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 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:08:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=OLE_Project_Webcast_Workshops_Scheduled__Disruptive_Library_--- The OLE project, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks to convene the academic library community in the design of an Open Library (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:27 +0100 674293 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6615539.html?rssid=191 Veterans say distance learning is equally challenging but more rewarding. (Source: Library Journal News) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:23:58 +0100 674025 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2008/11/heller Tuesday, November 18, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:30:00 +0100 673910 http://www.infotogo.com/users/index.asp?RSS=32143 Dr. William A. Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering, discusses the future of engineering education. (Source: Info To Go: Navigating the Internet) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:03:00 +0100 673742 http://www.mdmlg.org/2008/11/mla-webcast-survival-tips-and-stories.html The MLA Webcast, "Survival Tips and Stories: Expanding the Library's Services in Times of Disaster" was originally broadcast November 12, 2008. If you missed it, you can view it on your computer; on-demand viewing is available until December 15, 2008For further information, go to http://www.mdmlg.org/mla-webcast-november-2008.htm. (Source: MDMLG / Metropolitan Detroit Medical Library Group) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674420 http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/11/17/immigration-data-resources/ The Population Reference Bureau and the Migration Policy Institute brought together four experts to talk about immigration data sources on Oct. 16. Webcasts and a report are available on the PRB web site. (Source: News from the PRI Library and Data Archive) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:19:28 +0100 673563 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/455042714/10-ways-the-oba.html Obama ran the first campaign that fully utilized the Web (ver. 1 and 2). Dan Manatt, TechPresident contributor, offers suggestions on how the Obama Administration can keep its web momentum going. They are (1) WhiteHouse.gov/TV; (2) Weekly Obama Webcast; (3)... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673863 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/davidleeking/~5/453161951/ssplayer2.swf I just finished a webcast presentation for the SirsiDynix Institute titled Tinkering in the Techie Toybox: Staying on Top of Consumer Technology. As promised, here are some links mentioned in the presentation: Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library’s Techie Toybox - what we originally purchased Princeton Public Library’s Gadget Garage More info on Santa Cruz Public Libraries Technology Petting Zoo More info on Massachusetts Library Association’s Technology Petting Zoo: request for volunteers and the conference report WebJunction’s Creating a Technology Petting Zoo Webinar Recap What’s in Your Bag group on Flickr And a copy of my slides (SirsiDynix recorded the presentation and will be posting that, probably within the next week or so). Tinkering in the Techie Toybox: Staying on Top of Consumer Technology View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: consumer technology) Share: (Source: David Lee King) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:28:08 +0100 672982 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2008/11/Kirschner-Madden Tuesday, November 11, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET.Bryan Kirschner is the Director of Open Source Strategy for Microsoft, and Mario Madden is the Open Source Licensing Counsel. Join us to discuss Microsoft and open source today—and what you can expect from Microsoft and open source in the future.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:10:18 +0100 671054 http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/11/12/youtube-ventures-into-live-event-webcastin/ NYTimes.com - “YouTube will venture into webcasting later this month, in an effort to take the video sharing Web site’s popularity to a new level by showcasing the talent behind its most viewed videos.” (Source: Library Stuff) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:34:43 +0100 671513 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Webcast_ldquoAcademic_Librarianship_by_Designrdquo_with_John_Shank_on_--- Using Blended Librarian principles, the webcast will also explore how to appropriately identify and design library services for a Course/Learning Man (Source: pligg - all) Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:00:26 +0100 670987 http://www.infotogo.com/users/index.asp?RSS=31989 "Audiobooks are a research-validated tool for improving vocabulary, comprehension and literacy skills for young readers of all abilities. Especially effective with emerging, reluctant and ESL rea... (Source: Info To Go: Navigating the Internet) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:02:00 +0100 670538 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/11/07/paper-pervasive-media-delivering-the-right-thing-in-the-moment/ Pervasive Media: Delivering ‘the right thing in the moment’ 21st Century lifestyles and business practices demand value delivery on the move and in many situations. An explosion in mobile services is being fuelled by the availability of powerful media-rich mobile devices and pervasive networking. Successful solutions in this high growth area will be those that can deliver ‘the right thing in the moment’. That is, high value services will be those that are tuned to the user’s situation and so deliver the best experience. Delivering the right thing in the moment changes the way content is consumed and the timing of its availability. It changes the use of space and time and so: the way the creative industries think about delivering content, the way advertisers think about just in time messaging and tracking; and the way information is accessed throughout an organization. This paper considers the implications for technology and application research. We describe the need for: an extensible and scaleable context framework with privacy, trust and security policies embedded; new modes of interface between the physical and the digital environment; and a programme that builds expertise amongst practitioners as the technology develops in its early stages. + Full Paper (PDF; 99 KB) Source: HP Labs (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:37:12 +0100 669848 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=23164 Point of View: Investment Management Anti-Fraud and Compliance Programs Source: Deloitte LLP The potential risks related to financial fraud and noncompliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-bribery regulations are significant for firms in the investment management sector. Even firms not subject to the AML compliance regulations can find themselves in trouble if they do not have process and controls designed to prevent and detect money laundering, which could result in prosecution, significant fines and irreparable damage to a company’s reputation. Although most senior officers at private equity firms, hedge funds and mutual funds acknowledge that these risks exist, many are convinced that their organizations have taken adequate precautions to detect or prevent them. But have they? A fraud incident relating to trading, market manipulation, financial and/or investor reporting or misappropriations, among others, can result in a significant loss of investor confidence and capital withdrawals. In worst-case scenarios, it can even create run-on-the-fund situations and can cause assets under management to substantially decline. + Full Document (PDF; 373 KB) + Webcast: Investment Management Anti-Fraud Programs: Are You Ready If the Government Launches an Investigation Free registration required. (Source: Docuticker) Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:00:11 +0100 669834 http://www.shore.com/commentary/weblogs/2008/11/siia-panel-on-19-november-in-nyc-cloud.html I am looking forward to moderating a panel for the SIIA on the 19th that will focus on cloud computing and its impact on publishing. I am particularly pleased that we have a balance of publishers and technology companies that will be able to address the issue from both a media perspective and an enterprise perspective, an aspect that should be of particular interest to SIIA members. Marc Frons, CTO of The New York Times, Larry Schwartz, the President of Newstex, Charles Matheson of EMC and Matt Turner of Mark Logic will provide a multi-dimensional view of how important cloud computing will be to shaping the competitive landscape of the content industry. Please register soon for this event.Below are the preliminary questions that I've assembled for our panel, if you have additional or alternative questions that you'd like to have asked please add them to the comments of this post. See you on the 19th in NYC - or online via the webcast!1. How does your company use cloud computing to provide better services for your clients/audiences? How do your clients/audiences benefit from it? What really is the cloud from your perspective?2. The key advantages of cloud computing revolve around scalability, economy, ease of deployment, and ease of content and services integration. Which of these are offering you and your clients the most “bang for the buck?”3. Why should enterprise and media oriented publishers care about cloud computing? What real advantages can it provide to them in the marketplace?4. When we say “cloud computing” there are three basic types of networks that can support content from cloud computing: enterprise networks, public networks, clouds that combine both enterprise and public networks. Looking at how enterprises are using cloud computing to access content, how open are they today to using cloud computing to combine their internal and external content resources?5. ... