt Cylke, Michael Katzmann, John Bryant, Michael Martys, Donald Olson, Edmund O’Reilly. You will need Real Player to listen. (via Resource Shelf) Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:41:59 +0100 808452 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrarylawBlog/~3/-CPIWsHI730/copyright-update-webinar-today-at-noon-pacific.html New Copyright Tools and Best Practices: Copyright Law Update 2010Log in to this webinar at http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/348/index.html to:    * Get updates on new copyright tools and best practices that can be helpful for libraries;    * Learn the latest developments in copyright laws and cases, including the latest in the Google Book Search case, e-reserve and coursepack lawsuits.    * Learn about a simple procedure to file with the Copyright Office to minimize liability for user-supplied-content.This webinar will be of interest to library staff who confront copyright issues in designing web pages, making digital copies for interlibrary loan and e-reserves, and will help those who fear receiving copyright infringement notices.Please note: Attendees should have some familiarity with basic copyright practicesWebinar: Thursday, January 14, 2010Time: 12pm-1pm PSTSpeaker: Mary Minow (Source: LibraryLaw Blog) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:54:28 +0100 808578 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/14/webcast-digital-accessibility-for-blind-and-physically-handicapped-individuals/ Now Available: A discussion at The Library of Congress recorded on November 4, 2009. The program runs 89 minutes. Speakers: Frank Kurt Cylke, Michael Katzmann, John Bryant, Michael Martys, Donald Olson, Edmund O’Reilly. A discussion of the philosophy, research, planning, and development of the next generation of Library-Services-provided free talking books. Direct to Video and Summary Source: LC (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:53:44 +0100 808484 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/01/14/upcoming-climate-and-energy-webcasts-for-state-and-local-governments/ ENERGY STAR Procurement and Benchmarking Webcasts EPA’s ENERGY STAR program will offer two trainings on Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Purchasing and Procuring Efficient Equipment will take place from 1-2 PM EST, and will include information about reducing energy costs through efficient products. Benchmarking in Portfolio Manager for State and Local Governments will be held from 2-3 PM EST, and attendees will learn how to measure and track energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from their buildings. To register for either webcast and to see other upcoming ENERGY STAR trainings, visit: https://energystar.webex.com Combined Heat and Power Opportunities at Wastewater Treatment Facilities EPA’s Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Partnership will host this webinar on Thursday, January 21, 2010, from 3-4:30 PM EST. CHP is a reliable, cost-effective option for municipal wastewater treatment facilities that have, or are planning to install, anaerobic digesters. Biogas flow from these digesters can be used in a CHP system as “free” fuel to generate reliable electricity and power for the wastewater facility. To register for this webcast, or to learn more about the CHP series of webcasts, please visit: http://www.epa.gov/chp/events/webinars.html Clean Energy Workforce Development EPA’s Local Climate and Energy Program will hold a webcast on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 from 2-4 PM EST. The webcast will provide local governments and local community groups with background information on workforce development and developing policies and programs in their regions. The webcast will cover resources available from the federal government as well as case studies from Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Portland, Oregon. To register, please use the following link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/613649818 For more information about the Local Climate and Energy Program, visit: http://epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-programs/state-and-local/local. ... Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:48:05 +0100 808468 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/01/bermejo Tuesday, January 12, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:30:00 +0100 807849 http://nnlm.gov/scr/blog/?p=3983 Interested in copyright issues?  