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 669648 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/11/01/finding-and-using-the-best-immigration-data-resources/ Finding and Using the Best Immigration Data Resources Immigration is a polarizing topic in the United States, with people sharply divided about whether it is a positive or negative force for the country. Underlying these strong opinions are assumptions about the number and characteristics of foreigners living in the United States. What are the data behind these assumptions and how credible is the information? On Oct. 16, 2008, the Migration Policy Institute and the Population Reference Bureau convened four experts to discuss how to find and use the most accurate and accessible data on immigration, primarily from government sources. They discussed the opportunities and pitfalls of existing data sources such as the statistics on annual immigration flows from the Department of Homeland Security, and data from the decennial census, the Current Population Surveys, and the American Community Survey. Below are links to the webcasts of the presentations. + Immigration: Data Matters (PDF; 2.2 MB) Webcasts, podcasts, PPT presentations also available. Source: Population Reference Bureau (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:42:07 +0100 668637 http://www.infotogo.com/users/index.asp?RSS=32069 "For more than 20 years, the FBI and CIA conducted surveillance on folk musicians and folklorists organizing the folksong revivals of the 1930s and 1940s. As a result of speaker David Dunaway&rsq... (Source: Info To Go: Navigating the Internet) Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:22:00 +0100 668406 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2096 This is being webcast right now (Oct 30, 2008, 12:30 PM EST) http://www.newamerica.net/events/2008/tech_smackdown Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Reed Hundt Debate the Candidates' Tech Agendas "Join us as two top presidential campaign advisers debate these specific issues and describe the candidates' respective visions for maximizing technological innovation and access." Due to a last-minute scheduling conflict, Douglas Holtz-Eakin is unable to participate in today's event, and the McCain campaign will not be sending an alternate spokesperson. The event will proceed as scheduled with Reed Hundt representing the Obama campaign. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:37:43 +0100 667667 http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2008/10/digital-barriers-to-education-help-no-one.html My Director forwarded this article to me, which I found fascinating: "'Digital Disconnect' divides kids, educators" in eSchoolNews.  What I found most fascinating was the following line from the study: Students who took the survey said the major obstacles to their use of technology at school include filters that block the web sites they need and administrators who impose rules that limit their technology use.Can we have a better argument against filtering?  Against blocking ports, blocking sites, blocking programs, blocking use?Project Tomorrow conducted the study (titled Speak Up 2007) and held a webcast reporting the findings (which is archived so you can watch it).  The report itself is available as a PDF as well, including many more interesting findings about students feelings about particular blocks, specific technology success rates, and more.  The study was done in 2007, mind you, so my guess is that it's even worse now.  I hear more and more every month about schools and libraries tightening the leashes on their computers, especially those used by kids and teens.   While I firmly believe that is the exact opposite approach that we should be taking, I understand that it is driven by fear.  Fear of a lot of different things.  I hope for a better day, and hope that school librarians can use this report as a way to explain to administrators and other stakeholders how important open access and technology support is to libraries, schools, and the education of our young people. (Source: LibrarianInBlack) Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:17:14 +0100 667965 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2008/10/sasaki Tuesday, October 28, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:22:03 +0100 666650 http://www.slaw.ca/2008/10/27/ctls-launched-today/ Dean Mayo Moran today presided over a webcast to launch UofT Law’s participation in Georgetown’s Center for Transnational Legal Studies which brings together in London faculty and students from ten nations and five continents to study international, transnational and comparative law. Georgetown Law Professors David Cole and Nina Pillard are the Academic Directors for the Center’s first year. Georgetown’s initial partners in the Center include the Free University of Berlin, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, King’s College London, University of Melbourne, National University of Singapore, University of Sao Paulo, University of Torino and University of Toronto. Read more… or Read more right here… » MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2008 Senior Practitioners Perspectives on the Emerging Global Lawyer Milton Regan, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator) Lord Daniel Brennan QC, UK House of Lords and Member, Matrix Chambers Ted Burke, CEO, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP William P. Frank, Partner, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP Richard Price, Partner, Shearman & Sterling, LLP1 Robert Ruyak, Managing Partner and CEO, Howrey LLP Carole Silver, Executive Director, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Georgetown University Law Center2) WEBCAST: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2008 12:00 p.m. (LIVE Webcast available at 8:00 a.m. EST) Center for Transnational Legal Studies Ceremonial Opening WEBCAST: 3:00 p.m. (LIVE Webcast unavailable; archived Webcast available following the event) Global Legal Education: Reflections from the Faculty of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies T. ... Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:24:40 +0100 666807 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2008/10/acrllama-spring-virtual-institute.html ACRL/LAMA Spring Virtual Institute ProposalsDecember 10, 2008 Deadlinehttp://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/springvirtualinstitute.cfm.Don’t miss the opportunity to play an active part in the 2008 ACRL/LAMA Joint Virtual Institute, “Leading from the Middle: Managing in All Directions”. Submit a proposal now for an interactive webcast or online poster session. Submissions will be accepted through Monday, December 10, 2007.The ACRL/LAMA Joint Virtual Institute, to be offered April 29-30, 2008, will offer a forum for the exploration of issues and challenges facing middle managers and leaders. The institute will take place in an online conference community, which will provide an environment in which groups of participants, both small and large, can gather electronically to learn, collaborate, and network. The institute will offer both synchronous and asynchronous sessions and program sessions will be archived after the institute for viewing on-demand. Proposals are invited for session formats including:Interactive Webcast (Synchronous)An interactive Webcast allows you to give a presentation in real-time, while also showing visuals, such as PowerPoint slides and desktop applications. Participants can also interact by talking with live audio or typing in questions and comments.Online Poster Session (Asynchronous)The online poster session is a PowerPoint presentation that includes your voice recorded along with each slide. The poster session is posted in the online conference community area, where participants may review it at any time during the conference.Submissions will be accepted through December 10, 2007. Full text of the Call for Proposals is available online at http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/springvirtualinstitute.cfm. Questions about the Call for Proposals or the Joint Spring Virtual Institute should be directed to msutton@ala.org, 312-280-2522. ... Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 666628 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/432676681/who-cares.html Lorenz, George Marcus: "Journals? Who cares?", anthropologi.info, October 25, 2008.  Excerpt: When George Marcus, one of the most influential anthropologists, was in Oslo recently, I asked him what he thinks about Open access. His answer surprised me. He said: “Journals? Who cares?” There is little original thinking in journals, no longer exciting debates, he told me. “Maybe it’s because I’m getting older. I don’t care.” He explained that “journals are meant to establish people”. They are more important for one’s career. George Marcus offered similar pessimistic views in an interview he gave for the journal Cultural Anthropology (subscription needed) in spring. Among other things, he said, that there are no new ideas in anthropology.... Comment.  Did this transcript miss something or did George Marcus miss something?  Even if we concede for the sake of argument that there are no new ideas in the field of anthropology, and that journals are more about advancing careers than advancing research, Marcus' answer was not responsive.  Apparently he thinks OA is all about journals, which it isn't.  It's all about access, which may be through journals or repositories or many other vehicles (like wikis, ebooks, multimedia webcasts, P2P networks, RSS feeds...).  It's as if someone had asked, "What do you think about freedom of speech?" and he answered, "Public speaking?  Who cares?  It's all grandstanding and vanity."  (Source: Open Access News) Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 666111 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/12831/12831/ I’ve linked to Steve Sauders‘ webcasts on website performance optimization before. Here’s another. Turns out that he’s co-chairing the O’Reilly Velocity conference in June. (Source: MaisonBisson.com) Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:15:26 +0100 665897 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2008/10/bussell Tuesday, October 21st, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:30:00 +0100 663666 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Register_Now_for_Upcoming_ACRL_eLearning_Events-1 Using Blended Librarian principles, the webcast will also explore how to appropriately identify and design library services for a Course/Learning Man (Source: pligg - all) Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:00:19 +0100 663594 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/10/16/solec-2008-video-webcast-october-22-and-23/ The State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference will be available as a “live” video webcast October 22 and October 23.  Join us for two full days of programming on-line at http://epa.gov/greatlakes/live Highlights for Wednesday, October 22 “State of the Great Lakes” (starting at 9 AM Eastern time) Contaminants, Biotic Communities and Invasive Species Coastal Zones and Aquatic Habitats Human Health, Land Use, Resource Utilization, and Climate Change Keynote Speaker - Thomas Homer-Dixon Impacts of Changing Land Use Nearshore Terrestrial Ecosystems Coastal Wetlands Nearshore Waters - biological, physical, chemical features Highlights for Thursday, October 23 “Ecosystem Status Reports: Lakes and Connecting Channels” (starting at 7:30 AM Eastern time) Lake Superior - Non-native species Lake Michigan - Botulism Lake Huron - Beaches and Recreational Water Quality St. Clair-Detroit River Connecting Channel - Nutrients and algal blooms Lake Erie - Nutrients and Harmful Algal Blooms Niagara River - Contaminants Lake Ontario - Impacts of Water Levels Keynote Speaker Peter Annin - “Great Lakes Water Wars” A detailed video webcast agenda is available at http://epa.gov/greatlakes/live. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:41:10 +0100 661549 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nnlm/dragonfly/~3/421772270/ Please join NN/LM PNR on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 for the Medical Library Association’s educational webcast Survival Tips and Stories: Expanding the Library’s Services in Times of Disaster. PNR will host the broadcast from 11am-1pm Pacific time at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library (Lab C). There is plenty of room in the lab, [...] (Source: Dragonfly) Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:47:01 +0100 661509 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/10/15/register-today-for-weekly-itp-webcasts/ Sign up for an upcoming DOE Industrial Technologies Program Webcast to learn more about industrial efficiency and ITP’s latest tools and technologies. You’ll also get information on Save Energy Now assessment opportunities for your plant. The following Webcasts, held on Thursdays from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST, are being offered by ITP at no-cost: October 16, 2008—Energy Assessments: What are the Benefits to Large Facilities? October 23, 2008—ITP Software Decision Tools Awareness October 30, 2008—Quick PEP Tool Demonstration and Results November 6, 2008—Energy Assessments: What are the Benefits to Small and Medium Facilities? November 13, 2008—Assessing Data Center Energy Use November 20, 2008—Super Boiler Technology Register today! (Source: Environmental News Bits) Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:41:19 +0100 661555 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/textundblog/~3/421545213/ Das aktuelle Calexico-Album «Carried To Dust» ist, wie ich gestern schon auf Twitter schrieb, ganz und gar großartig. Wer - wie ich - Fan der kalifornischen Band ist, dürfte sich für diesen spontan anberaumten Calexico-Live-Webcast interessieren (aus Zeitknappheit zitiere ich hier die Pressemeldung von Fabchannel): LIVE WEBCAST CALEXICO KONZERT HEUTE ABEND Schau dir die ganze Amsterdam Show auf Fabchannel.com an! Der online-Konzert-Kanal Fabchannel.com kündigt den exklusiven Live Video Webcast des Calexicos Konzert heute Abend an. Auf www.fabchannel.com/calexico könnt ihr live in das Amsterdamer Publikum eintauchen und die komplette Show im legendären Paradiso über einen High-quality Stream anschauen. Der kostenlose Live Webcast beginnt um 20:30 Uhr. Support Band sind Get Well Soon aus Deutschland, ebenfalls per Live Webcast zu sehen, Start 19:30 Uhr. Später werden die kompletten Calexico Aufnahmen in das Fabchannel Online Video Archiv hinzugefügt. Solltest du also aus irgendeinem Grund den Live - Webcast verpassen, gibt es die Möglichkeit die Show wenige Tage später in unserem Archiv zu sehen. Fabchannel streamt wöchentlich Webcasts und nimmt Konzerte im Paradiso und Melkweg in Amsterdam auf. Fabchannel hat das größte und vielseitigste Konzert Video Archiv im Internet. Das Archiv umfasst mehr als 900 Konzerte in voller Länge, wie z.B. Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird, Elbow, Okkervil River, Paul Weller and Josh Ritter. Wenn ich’s schaffe, schaue ich da selbst rein. (Source: Text & Blog) Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:54:33 +0100 661477 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/10/15/webcast-libraries-vs-it-departments/ Libraries vs. IT Departments Librarians and IT staff might share more similarities than they would like to admit. Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast, Tech Therapy’s hosts, talk about the rift between the two groups. Source: Chronicle of Higher Education (Tech Therapy) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:41:24 +0100 660932 http://acrlog.org/2008/10/14/another-story-about-ignorant-students/ One thing that anonymous academic librarian bloggers are good for is sharing stories about their “ignorant” students. It would be hard to imagine any academic blogger who goes by his or her real name relating anecdotes about encounters with such students or even referring to them as ignorant or stupid. For one thing, the incident could be identifiable and possibly tracked back to the individual involved - which could all be quite embarrassing to the individual and library - not unlike the recent case of the public librarian who wrote a book with thinly veiled stories about her library’s awful patrons (BTW she was fired). I just happened to come across a blog called “The Singing Librarian” which had a post titled “Librarians vs. Student Ignorance”. Long story short, some students came to the reference desk (this happened to a colleague of SL) and said they couldn’t find any books on nursing in the library catalog. Turns out, upon librarian investigation, the students were spelling it “nersing”. Singing Librarian finds this and other incidents of student ignorance quite shocking. While he doesn’t use the term stupid or ignorant to describe the students, I detect a slight degree of contempt for these students who lack basic knowledge we should expect of an undergraduate - especially a student in a nursing course who can’t spell nursing. I may be wrong. Singing Librarian may be genuinely worried and rightfully points out that our jobs now extend into the teaching of basic knowledge that was somehow never taught in the primary grades. When I read this it reminded me of an email I received that was critical of my use of “dumber students” in the title a recent Blended Librarians webcast. I apparently offended another academic librarian for disrespecting our students. ... Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 660793 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2008/10/schultze Tuesday, October 14, 12:30PM Berkman Conference Room, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MARSVP Required (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 PM ET on 10/14.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:30:00 +0100 660640 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digizen/~3/420539706/ Como parte de las actividades que se realizarán en el Día del Acceso Abierto ofreceremos en unos minutos la presentación Sólo se pierde lo que se guarda, sólo se gana lo que se da”: Recursos Educativos Abiertos y el futuro de la Universidad. Si toda sale como lo esperado tendremos un webcast de la actividad que comenzará a las 10:30 AM. ¡Qué viva el movimiento de acceso abierto al conocimiento! Recursos Educativos Abiertos View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Technorati Tags: Recursos Educativos Abiertos Etiquetas: Recursos Educativos Abiertos, Recursos Educativos Abiertos Entradas relacionadas Presentación sobre recursos educativos abiertos (0) Archivo en pdf del manual sobre recursos educativos abiertos (1) Modulo 9: Desarrollo y Colaboración de los REA (0) National Science Foundation y los recursos educativos abiertos (0) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:24:37 +0100 660803 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/10/13/october-issue-of-the-industrial-technologies-program-e-bulletin-now-available/ The October 2008 issue of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) E-Bulletin is now available. Read this month’s issue to learn about: 128 U.S. manufacturers being honored with 2008 Save Energy Now award. A new report that summarizes ITP’s 2006 successes, including 104 commercial technologies that have saved $5.54 billion How the steel industry is reducing energy consumption by participating in Save Energy Now assessments Managing energy costs and generating revenue with demand response A recertification process for DOE Qualified Specialists and training instructors Providing your input on a new ISO energy management standard in development The Superior Energy Performance Web site, which provides the latest news on an ANSI-accredited Plant Certification Program, ISO energy management standard, and more An opportunity to test new energy assessment draft standards How to improve High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamp efficiency by 40%  with energy-saving controls These upcoming events: J.R. Simplot Energy Symposium; the Society of Plastics Engineers New Technology Symposium; Supplier Relationship Management for Utilities Conference and Seminar; and a Virtual Energy Forum ITP project opportunities, software tools, technical publications, six no-cost webcasts, and more (Source: Environmental News Bits) Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:17:40 +0100 661575 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/10/13/resources-of-the-week-a-half-dozen-lc-jewels/ Resources of the Week: A Half-Dozen LC Jewels By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor The Library of Congress website is ginormous and multifaceted. While we regularly post useful features and items that we learn about, we readily acknowledge that there is probably plenty we are missing. Still…here’s a small collection of LC resources we like. If we’ve missed any of your favorites, please let us know. We’ll probably feature another collection like this in the future. ++ Baseball in the Library of Congress: A Selected List of Sites The sites listed below all include, to various degrees, graphic or textual materials relating to baseball. These links are all found on Library of Congress Web pages, and do not include materials found on other web sites, except for those provided by the Library’s program American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. The links were collected by staff in the Music Division (Performing Arts Reading Room), where one can find an extensive bibliography of published baseball music and songs (included below). Your ResourceShelf editors are serious baseball fans, and we know the game has a loyal following among information professionals generally. (SLA’s Baseball Caucus is a group of the nicest, most knowledgeable fans you’ll ever meet.) And this guide is a great pathfinder for all the baseball-related materials on LC websites. ++ Business Reference Services: Indexes, Bibliographies, and Guides This resource has four components: Guide to Finding Business Information at the Library of Congress This publication describes selected print resources in accounting, company and industry information, entrepreneurship, international trade, statistics, business education, regional economic information, non-profit organizations and trade associations, and the federal budget and expenditures. ... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:12:17 +0100 660076 http://oberlincollegelibrary.blogspot.com/2008/10/international-open-access-day-october.html Tuesday, October 14, is the first international Open Access Day. Join us at 7:00 p.m. for a live webcast and participate in a lively discussion in the Academic Commons electronic classroom on the main level of Mudd. The webcast features Sir Richard Roberts, Ph.D., F.R.S., joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 for discovering split genes and RNA splicing and one of 26 Nobel Prize-winners to sign an Open Letter to U.S. Congress in support of taxpayer access to publicly funded research.Open Access is a growing international movement that makes peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature available on the Internet without barriers. Open Access Day is an opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the benefits of making research information free and openly accessible.Open Access Day is jointly sponsored by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture. (Source: reading girl speaks) Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 659887 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digizen/~3/416025243/ Como parte de la celebración del Día de Acceso Abierto al conocimiento en el Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez ofreceremos la presentación “Sólo se pierde lo que se guarda; sólo se gana lo que se da”: Los recursos educativos abiertos y el futuro de la universidad. Habrá un webcast de la actividad por http://www.uprm.edu . Etiquetas: Recursos Educativos Abiertos (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:24:54 +0100 658965 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4725 (Source: Berkman Blog) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:57:32 +0100 658324 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/lingua/2008/10/come_and_celebrate_the_worlds.html UBC Library has joined SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture and 65 other institutions in the First International Open Access Day. What is Open Access? Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society. (From: http://openaccessday.org/what-is-open-access) To help us celebrate this event we are proud to present a number of distinguished speakers in our community who will be describing how they participate in the open access movement. Schedule of Events Introduction to Open Access & cIRcle: UBC’s Information Repository 11am– 12:20pm Joy Kirchner and Hilde Colenbrander (UBC Library) Using Wikipedia in the Classroom: an OA medium for research and student work 1 pm – 1:40 pm Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray (Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, UBC) The Public Knowledge Project: providing open source software for OA publishing 2 pm – 2:40 pm Brian Owen (SFU Library) Open Medicine: a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access general medical journal 3 pm – 3:40 pm Dr. Anita Palepu (Internal Medicine, UBC) OA Day Worldwide Webcast: taxpayer access to publicly funded research 4 pm – 5 pm Keynote address: Sir Richard Roberts, Ph.D., F.R.S Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302) (Source: Linguistics and Language Resources) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:29:39 +0100 659961 http://www.aceee.org/press/scorecast08.wmv 2008 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard Source: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy From press release: Energy efficiency is the “first fuel” in the race for clean and secure energy resources. Faced with rapidly increasing energy prices, constraints in energy supply and transmission, and energy reliability concerns, states are turning to energy efficiency as the most reliable, cost-effective, and quickest resource to deploy. States are now investing two to three times as much as the federal government toward energy efficiency programs and resource. In the race for clean energy resources, states are adopting aggressive energy efficiency policies, increasing investments in efficiency programs, and improving efficiency in their own facilities and fleets. While some states have been making commitments toward energy efficiency for decades, others are just getting started, and still others fall far behind. We present here a comprehensive state energy efficiency scorecard to document best practices and recognize leadership among the states. The scorecard can serve as a means of benchmarking state efforts, with the goal of encouraging states to continue to raise the bar in efficiency commitments and providing a roadmap for states that want to catch up to the leaders. In 2007, ACEEE released The State Energy Efficiency Scorecard for 2006, which was the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive approach to scoring and ranking states on the adoption and implementation of energy efficiency policies and programs. This is a 2008 update to the scorecard, ranking all fifty states and the District of Columbia on energy efficiency policies and programs. ... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:02:47 +0100 658233 http://canucklibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/10/only-6-days-away-tuesday-will-be.html Two important events are happening next Tuesday, October 14th.First it's Canada's 40th general election. My first time voting in Québec! Should I vote BQ just because I can? I'm just kidding! My riding is Liberal, has been for 40 years and will be for many more; very little chance that it'll change. Even so, I still haven't decided where my vote is going. I had planned on going to my local candidates' debate last night, but the plan was thrown out by a friend coming over to watch Buffy. You see where my priorities lie (lay? chickens lay, humans lie?).I visited http://www.theundecided.ca to play around and see what they suggest. I don't think the site completely worked for me whether because I'm on a Mac or using Firefox I don't know. Anyway, it helped a bit. I've actually visited the websites for all five top parties and I subscribe to their YouYube feeds. I follow the National Post's Twitter since they aggregate from all the parties. I watched the debate in French and English. So, I'm trying to inform mysef but really I still feel like my vote doesn't matter. I'm voting anyway though, and you should too. Canadians, if you haven't registered that's ok; just bring your ID to a polling station on election day and you can vote!The other important event is Open Access Day! It's time to get the word out about Open Access journals and publishing.Open Access is the principle that publicly funded research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers put their weight behind it.Is your library taking part? In mine we're setting up a booth, handing out stuff, answering questions and then at 7 pm we'll be broadcasting the Webcast with Sir Richard Roberts and Voices of Open Access videos from one of the reference computers. ... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 658546 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/10/06/webinar-the-evolving-role-of-the-business-researcher-a-dow-jones-research-study/ The Evolving Role of the Business Researcher: A Dow Jones Research Study Today’s Information Professionals and knowledge workers perform a far more valuable function to your business than discovering and organising information. It is in the extraction of facts, in-depth analysis and timely distribution of information where they really add value. In late 2007. Dow Jones launched Research the Researcher, an on-going survey of Professional Researchers, focused on bringing the customer experience forward in product strategy. Drawing from this in-depth research and analysis, Dow Jones Factiva has developed strategic enhancements such as De-duplication, Widgets and Factiva Reader for External Distribution to enable customers to become more efficient and demonstrate value throughout their organizations. Please join Dow Jones for a one hour webinar where we will share key findings from this research project. Product Manager, Ken Sickles and Market Research Manager, Ellen Maccabe will discuss the results of our research and how emerging technologies, organizational trends, and end user expectations are impacting the way researchers work. Free registration required. (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:19:08 +0100 657360 http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/govblog/?p=384 The United Nation’s has launched a channel on YouTube. From the UN YouTube channel: The UN Channel features videos on a wide range of global topics including climate change, development, human rights and peace and security. UNTV also provides daily coverage of events, briefings and meetings at the UN headquarters in New York, at www.un.org/webcast. Thanks to Annelise Sklar, the Intl Docs Librarian at UCSD, for sharing this with us via google reader. (Source: GovBlog: UC Berkeley) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:14:20 +0100 657647 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/berkeley/JNnl/~3/412974397/ The United Nation’s has launched a channel on YouTube. From the UN YouTube channel: The UN Channel features videos on a wide range of global topics including climate change, development, human rights and peace and security. UNTV also provides daily coverage of events, briefings and meetings at the UN headquarters in New York, at www.un.org/webcast. Thanks to Annelise Sklar, the Intl Docs Librarian at UCSD, for sharing this with us via google reader. (Source: GovBlog: UC Berkeley) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 657713 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/410257726/open-library-environment-project-is-soa-right.php OLE – The Open Library Environment Project has been around for about a year now, and I am guilty of not monitoring as closely as I would have liked to.  So the opportunity to listen to their recent webcast seemed a great way to get up to speed again.  Following the instructions on the OLE Project site to replay the webcast, led me to one of the most unusual webcast playback experience I’ve had for a while.   To see the slides you have to click through to a service run by Adobe Acrobat, which provides a good representation of the webcast environment, complete with chat traffic in real time.  The problem then is that you have to use the telephone system to get the audio.  This is not a cheap exercise for those of us having to dial international – at least with Skype Out you can keep the costs down a bit.  Synchronising the listening with the viewing is then a bit of a challenge, especially if you have to pause and restart. Anyway enough about the experience – what about the content? What is clear is that the Mellon Funded Project has got a great deal of attention and significant partners from academic and national libraries.  They also have a challenging and worthy goal, which they are taking significant early steps towards: “By the end of our project, we will have a design for a next-generation library system using Service Oriented Architecture. We also will have built a community of interest that can be tapped to help build the OLE framework.” The webcast inevitably, especially in the QA section, swung between the low-level detail, the strategic approach, and things like privacy which are more the policy concern of potential implementing libraries than the project itself. ... Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:29:06 +0100 656711 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/409153710/survival-tips-and-stories-expanding.html Survival Tips and Stories: Expanding the Library's Services in Times of Disaster - MLA's Educational Webcast - Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. CT (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:50:06 +0100 655887 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/griffey/~3/408750331/ Sat through a webcast today updating people on the Open Library Environment project, a joint effort between a ton of amazing libraries to build a modern, open source library system. While I wish them the best of luck, I have to say that I have my concerns about the project. My largest concern is that too many cooks really do spoil the soup. I’ve never seen anything truly great come from committee, and I worry that there are far too many hands in this to really push it where it needs to go. Really amazing breakthroughs and products are almost always the design of one or a very few people, pushing to make the thing inside their heads real. With that said, I hope this project produces something amazing and proves me wrong. What would I want out of a ground-up library system? A modular design, with logical connectors that allow for data sharing…and that data sharing uses open, web standards (not another “library” standard). Support for a centralized cloud database, with local records being limited to unique, archival items in the library’s special collections. Support for open sharing between catalogs, as well as sharing data between other websites and services, built in. A standards-based OPAC. Built in support for mobile use, including the backend systems. A repository system built in, to hold digital objects of any sort…if I want to catalog a video, let me embed the digital copy right into the system. There’s lots and lots more. I’m hoping they get it right…I’ll be watching, and hopefully helping where I can. ShareThis (Source: Pattern Recognition) Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:40:11 +0100 655706 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2008/09/30/2783 Ein schönes Beispiel für den Mehrwert, den eine Berufsorganisation durch Web 2.0-Technologie schaffen kann: The MLA Board of Directors is happy to announce the launch of MLA Connections, a blog for and about issues that concern MLA and its members. The MLA Board decided to establish the blog to provide an easy way for the MLA Board and the membership to communicate with each other about these issues. We encourage you to participate in this blog and give your valuable input. Please visit MLA Connections today to register and read more about the blog. Related posts 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) Santander 1 (1) (Source: medinfo) Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:45:59 +0100 655155 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Attend_the_first_OLE_Project_webcast_on_October_1_2008 Mellon Foundation, the Open Library Environment (OLE) Project will convene the academic library community in the design of an Open Library Management (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:32 +0100 654966 http://infoblog.infopeople.org/2008/09/communities_of_learning_cookin.php For anyone still in doubt as to how quickly online communities of learning are developing, today’s Infopeople webinar featuring Brenda Hough and Stephanie Gerding from the MaintainIT Project provides a wonderful example of how far we have come. The collaborations between Infopeople, MaintainIT, and a variety of other organizations dedicated to providing the best possible learning opportunities and resources to those working in libraries seem to be growing so quickly that even those of us immersed in the process need a score card to keep up with everything. MaintainIT, with a three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and with strong connections to Tech Soup and WebJunction, is a combination of a social networking site and a trainer-teacher-learner’s dream in terms of what it offers. You can’t read more than a few words from the MaintainIT Project’s home page without immediately understanding what it offers: “We track down good ideas so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. The team at MaintainIT interviews hundreds of librarians, staff, and tech support personnel about supporting public computers, and publishes their good ideas in free cookbooks and articles.” Hough and Gerding, through MaintainIT webinars and other activities, have developed a strong following among those involved in library training-teaching-learning endeavors—which, as noted in previous Infoblog postings, is a group which includes just about everyone working in libraries today. Their Infopeople session today attracted several of us already familiar with their offerings and introduced a larger audience of trainer-teacher-learners to the wide variety of free online training resources available to library staff, members, and guests. ... Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:46:25 +0100 654756 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=OLE_Project_Webcast_October_1_3-5pm_EST OLE Project participants will host a webcast to share information about the project and invite comments and questions. The webcast will be held Wedn (Source: pligg - all) Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:21 +0100 654429 http://www.lisnews.org/ole_project_webcast_october_1_3_5pm_est OLE Project participants will host a webcast to share information about the project and invite comments and questions. The webcast will be held Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 3pm-5pm EST. This webcast is free or charge and open to anyone. Please register in advance. A more detailed agenda and information about logging into the webcast will be posted within the next week. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:01:56 +0100 654609 http://lisnews.org/ole_project_webcast_october_1_3_5pm_est OLE Project participants will host a webcast to share information about the project and invite comments and questions. The webcast will be held Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 3pm-5pm EST. This webcast is free or charge and open to anyone. Please register in advance. A more detailed agenda and information about logging into the webcast will be posted within the next week. (Source: LISNews.org) Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:01:56 +0100 654396 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/406274842/2223 This from one of my mailing lists: OLE Project participants will host a webcast to share information about the project and invite comments and questions. The webcast will be held Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 3pm-5pm EST. This webcast is free or charge and open to anyone. Please register in advance at: http://survey.oit.duke.edu/ViewsFlash/servlet/viewsflash?cmd=showform&pollid=CIT!OLEWebcast A more detailed agenda and information about logging into the webcast will be posted within the next week. Learn more about the OLE Project here. (Source: What I Learned Today...) Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:46:17 +0100 654332 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/406274410/wests-bank-bail.html West LegalEdcenter and West Legalworks is offering a free live webcast titled "Bailout or Washout: An Analysis of the Treasury Proposal to Purchase Mortgage-Related Assets," today, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern. [Register from this page] The webcast will... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 655782 http://www.libraryman.com/blog/2008/09/28/act-fast-or-it-might-go-away-pandora-and-internet-radio/ It looks like Pandora (and their amazing Music Genome Project) might be in trouble. The “Where the heck did my internet radio go?!” kind of trouble. And it’s not just Pandora in very immediate danger, it is internet radio at large (including my second favorite internet radio station, Radio Nigel). You really do care about Pandora and internet radio, really you do. Here are a few reasons why and an ask as well: I’ve been fascinated with Pandora and their content delivery model for years now. Pandora tries to demo a new kind of service model to libraries. If they go bye-bye they’ll never be able to work with us. Work with us? What am I talking about? While I haven’t blogged about it before, I know for a fact that Pandora loves and supports libraries. I personally know a group of librarians and libraries that Pandora folks help in a pretty significant way. I’d be happy to talk to you about it in person if you have questions. In the meantime, let me offer my Pandora shirt as an inkling that I am being honest about this. So here’s the ask. And it doesn’t come from me: “From: tim.westergren@pandora.com To: *************** Subject: PANDORA urgently needs your help: Bill Just Introduced to Save Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:18:21 -0700 Hi, it’s Tim from Pandora; After a yearlong negotiation, Pandora, SoundExchange and the RIAA are finally optimistic about reaching an agreement on royalties that would save Pandora and Internet radio. But just as we’ve gotten close, large traditional broadcast radio companies have launched a covert lobbying campaign to sabotage our progress. ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:35:45 +0100 654650 http://nnlm.gov/mar/blog/2008/09/26/mar-hosts-mla-webcastsurvival-tips-and-stories-expanding-the-librarys-services-intimes-of-disaster-november-12-2-pm/ Join your colleagues on November 12 as NN/LM MAR hosts Medical Library Association’s fall webcast, “Survival Tips and Stories: Expanding the Library’s Services in Times of Disaster.” More information about the webcast is available here: http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/disaster/ Take advantage of this national continuing education event. Share ideas with your colleagues about current topics, learn techniques from [...] (Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog) Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:28:28 +0100 653666 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/09/26/report-insights-regarding-undergraduate-preference-for-lecture-capture/ Insights regarding undergraduate preference for lecture capture (PDF; 412 KB) This research study set out to understand student attitudes toward the value of adding lecture capture to existing courses and to assess preferences for classes with a streaming option. A survey was sent to 29,078 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April 2008. Average response rate exceeded 25%. Of the survey participants, a significant number of undergraduates (47%) have taken a class in which lectures were recorded and made available online. Respondents answered 10 multiple-choice questions related to their perspective regarding streaming lectures and preference for streaming content. Source: UW E-Business Institute See: I’ll Take My Lecture to Go, Please (Inside Higher Ed) (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:35:13 +0100 653007 http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2008/09/debates-go-forw.html Newton Minow, who has had an insider's role in the modern Presidential Debates including tonight's event, looks at who wins the presidential debates in today's Chicago Tribune (reprinted below  with permission).  