Attend a free webinar sponsored by the Washington State Library on Thursday, January 14, 2010, from 10-11 a.m. The link to connect to the webinar will be available at: http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/348/index.html Get updates on new copyright tools and best practices that can be helpful for libraries: Learn the latest developments in copyright laws and [...] (Source: Network News) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:29:34 +0100 808044 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2010/01/kossyln Monday, January 11, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (kglemaud@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:30:00 +0100 807585 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/01/bnf-et-google-contribution-au-debat.html Vendredi dernier, se tenait à la BnF une journée de débat autour du futur-très-probable accord entre Google et ladite BnF, débat intitulé "Numérisation du patrimoine et moteurs de recherche",  débat réunissant notamment Patrick Bazin, Roger Chartier et Robert Darnton, soit quelques analystes et acteurs les plus passionnants sur le sujet. Le programme complet de cette journée était initialement disponible sur le site de la BnF (ici) mais, étrangement, il a été "soit déplacé soit supprimé". :-( En ligne, très peu de traces de cette journée :  merci à l'ADBS et à Livres Hebdo d'avoir assuré de rapides compte-rendu (si vous en avez repéré d'autres, les commentaires sont ouverts). Très peu de traces ... et pour cause : les personnes présentes sur place n'ont même pas pu twitter étant donné l'absence de connexion Wikfi ou 3G. Plus globalement, et alors même que depuis les plus hautes sphères de l'état jusqu'à la presse grand public, chacun se passionne pour ce sujet (ce qui n'est pas toujours le cas lorsque l'on parle de l'avenir et du modèle des bibliothèques), plus globalement donc, le fait que les organisateurs de cette journée n'aient pas envisagé de la webcaster ou d'en diffuser des extraits est atterrant. Et à peu près aussi improbable que TF1 décidant d'organiser la soirée de l'élection de Miss France à huis-clos. C'est vrai quoi, on a un sujet passionnant, les meilleurs spécialistes (pro ou anti) de la question sur le plateau, une demande très forte d'information de la part du public, et on la joue "black-out", on l'organise sur le mode "et ben vous aviez qu'à être présents". Dommage. Dommage. ... Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 807513 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/01/27-one-sentence-blurbs.html Buffy Hamilton shared a post from the MLxperience blog (Marianne Lenox) that asks for one-sentence answers to 27 questions (she got it from Maurice Coleman of T is for Training). Here goes:1) Your One Sentence Bio I operate on emotion, which I realise is not the best thing in the world, but I am also a very loyal friend, cultivate a certain bit of eccentricity, am very much a geek all around, and enjoy my work as a librarian immensely. 2) Do you blog? If yes, how did you come up with your blog name? Yes, since 2001, and my blog name is taken from my identification with being a librarian as well as an double-entendre regarding my enthusiasm for the field and a traumatic squirrel bite (long story) in which there was some concern for rabies. 3) What is your professional background? I have an undergraduate degree in history, sociology, and classics and an MSLS but for some reason wound up as a medical librarian at a charity children's hospital--for 13 years so far. 4) What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes? I work in such a small facility that almost all training is done one-on-one, with occasional inservices in the past when new projects were instituted. 5) What training do you think is most important to libraries right now? Becoming transliterate ourselves and helping our patrons to do so as well, learning to navigate different ways of acquiring information in all its myriad forms. 6) Where do you get your training? The MLA provides great classes and webcasts, but I also read a lot in the field. 7) How do you keep up? A good chunk of my Google Reader feeds are library-related, but primarily I keep up through several electronic lists on a variety of library subjects. 8) What do you think are the biggest challenges libraries are facing right now? Embracing information in all its forms and educating the public about our expertise in organising, finding, and teaching others how to access that information. ... Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 806857 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/08/law-library-of-congress-now-with-youtube-and-itunes/ From the Announcement: More social media for the Law Library of Congress! You can now find the Law Library of Congress on YouTube and iTunes. The Law and the Library Playlist can be found at this URL on [YouTube]. To find videos in iTunes, search Law Library of Congress and select our “Law and the Library” iTunesU series or visit this URL. Law and the Library is a series of debates and discussions on a wide variety of contemporary legal issues. The series presented by the Law Library of Congress ranges from talks by current or former Members of Congress to pressing foreign, comparative, and international legal issues. Source: Law Library of Congress / Library of Congress See Also: A Holiday Letter from the Law Librarian of Congress, Roberta Shaffer (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:11:11 +0100 806575 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/_TEea_cO5RY/ The first is Understanding BookServer: The Power to Find, Buy or Borrow Any Digital Book in Any Format at Any Time. It will be held on January 19 from 1 to 2 PM EST. “… During this presentation, two of the those closest to the BookServer project will explain its genesis and vision, discuss the components of the BookServer architecture, and highlight opportunities across the supply chain.” The second is Digital Book Printing: What Can Digital Do (or Not Do) for You? It will be held on January 28 from 2 to 3 PM EST. “… taking advantage of print on demand technology is a significant business decision that must be made on a title-by-title basis. So how do you decide if the move to digital printing is right for you and your company?” You can find out about both of these webcasts here. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:59:39 +0100 806397 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/01/07/trial-of-california-prop-8-challenge-to-be-on-youtube/ As everyone will know, California’s Proposition 8, passed in November of 2008, added this section to the state constitution: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” On January 11, the constitutionality of that law will be challenged in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (USDCCAND) in a case styled Perry v. Schwarzenegger. The case has elicited such public interest — see, e.g., the nifty media guide [PDF] issued by the court — that the judge in the matter has ruled that it be broadcast on YouTube. At the moment there’s a test video on the USDCCAND YouTube Channel, the site for the trial, showing technicians checking the equipment and so forth. If you’re thinking of watching some or all of the trial, you might want to bring yourself up to speed by checking out some of the relevant material on the Filings and Case Documents of Special Interest page for the case. The initial complaint [PDF], seeking declaratory, injunctive or “other relief,” argues that Proposition 8 violates “fundamental liberties that are protected by the Due Process Clause” of the U.S. constitution, the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and Title 42 U.S.C. §1983. So far as I know, no Canadian trial has been broadcast on the internet, whether on YouTube or otherwise; though, of course, the Supreme Court’s hearings are webcast; and the Ontario Court of Appeal tested the use of internet cameras in the court for a brief while. (Source: Slaw) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:29:38 +0100 807044 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/H50cUxj_8Tg/ Center for Competitive Management – E-Discovery Best Practices and Compliance Guidelines (Audio Conference) January 14, 2010 2-3:15 PM ET K&L Gates partners David Cohen and Todd Nunn will co-present this discussion of how to stay on top of the rapidly changing world of electronic records, discovery, and evidence including discussion of specific topics such as recent rulings and risks associated with e-discovery, best practices for managing electronic stored information, opportunities and challenges for 2010, and methods for cutting costs and lowering data loss risks. For more information or to register, click here. Thompson Publishing – Taming the E-Discovery Beast: Proactive Measures to Slash Costs and Reduce Risks (Webcast) January 20, 2010 2 PM ET K&L Gates partners David Cohen and Julie Anne Halter will co-present this discussion focusing on proactive steps that organizations can take before litigation to reduce e-discovery exposure and proven cost control and cost reduction strategies to employ during litigation. For more information or to register, click here. (Source: Electronic Discovery Law) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:04:12 +0100 807499 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2871 The University of Minnesota Libraries has taken a new approach to its planning process this year to help deal with seemingly conflicting realities. On the one hand, everything said publicly by University administration indicates that the U's financial future is Not Good. On the other, the Libraries has several projects in place that are innovative and many, many more on hold that would also be fabulous. These projects are in addition to the regular day-to-day work of a library. Something has to give somewhere, but the Libraries can't just metaphorically throw its hands in the air and say "the heck with this, I'm out". So, the Libraries is hosting a speaker series with the goal of moving from lemons to lemonade. There have been two speakers so far - Lorcan Dempsey and Paul Courant. See https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/Staff/UniversityLibrariesSpeakerSeries for more information - future speakers will be Jim Neal and Clifford Lynch. While online access is limited during the talks, the future speakers will be recorded and the webcasts posted soon after for all to view. And, at the risk of sounding sycophantic, I believe our University Librarian's - Wendy P. Lougee - opening remarks are also worth a listen on their own merits. Lorcan Dempsey - "Discovery and Delivery" Dempsey began by describing levels of rarity of library collections based on OCLC data with the suggestion that where libraries should focus their expenditures (presumably on preservation, simply having the space to hold, doing really good digitization, etc) is on the rare items. Non-rare items could reasonably be entrusted to network-level services like the Hathi Trust. He then presented a typology of library collection types sorted by rarity and current levels of stewardship. Government publications fell into high stewardship, but low rarity. ... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:50:13 +0100 805999 http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/?p=4715 Free in Nebraska, see Nebraska Library Commission at: http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/training/train.asp Free in Wyoming, and Utah, see: Biographical Center for Research. See: http://www.bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/index.html College of DuPage http://www.dupagepress.com/library-learning-network/ Making the Best of a Shrinking Budget: Creative Practices in a New Economy January 29, 2010 Cataloging: Where are we now? Where are we going? February 19, 2010 Information Literacy Education: A National Overview March 12, 2010 Technology Trends in Libraries: Tools, Skills, Staffing, Training April 9, 2010 All teleconferences are on Fridays from 11:00-12:30 Central Time, 10:00-11:30 Mountain Time. Programs can be accessed via Webcast or via satellite downlink. (mm) (Source: Midcontinental Region News) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:09:20 +0100 806045 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/05/on-mobile-computing-google-and-others/ From a NY Times Article by Miquel Helft: “As people increasingly rely on powerful mobile phones instead of PCs to access the Web, their surfing habits are bound to change. What’s more, online advertising could lose its role as the Web’s primary economic engine, putting Google’s leadership role into question.” [Snip] “The new paradigm is mobile computing and mobility,” said David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School. “That has the potential to change the economics of the Internet business and to redistribute profits yet again.” [Snip] “It certainly remains to be seen how big mobile advertising will be,” said Charles Golvin, an analyst with Forrester Research. Predictions about the growth potential of mobile advertising vary widely. A recent report on the mobile Internet by Morgan Stanley, for instance, said that while advertising accounts for 40 percent of revenue on the desktop Internet, it accounts for just 5 percent of revenue on the mobile Internet. That could change, as more personalized advertising technologies, including coupons and offers that are aimed at users based on their location, could usher in a new wave of growth in digital marketing. Source: NY Times (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:25:12 +0100 805506 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2009/12/blogging-as-serious-scholarship.html I have written before about whether law blogs, especially those of an academic bent, can be considered serious scholarship.The Law Librarian Blog today revisited the issue in a post entitled Blogging as Thinking Out Loud Sometimes. Back in 2006, when Harvard had organized a conference on "Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship", many academic were very sceptical about the whole idea. But Law Librarian Blog now reports that many scholars who used to be less than enthusiastic have been changing their opinion about the blog format as a source of serious intellectual work.Earlier Library Boy posts on the topic include:Harvard Blog and Legal Scholarship Conference Update (May 11, 2006): "In the past few years, blogs have begun to affect the delivery of legal education, the production and dissemination of legal scholarship, and the practice of law. We are delighted that over twenty of the nation’s leading law professor bloggers have agreed to join with us for the first scholarly conference on the impact of blogs on the legal academy." More Law Journals Adding Blog Companions (April 20, 2007): "A number of law journals are now leveraging weblog technology to present information and commentary online. Some are offering online weblog 'digests' which supplement the traditional printed journal, while others are solely online. The common thread (... ... Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 804164 http://dltj.org/article/alamw10-schedule/ The year is coming to a close, so that must mean that the midwinter meeting of the American Library Association is right around the corner. Yep, there it is — just two and a half weeks away in Boston. A conference in Boston in January — the rates have got to be cheap. 1 Given the fast approaching meeting, it is definitely time to strategize about how to tap into the pulse of library-land. Here is my plan so far. If you would like to get together in the spaces between meetings, or at the meetings themselves, let me know!Friday, January 15thFriday morning I’ll be at the OCLC Americas Regional Council meeting (8:30am to 11:30am; Westin Waterfront, Grand ballroom A/B). With a meeting title like “New Ways to Communicate—Engaging the Membership” plus an interest in the OCLC Record Use policy, how can I not go? This is the first public meeting of the Americas regional council. You can sign up to attend at OCLC’s Midwinter Events page.On Friday afternoon I’ll be at RMG’s 2010 ALA/Midwinter Annual Presidents’ Seminar (2:00pm to 5:00pm; Convention Center Room 162 A/B). Rob McGee’s seminars bring together the heads of library automation companies to talk through the issues of the day. Of late, he has also been giving a platform to the various open source library automation projects that might not have a corporate face, so it usually turns out to be a well-rounded discussion. This has long been a Midwinter highlight for me.At end the day, I’ll probably be at the LITA Happy Hour (5:00pm to 7:00pm; Capiz Bar of the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel). Note the “probably” — it depends on the arrival schedule of someone I need to meet. If weather messes with late afternoon flights, I’m more likely to be at the happy hour. ... Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:29:27 +0100 804019 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/KlGMz8h-dkU/ Una de las aplicaciones esenciales para la enseñanza en línea son los sistemas que permiten realizar video-conferencias o los llamados “webcastings”. Existen aplicaciones excelentes  como Elluminate pero requieren el pago de una licencia anual para su uso. Para las instituciones educativas que quieren implementar una aplicación de webcasting de código libre parecería que las opciones se reducen a dos: DimDim y BigBlueButton. DimDim tiene la ventaja de que tiene un módulo que se integra con Moodle. BigBlueButton es un proyecto nuevo pero que tiene muy buena pinta y que  hay que seguir de cerca ya que puede convertirse en el Moodle de los sistemas de webcastings. Espero poder motivar al grupo de tecnologías de información de mi Universidad a instalar estas dos aplicaciones y comenzar a realizar pruebas con las mismas en el nuevo año. Etiquetas: Educación a Distancia, Educación a Distancia, Enseñanza en Línea Entradas relacionadas NCATE acredita primer programa a distancia (1) Stanford University ofrece grados de maestría a distancia (1) Blogueando desde el congreso educativo de SUAGM (3) Enseñanza en línea como la brujería del siglo 21 (4) Participando del Futuro de la Educación (1) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:37:14 +0100 803365 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/23/the-december-2009-issue-of-e-news-for-arl-directors-is-now-online/ The issue contains 28 items. Here are a Few of Them: 4-Nobel Prize–Winning Scientists Urge Congress to Ensure Free Online Access to Federally Funded Research 6-Obama Speaks in China on Freedom of Expression & Open Internet 7-FCC Hosts Workshop on Free Speech & Open Internet;Video Online 11-Support Grows for Access to Copyrighted Works by the Blind and Others with Disabilities 15-New Publishing Models for University Press E-Books: SPARC Webcast Archive Available 19-Committee on Economic Development Releases Final Report on “Harnessing Openness” to Improve Higher Ed 20-ARL E-Science Survey Resources Now Online 21-Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age: ARL Publishes Special Issue of Research Library Issues Review the Complete List of Stories Source: Association for Research Libraries (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:45:37 +0100 803003 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/12/glass Tuesday, December 22, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:30:00 +0100 802580 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/12/byrne Tuesday, December 15, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:30:00 +0100 800747 http://mulford.utoledo.edu/mblog/?p=1882 PubMed, through the inclusion of Medline, is one of the premier databases for clinical medicine. Recent revisions include the following (more extensive Medline data changes  listing may be found here ): One new Publication Types, Webcasts,  will be added to the “Type of Article” menu on the Advanced Search screen. (More information about this addition) Publication types (as review, clinical trials) may be selected to narrow one’s search through the Advanced Search screen. The heading, Young Adult, new to MeSH ** for 2009 indexing, will be added to the “Ages” menu on the Advanced Search screen as Young Adult: 19-24 years. Over 400 new MesH terms have been added, including Advanced Practice Nursing , Chromosome Breakpoints, Delayed Diagnosis , Drug Recalls , Fast Foods , Hereditary Autoinflammatory Diseases , Lab-On-A-Chip Devices, Off-Label Use, Retinoblastoma Binding Proteins, Sternotomy, and Translational Research.  Typically, NLM does not retrospectively re-index MEDLINE citations with new MeSH Heading concepts. Therefore, searching PubMed for a new MeSH term tagged with [mh] or [majr] effectively limits retrieval to citations indexed after the term was introduced. PubMed Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) expands an untagged subject search to include both MeSH Terms and All Fields index terms and may retrieve relevant citations indexed before the introduction of a new MeSH term. Searchers may consult the MeSH Browser or the MeSH database to see the Previous Indexing terms most likely used before the new MeSH Heading was introduced.   Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Library with your information and research needs. For example, we are happy to consult with you on MeSH selection and search strategies for more focused PubMed search results.  We also perform free literature searches under many circumstances.   **MeSH (Medical subject headings)  is the U.S. ... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:13:52 +0100 800464 http://videocast.nih.gov/ram/nara120309.ram Last week we posted a link to an in-depth profile of the new Archivist of the United States and librarian, David Ferriero. However, we didn’t post a link to his recent “State of the Archives Speech” that occurred on December 3, 2009. Here’s the full text along with with a link to view the speech as a webcast. From the Speech: The Internet has introduced countless researchers to the holdings of the National Archives. While it is thrilling that the desire for online information brings more and more people to our virtual doors, I know that the task of building an “archives without walls,” so to speak, is a demanding one. An important part of our effort must be developing the means for archivists to interact with our virtual visitors, and figuring out how archivists work in a virtual archives – what skills are needed, and how work processes will change. I applaud the work you have done to establish NARA’s presence on the world-wide web, and your successful launches of social media and networking tools such as You Tube, Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook to reach new audiences, capture useful information, and receive timely feedback on programs and holdings. Web 2.0 technologies are powerful communication tools, and I know that our recent initiatives are just the tip of the iceberg of what is yet to come in this area. Source: NARA (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:05:01 +0100 800369 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/BJp39RvNrGg/deep-dive-on-display-advertising.html 2009 has been a busy year for Google in the area of display advertising — that is, the image, video and interactive ad formats that run across the web.Our goal is to improve display advertising on the web for everyone. We're working to help advertisers get better results from their display ad campaigns, enable publishers to make more money from their ad space and deliver better, more relevant ads (and, ultimately, more ad-funded web content) to users.To achieve these goals, in 2009 we released a host of new features for display advertisers on the Google Content Network and on YouTube, launched the new DoubleClick Ad Exchange and made significant enhancements to our ad serving products.On Tuesday December 15 at 10am PT, we're hosting an educational webcast for analysts, investors and press about our display advertising business. This is our second educational webcast — the first, on search advertising, was held in September.The webcast will be available at investor.google.com, and a replay will be available on the same website. If you're interested in hearing about our efforts in this space, please feel free to tune in.Posted by Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management (Source: Official Google Blog) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 800778 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/11/recently-released-blogs-from-the-u-s-federal-government/ Here’s a small collection of some of the blogs released by the U.S. Federal Government during the past couple of months. The listings and summaries come from USA.gov + Office of the United States Trade Representative Blog Stay current on U.S. trade issues with Ambassador Ron Kirk. + United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director’s Forum David Kappos, the director of the USPTO, discusses the work of the agency. + White House Office of Public Engagement This blog helps advance the dialogue between the Obama Administration and the American public, while bringing new voices to the table and ensuring that everyone can participate and inform the work of the President. + Energy Empowers Learn more about how Americans are building a new energy economy by improving efficiency, building sustainable businesses that create new jobs, and using old skills in new ways to generate clean energy. + White House Council on Environmental Quality This blog discusses the Council’s efforts to coordinate Federal environmental efforts. + Inside Adams This blog from the Library of Congress will point readers to the Library’s large and diverse collections of books, journals, prints, photographs, digital collections, finding aids, and Webcasts related to science, technology, and business. + President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board Blog The advisory board meets periodically and solicits information and ideas from all sectors to promote the growth of the economy, establish a stable and sound financial and banking system, and create jobs. + The Small Business Watchdog The official blog of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy. Source: USA.gov (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:49:34 +0100 799660 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/n_n.html December 16, 2009 7 - 8 pm : MyMoon Webcast at Live Video WebcastChat with planetary scientist David Kring.David will discuss the importance of returning astronauts to the Moon. The rest of the conversation is up to you! You can begin by submitting your questions for David...Dr. David Kring leads the Center for Lunar Science and Exploration at the Lunar and Planetary Institute. He has led a decade-long campaign to test the lunar cataclysm hypothesis, which is one of the great intellectual legacies of the Apollo program. David is also actively engaged in communicating scientific issues to the public through a wide variety of media. Click here to learn more about David. (Source: New) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:50:52 +0100 799963 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/udcEVRuoid0/ The December 8, 2009 issue  of the NLM Technical Bulletin is out and librarians will be interested to know that Webcasts is one of the two other terms (Research Support and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) will be added to the “Type of Article” menu in Advanced Search.  I love the idea that NLM is finally looking at indexing things that were/are webcasts.  Now the only problem is making sure these webcasts are permanently available or archived somewhere.  I guess if the webcast is associated with NLM or with a journal such as NEJM or JAMA then we librarians and the public have a better chance that the webcast is  somewhere not lost on web or deleted.  Now if the webcast is not associated with a publisher or an organization with a vested interest in archiving and keeping their content, then we have might have problems retrieving it in the future.  It will be interesting to see how webcast items will be handled.  The Bulletin lists some other things you might want to know that are happening with the 2010 PubMed.  Young Adult: 19-24 will be added to the Ages menu in Advanced Search and linking ISSN numbers will appear in the MEDLINE format in the ISSN field. Those of you who use XML data (you know who you are) should check out “XML Changes for the NLM 2010 Production Year” and you can be kept up to date with changes by subscribing to the NLM’s anouncement mailing list.  As Nikki Detmar first stated on Twitter, PubMed Advanced Search is still a work in progress, so stay tuned to the Bulletin as NLM “re-works”  Advanced Search to “improve search capabilities.” (Source: The Krafty Librarian) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:20:15 +0100 798978 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5813 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITYDecember 9, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media [1] [THURSDAY 12/10/09] FCC "Workshop: Review and Discussion of Broadband Deployment Research" in Washington, DC and webcast online (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/12/broadband_review_fcc_worksho...) [2] [MONDAY 12/14/09] CRCS Lunch Seminar: "Monetary Policy for Scrip Systems: Crashes, Altruists, Hoarders, Sybils and Collusion" with Ian Kash (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/12/kash)read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:24:15 +0100 799093 http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/webcasts.html being attended by Sue Hutley today. Webcast at (Source: ALIAnet: ALIA home page news) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:25:04 +0100 800134 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2009/12/un-climate-change-conference-in.html The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen has begun.It is possible to find webcasts, news and background documents on the conference website.You may also want to check out the UN Climate Change Gateway and the Danish government's host country website. (Source: Library Boy) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 798638 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrarylawBlog/~3/KJQ6KHUSkD8/writing-library-behavior-codes-infopeople-webinar-december-10th-noon-pacific-time.html Infopeople webinar http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/345/index.html Writing a Library Behavior Code   - Thursday Dec. 10, 2009 Noon (Pacific Time) A teen in the library is bothering other library users. A woman is breastfeeding her baby in the children's room. A man asks for help looking up N1H1, says he has it and then sneezes loudly. Are these behaviors prohibited by the library's code of conduct? If so, what can library staff legally do to address the situation? This webinar will benefit participants by helping them draft legally enforceable behavior codes. It offers guidance on reasonable behavior rules, distinguished from restrictions on user's free speech rights. What type of notice must the library give its users about its behavior policies? When is an appeals process required, and what should it entail? The webinar also looks at the emerging issue of library user behavior at library spaces online in chat, text, blog comments as well as third party spaces like library myspace and flickr pages. (Source: LibraryLaw Blog) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:49:14 +0100 799348 http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/LIB/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/07122009011415PMCEMPDY.htm The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen began today. The official conference website includes webcasts, news, documents and more. Denmark's host country website also provides key information. Resources: Conference programme Conference documents UN System Climate Change Gateway... (Source: UN Pulse | A Service/Blog of the United Nations Library) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 800010 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/06/nobelprize-org-provides-live-hd-quality-webcasts-of-2009-nobel-prize-award-ceremonies-and-nobel-lectures/ From the Announcement: Nobelprize.org, the official web site of the Nobel Foundation, will provide live webcasts in HD quality of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony from Oslo, Norway, and the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony from Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2009. Nobel Lectures on 7, 8 and 10 December will also be webcast live. Nobelprize.org brings you closer to the 2009 Nobel Laureates as they receive their Nobel Prizes, by providing live webcasts of the 2009 Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies and Nobel Lectures as they happen. Access a Complete List of Times and Lectures Source: Nobelprize.org (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:04:19 +0100 798126 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/bkPuGTf4QGk/ala-youth-media-awards-live-webcast.html "The American Library Association will provide a free live webcast of its Youth Media Awards, a national announcement of the top books and media for children and young adults, on January 18, at 7:45 a.m. EST. The award announcements are made as part of the ALA Midwinter Meeting, which will bring together librarians, publishers, authors and guests to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center from January 15 to 19. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, the ALA Youth Media Awards guide parents, educators, librarians and others in selecting the best materials for children and young adults. This year's announcement includes 17 awards including the Coretta Scott King Book Awards; John Newbery Medal; Michael L. Printz Award; Schneider Family Book Award; and the Randolph Caldecott Medal" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:43:43 +0100 798090 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=What39s_the_Deal_New_York_Public_Library_-_webcastr-com In an age of being able to google anything, anytime, anywhere on your smart phone, who uses libraries anymore? (Source: pligg - all) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:00:31 +0100 797272 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/BkM-LGoF9Bs/ OCLC has made available a webcast of Herbert Van de Sompel's presentation "Memento: Time Travel for the Web." You can find out more about Memento at Van de Sompel's e-print, "Memento: Time Travel for the Web." Related Posts Webinar: "DuraCloud: Enabling Services for Managing Data in the Cloud" "Memento: Time Travel for the Web" OCLC Presentations on Digital Curation and Web-scale Management Services "Saying What We Do—Doing What We Say: Preservation Issues (Metadata and Otherwise) in Institutional Repositories" OCLC and HathiTrust to Collaborate on Enhancing Access to Digital Repository Materials (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:04:40 +0100 798597 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2009/12/03/webcast-memento-time-travel-for-the-web/ OCLC has made available a webcast of Herbert Van de Sompel's presentation "Memento: Time Travel for the Web." You can find out more about Memento at Van de Sompel's e-print, "Memento: Time Travel for the Web." Related Posts Webinar: "DuraCloud: Enabling Services for Managing Data in the Cloud" "Memento: Time Travel for the Web" Papers from the European Research Area 2009 Conference Digital Videos: Presentations from Access 2009 Conference (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:04:14 +0100 797258