He told me just now that he's very pleased that the debates will, in fact, go forward. But first, some background: Debating the debates - forum at Harvard on Sept 24, 2008 - webcast of Michael Dukakis (1988 presidential debater), Newton Minow (Commission on Presidential Debates), Craig LaMay (coauthor of Inside the Presidential Debates) and Ellen Hume, (MIT Center for Future Civic Media). US News and World Report - Should the Presidential Debates include third parties? September 22, 2008 - Ralph Nader says Yes ; Newton Minow says NoHow many third party candidates do you think there are this year? Read this and you'll see the problem. ===== chicagotribune.com         With debate, public wins            By Newton N. Minow  and Craig L. LaMay                    September 26, 2008         Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are scheduled to meet tonight at the University of Mississippi for the first of their three televised debates. The presidential debates are among the most-watched television programs in the world, up there with the FIFA World Cup, the Olympics and the Super Bowl. Some 60 million Americans will follow the debates on radio, television and the Internet. Worldwide, another 60 million listeners, viewers and computer users will join them. Tonight's debate—we assume it will take place, though Sen. McCain has sought to postpone it—will debut a new format designed to get the candidates to talk directly to each other, rather than to the moderator. ... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 653542 http://infoblog.infopeople.org/2008/09/podcasting_and_more_cutting_th_1.php It’s not as if we haven’t heard of podcasting—producing simple and inexpensive audio and video recordings which can be shared online with anyone interested in what we are doing. We may, on the other hand, be wondering what it means to us and to the library members and guests we serve. As mentioned in the first of this two-part series, the answer can affect our ability to meet our users’ needs. “I think it’s something that is a technology or a tool that has become very mainstream,” Infopeople instructor David Free noted recently in discussing the Practical Podcasting and Videocasting workshops he is offering between now and November 2008. “You can get podcasts of TV shows and radio shows. It’s a technology that people in communities are going to be more used to seeing in other areas.” And it is already a format which is providing library staff and library members and guests with resources when they need the information—not just when we’re available to provide it. Podcasting is increasingly used to post basic as well as specialized information of interest to library users as well as to staff in need of brief and readily available training on a variety of topics. Infopeople itself offers a large variety of podcasts on its website—Michael Cart’s “Reviews” on books and those who write them; Joan Frye Williams and George Needham’s “Thinking Out Loud” series on innovations and contemporary issues in libraries; and archives of Infopeople webcasts and webinars from a variety of presenters. Free also suggests other podcast archives which may be of interest to those unfamiliar with the full potential of the format and the content it offers: the Los Angeles Public Library speaker series which has featured podcasts hosted by Alfred Molina, Debra Winger, Robert Scheer, and many others; the “Library Audio and Video to Go” series produced by the George C. ... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:09:06 +0100 652447 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GovernmentNewsForMontana/~3/403154384/epas-failure-to-declare-public-health.html From the Missoulian: "Documents show officials with the Environmental Protection Agency prepared in April 2002 to declare a public health emergency over asbestos contamination in Libby, but changed their minds around the same time they met with the White House."The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing today on EPA's Cleanup of the Superfund Site in Libby, Montana. The hearing web page includes prepared testimony from committee members, such as Senator Baucus, and witnesses. The page links to an archived webcast of the hearing and to a detailed report that describes the committee's investigation and findings. Source: Jalonick, M.C., AP (25 Sept. 2008). "EPA backed off emergency declaration in Libby." Missoulian. A1. (Source: Government News for Montana) Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 652781 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/23/webcast-greening-data-centers-practical-engineering-considerations-for-efficiency-cooling-and-modularity/ Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 11:00am PDT/1:00pm CDT/2:00pm EDT. The webcast is free and CE credits are available. Register now. There’s a lot of talk about greening data centers; a lot of ideas and concepts floating around that are interesting, but often backed with little or no data. There also is a rush to build data centers and get them online quickly, and in doing so, owners, engineers, and managers may not be planning adequately for growth, or leading them selves into problems that will surface in the future in a very expensive way. This one-hour Webcast will have three presentations by three experienced data center design engineers who will provide practical, detailed knowledge and experience aimed a helping engineers and owners design, build, and operate data centers with energy efficiency, modularity, and reliability in mind. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:28:26 +0100 653106 http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/LIB/DHLRefWeblog.nsf/dx/23092008114109AMSLKLEA.htm The new General Assembly General Debate website will provide a separate page for each individual speaker, with the speaker's photo, the scanned statement, the webcast of the speaker's statement, and a summary of the statement from the Press Release. See, for example, the Secretary-General's page. ... (Source: UN Pulse | A Service/Blog of the United Nations Library) Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 652184 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=22517 Quality and Environmental Impacts of Bottled Water (10 September 2008) Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water Quality Archived Webcast and Testimonies (PDFs) + Emily Lloyd, Commissioner New York City Department of Environmental Protection + Mae WuStaff Attorney, Health and Environment Program Natural Resources Defense Council + Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director Food & Water Watch + Dr. Stephen Edberg, Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Internal Medicine and Chemical Engineering Yale University School of Medicine + Joseph Doss, President and CEO International Bottled Water Association (Source: Docuticker) Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:35:12 +0100 650157 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Elsua/~3/395531349/ Yes, indeed, we are baaaaack! That is right, folks! We are back again at it! Here we go with another podcasting episode from The Sweettt Show, Living on the Bountiful Net that my good friend, and fellow co-host, just shared over at The Sweettt Podcast - Episode 7 - Conversations as The Future of Conferences. And we back into the action! Here is a short excerpt from what Matt wrote in that blog post that I am sure that you would be able to relate to quite a bit, specially if you get to travel, quite often, to various different conference events all over the place, and not just restrictive to a single geography or country, for instance. So here is the text: "In this episode, we really point out all the things that are wrong about the modern conference and presentation format. In our conclusion of our August 15th discussion, we contrast this old guard presentation style with a more refreshing approach in which the audience is a key contributor to the event. When people gather together within conferences, this is a knowledge sharing event, designed to maximize the sharing of insights and perspectives." At first sight you may be pondering that what we are actually doing is talking about the "barcamp" concept. No, we are not talking about such concept. In fact, we are talking about how we feel regular conferences would need to do to move into the 21st century. Have a listen to the whole episode and you will see what we mean… Matt already shared his show notes from this particular episode and you would be able to read them all over here. Now, it is my turn to give it a show and share with you folks what I got out of that episode and what I learn while recording it with Matt. ... Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:20:15 +0100 650420 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2008/09/16/2767 In MAKING THE SWITCH: A Physician’s Experience Replacing the PalmOS with the iPhone 3G erklärt der Pädiater Eric, wie ihm der Übergang vom PDA zum iPhone bekommen ist (Fettdruck durch mich): Many programs are clearly still missing. The most glaring absence is medical references such as 5-minute Clinical Consult or the handbooks of pediatrics. [...] For medical reference, I have been going online using Safari to search sites like eMedicine. Although it is nice to have the option of going online without the need for Wi-Fi, it is unreliable. Some parts of my hospital have poor 3G (or even any cell phone) coverage, making the search slow. [Die UMTS-Abdeckung dürfte in Deutschland besser sein] Additionally, heavy use of the Internet results in very fast drainage of the iPhone battery, which is quickly drained even without online usage. My overall experience switching to the iPhone has been positive. I am very encouraged that more medical programs are being released (see recent releases of Mediquations and iSilo), and I look forward to the reference companies like Skyscape and Lexi-Comp releasing LOCAL applications for the iPhone. [...] The major downside to the iPhone is its poor battery life. [...] Overall, however, the advantage of being able to get online, access any reference material you want and have an all-in-one PDA/phone is one that I would not trade. My pockets are lighter and my scrubs stay up! Meinungen von Ärzten iPod Touch - a replacement for your old PDA? iPhone 3G Review Health Information and the New iPhone iPhone 3G + Epocrates iPhone - M.D. Why Apple’s new iPhone will be so useful for physicians Medicine and the iPhone Medizinische Programme für das iPhone: ePocrates Mediquations - ein medizinischer Rechner mit 40 Kalkulationen Medcalc online Evernote for iPhone – Online Speicherlösung für Notizen, Audio, PDF, etc. ... Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:07:58 +0100 649052 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6595889.html?rssid=190 Hey David Macaulay fans—the MacArthur fellow and Caldecott medalist is hosting a live Webcast on October 7 at 10:00 a.m. EST, and you’re invited to participate. (Source: School Library Journal Breaking News) Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:19:48 +0100 648619 http://cubgovpubs.blogspot.com/2008/09/house-bill-would-amend-nihs-public.html The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Friday that the House of Representatives is considering a bill, the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, that would amend a National Institutes of Health policy requiring all NIH-funded researchers to submit electronic copies of their manuscripts to PubMed Central, a free government database of biomedical and life-sciences journal articles, and to make the material available to the public within 12 months of publication.You can read a summary of the policy on the National Cancer Institute's website. The House's Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on September 11, 2008, to debate the bill. The committee's website features a video webcast of this hearing.If you would like to learn more about copyright issues or read already-passed laws concerning copyright, we recommend that you check out our online subject guide on this topic. (Source: Government Publications Library--University of Colorado at Boulder) Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 648650 http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/wndReader.asp?ArticleId=50717 The New York Times Knowledge Network (www.nytimes.com/knownow) announced the launch of its second year of online programs, with 47 programs at 15 educational institutions and organizations across the country. The greatly expanded roster of fall programs covers a wide range of topics, including business, writing, history, health, and politics. The programs use The Times and its journalists as teaching resources for personal enrichment, professional development, certification programs, and some credit-bearing programs. In addition, many programs feature live webcasts that allow students to interact with and ask questions of participating Times reporters and editors. (Source: Infotoday Newsbreak RSS Feeds) Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 648570 http://acrlog.org/2008/09/15/dumber-students-or-out-of-touch-academics/ Are students getting dumber or are the academics working with them just getting more out of touch with those they teach? That debate has been hanging around for a while and now the noise level is increasing by more than a few decibles. I first wrote about this back in January 2006 when I discussed Mark Bauerlein’s observations about intellectually disengaged students. Even further back than that I published an essay in the Chronicle (2/4/04) called “The Infodiet” in which I pointed to the failings of the library profession’s desire to “googleize” search and retrieval systems, and questioned if our role as library educators wasn’t instead to help students learn effective research methods and critical thinking - and refusing to fall for the “good enough” mentality when it comes to research. Bauerlein went on to write The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (2008). This book and others were profiled in an article titled “On Stupidity about several recent books that question the thinking ability of today’s students. The article’s author, Thomas Benton, shares his own observations that point to an increase in ignorance among his students. Just recently Benton published a follow-up essay in which he focuses on strategies that educators can use to help students become more savvy learners and critical thinkers. I was interested to see that among his greatest concerns for this generation of students is their: difficulty following or making extended analytical arguments. In particular, they tend to use easily obtained, superficial, and unreliable online sources as a way of satisfying minimal requirements for citations rather than seeking more authoritative sources in the library and online. ... Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 648430 http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=1162 Our thanks to this week's sponsor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publisher of the new book The Way We Work by one of my personal heroes David Macaulay. Register to participate in his live webcast on the morning of October 7th! Posted by Bill on 9/13/2008 4:38:00 PM (Source: Unshelved) Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:17:02 +0100 647983 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/391526724/upcoming-acrl-webcast-life-work-balance.html Life-Work Balance - 90 Minute Webcast - October 7, 2008 - Presented by Melanie Hawks, Learning and Development Coordinator at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:07:13 +0100 647992 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=22437 New Media vs. New Censorship: The Authoritarian Assault on Information Source: Broadcasting Board of Governors From press release: The increasing sophistication of web censorship by authoritarian governments creates significant challenges to unleashing the Internet’s potential for information freedom, according to panelists speaking at a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) workshop on Sept. 10, 2008. Washington, DC, Sept. 11, 2008, September 11, 2008–The increasing sophistication of web censorship by authoritarian governments creates significant challenges to unleashing the Internet’s potential for information freedom, according to panelists speaking at a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) workshop on Sept. 10, 2008. “The tactics of those who seek to obstruct Internet freedom change as rapidly as Internet technology itself,” said Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, who opened the program. The BBG workshop also featured panel discussions on global trends in new media censorship and case studies on Iran, China, and the Middle East. Several speakers highlighted the struggle within China, one of the world’s most sophisticated censors, where censorship technology creates an illusion of openness by allowing access to certain websites, while still exerting control by filtering out specific content. (Source: Docuticker) Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:37:28 +0100 647428 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ouseful/~3/390342474/feedthru TechCrunch50's Video. Ustream.TV Show rerun, pre-recorded video clip. Free video streaming, Video blogs, webcast and podcast recording, re-broadcasts. Grockit - a massively scaleable, small group social, learning game platform... (Source: OUseful Info) Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0100 648064 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/390157868/international-participation-in-open.html The Open Access Day blog has a post on How can international folks get involved?: ... Open Access is an international movement so folks in Japan, the UK and Europe (to name but a few regions of the world) want to participate but they are finding the timing of the Webcasts (7pm East and West Coast USA) tricky. We chose 7pm because we want students to participate and for that to happen, we have to avoid conflicts with class times. Firstly, we apologize for this. We had relatively short notice of this project and for reasons of expediency we decided to organize two webcasts this year at times to suit that US, Canadian and South American time zones. Should other advocacy groups in this or other related fields, wish to organize a Webcast for others in their time zone to gather around, we would like to hear from you. Here’s what you can to participate, wherever in the world you are based: Webcasts - will be available for re-broadcast approximately 24 hours after the event (we’ll confirm finally when we know more) and so you could schedule your own Open Access Day the 2nd business day following October 14, 2008. Folks in the US, who don’t live on either coast (and there are a fair few of you out there!), you can always adjust your event timing and sign on to either coastal event depending on which makes more sense. ... Videos - a commissioned series, from a teacher, librarian, research funder, student and patient advocate about why they support open accesss, will be available from October 14, 2008. You could use those as a basis for organizing an event on the day (if you are outside the core time zones for the Webcasts but want to participate on October 14, 2008), and undertake other activities such as an overprice tagging at the library. Join our discussion list - when you sign up on the contact form, you become eligible to join a forum to share ideas and solve problems with others, this goes live on 9.8.08. (Source: Open Access News) Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 647152 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/10/practice-greenhealth-design-construction-series-grant-and-incentive-opportunities-for-green-building-in-health-care/ Friday, September 12, 2008 http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/tools/webinars/calendar/details/401 1:00 eastern, 12:00 central, 11:00 mountain and 10:00 pacific and will last for 90 minutes. Earn 0.5 AIA CEU:  Attendees of this ninety minute webcast can earn 0.5 CEU from the American Institute of Architects.  Upon the completion of the session, registered attendees will receive an email with a web address to register for their AIA certificate. Please email education@practicegreenhealth.org with you request for CEUs. If you are an AIA member please include your membership number. Note: Access to Practice Greenhealth webinars is a fee-based service, and is one of many member benefits.  You can learn more about the fees and benefits of membership by going to our website, and you can join on-line as well. See http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/community/membership/ Access to a single webinar is also available for $150 or by purchasing an annual subscription for $795.  See http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/tools/webinars/ Topic Why do green health care design and construction projects seek philanthropic and government funding? Is outside funding necessary to construct a green hospital? What kinds of strategies are most likely to be funded? How should a project approach an incentive program differently from a local or national foundation?  How is health care different from other sectors in the kind of awards it receives and the level of funding? These are just a few of the questions that will be answered during this evaluation of the health care sector’s success in taking advantage of grant and incentive opportunities specific to green building projects. Learning Objectives The integrated design process leads to a high performance building that maximizes the efficiency of a facility’s building systems and reduces operating costs. Green buildings do not have to cost more than non-green buildings. ... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:04:28 +0100 646379 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/10/practice-greenhealth-design-construction-series-grant-and-incentive-opportunities-for-green-building-in-health-care/ Friday, September 12, 2008 http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/tools/webinars/calendar/details/401 1:00 eastern, 12:00 central, 11:00 mountain and 10:00 pacific and will last for 90 minutes. Earn 0.5 AIA CEU:  Attendees of this ninety minute webcast can earn 0.5 CEU from the American Institute of Architects.  Upon the completion of the session, registered attendees will receive an email with a web address to register for their AIA certificate. Please email education@practicegreenhealth.org with you request for CEUs. If you are an AIA member please include your membership number. Note: Access to Practice Greenhealth webinars is a fee-based service, and is one of many member benefits.  You can learn more about the fees and benefits of membership by going to our website, and you can join on-line as well. See http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/community/membership/ Access to a single webinar is also available for $150 or by purchasing an annual subscription for $795.  See http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/tools/webinars/ Topic Why do green health care design and construction projects seek philanthropic and government funding? Is outside funding necessary to construct a green hospital? What kinds of strategies are most likely to be funded? How should a project approach an incentive program differently from a local or national foundation?  How is health care different from other sectors in the kind of awards it receives and the level of funding? These are just a few of the questions that will be answered during this evaluation of the health care sector’s success in taking advantage of grant and incentive opportunities specific to green building projects. Learning Objectives The integrated design process leads to a high performance building that maximizes the efficiency of a facility’s building systems and reduces operating costs. Green buildings do not have to cost more than non-green buildings. ... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:04:28 +0100 646378 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/mleggott/loomware/~3/389152923/epresence-open.html I love it when someone makes great open source software and knows how to make it work for you. The ePresence TV system is a great example of that. I used the system when at the University of Winnipeg 4 or 5 years ago and had the pleasure of seeing how the system has evolved this week at UPEI. We wanted to be able to record lectures, stream them live and make them available via an archive. Not necessarily a huge issue these days, but to do it right takes time and a lot of work before and after. I called the ePresence people (based at the KMDI at the University of Toronto) on Thursday, we received the ePresence capture hardware unit the next day, plugged it in and performed a test in the lab, set it up in the lecture hall Monday and recorded the live lecture Tuesday. Not a hitch (except for a mic hum, now fixed and some funny slide titles, now being fixed) and it allowed us to take an overflow crowd of 70 and set them up in another lecture hall so they could watch it on the big screen. 20 minutes after the 1-hour lecture the presentation (video, audio and synced powerpoint slides) was available on the archive site, which is for now a server at U of Toronto (at the reasonable rate of $75/month). Not a hitch. How often does that happen with any software system? Kudos to the talented crew at ePresence: if you have a need for a shrink-wrapped webcasting system go direct to ePresence and support this great open source project. The latest version of the software (which is also available as an OS download) provides advanced features such as remote scheduling and recording, seamless integration with Moodle. Take a look at the opening Global Issues 151 session by President Wade MacLauchlan and see how it looks. (Source: LoomWare) Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 647095 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Rich-media-Webcasting-50647.aspx Momindum launches K-base 2.0 (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Collaboration) Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100 647493 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LaBrujulaVerde/~3/387660190/ Antes que nada, agradecer a Guillermo la oportunidad de publicar en este lugar, que leo y forma parte de lo que intento transmitir día a día en internet. Y ahora, ya…mi primera colaboración en La Brújula Verde: Que los blogs están aumentando (sin prisa pero sin pausa…) el nivel cultural, la motivación para aprender, la inteligencia colectiva de quienes los leen o escriben es algo de lo que no me cabe la menor duda. De que a la mayoría de los que pasamos horas en la red no nos hacen falta demasiados refuerzos, demasiados premios, demasiado reconocimiento, para seguir aprendiendo, tampoco. Lo demuestra una nueva forma de formación a distancia, de elearning sin precedentes: Los MOOCS o Massive Open Online Courses (cursos masivos abiertos online). En inglés durante esta primera etapa y con algunos precedentes menos concurridos, el Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course-curso sobre conectivismo y conocimiento colectivo de George Siemens y Stephen Downes (autores relevantes en el ámbito del elearning2.0 o las nuevas formas de aprender facilitadas por la red) que empezaba ayer mismo, cuenta con unas 1300 personas inscritas (CCK08) Veremos cómo avanza pero de momento, como participante puedo dejaros algunas de sus características, esas que estoy segura de que serán parte de iniciativas futuras en el ámbito hispano: -Puede ser organizado por cualquier experto y creo que, casi, en cualquier materia. Sus limitaciones son las mismas que las de cualquier curso de formación exclusiva online. En el caso del ejemplo que os presento, se trata de profesores Universitarios, quedando abierta la posibilidad de obtener un título oficial de la Universidad de Manitoba previo pago y posteriores controles. Aún así, la importancia del “título” es secundaria, por no decir insexistente. -Puede participar cualquier persona que muestre interés en el tema. ... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:33:09 +0100 646156 http://lrc.pjc.edu/blog/2008/09/large-hadron-collider-goes-online.html The Large Hadron Collider Goes Online TomorrowCERN will be providing a live webcast of the Large Hadron Collider's "First Beam" maiden voyage on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The first injection of the beam into the machine will be between 9:00 and 10:00 a. m. (Between 2:00 and 3:00 AM CST).See a video about the LHC. If all this sounds like too much maybe the LHC rap will help. (Source: Pensacola Junior College Library Blog) Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 646704 http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=1160 When I was ten my local public library held a drawing contest, judged by David Macaulay. My mom was a big fan, and she had shown me Underground and I was deeply inspired. Long story short, I won, my prize an autographed copy of Pyramid. I don't think I can overestimate the impact this sort of external validation had on my artistic self-esteem, and from then on I started thinking of myself as an artist, and never really stopped. I continued to be a big Macaulay fan, and Gene and I were lucky enough to visit his show when we were in Washington, D.C. for ALA a couple of years ago. I was blown away by how much work he puts into his art, and how successful he is at conveying complex ideas simply . This is by way of letting you know how happy I am that this week's sponsor is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publisher of his new book The Way We Work. David Macaulay will be hosting a live webcast on the morning of October 7th to talk about his new book, and you're all invited. I'll definitely be there, so register today! Posted by Bill on 9/8/2008 1:27:00 PM (Source: Unshelved) Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:09:01 +0100 645575 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Blogadillo/~3/386904190/ Join the Department of Health and Human Services for the online launch of the “Ask Medicare” Initiative for caregivers, partners and media.  The live webcast launch is Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 12pm to 1pm Eastern Time.  To learn more and to register for the webcast, visit http://www.hostingimagesemail.com/hhs/september2008/index.htm (Source: Network News) Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:14:28 +0100 646311 http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2008/09/upcoming-educat.html The Canadian Education Institute regularly holds a number of fabulous online events with library world speakers on many different topics.  You can view their schedule of upcoming events online including online courses, Tech Tuesday webcasts, audio conferences, and workshops.  There is a cost for most events.  Below are the upcoming Tech Tuesday webcasts (note that I have one coming up in December).  Technology Tuesday Series September 23, 2008 - Cool Tools for Library Webmasters - Darlene Fichter and Frank Cervone October 7, 2008 - Fast and Easy Site Tune-ups - Jeff Wisniewski October 21, 2008 - The Secret to User-Centered Web Sites: Cheap, Easy & Effective Usability Techniques - Erica Reynolds November 18, 2008 - Designing the Digital Experience - David King December 2, 2008 - Web 2.0 for Smaller, Underfunded Libraries - Sarah Houghton-Jan January 13, 2009 - Ten Trends & Technologies for 2009 - Michael Stephens (Source: LibrarianInBlack) Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:44:50 +0100 645851 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Library_roles_in_disaster_or_everyday_service Speaking of disaster planning, I look forward to the upcoming MLA Webcast, Survival Tips and Stories: Expanding the Library's Services in Times of Di (Source: pligg - all) Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:00:24 +0100 644896 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/384627891/ Check out the fall lineup of online courses and Tech Tuesday webinars for the Education Institute: Online Courses: September 15 - October 9, 2008 - Time Management for Library Staff - Cheryl Stenstrom November 3 - 28, 2008 - Say It Right: Speaking Confidently and Effectively - Cheryl Stenstrom Technology Tuesday Series: September 23, 2008 - Cool Tools for Library Webmasters - Darlene Fichter and Frank Cervone October 7, 2008 - Fast and Easy Site Tune-ups - Jeff Wisniewski October 21, 2008 - The Secret to User-Centered Web Sites: Cheap, Easy & Effective Usability Techniques - Erica Reynolds November 18, 2008 - Designing the Digital Experience - David King December 2, 2008 - Web 2.0 for Smaller, Underfunded Libraries - Sarah Houghton-Jan 2009 January 13, 2009 - Ten Trends & Technologies for 2009 - Michael Stephens Share: (Source: David Lee King) Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:32:34 +0100 644756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/384389815/ Brenda Hough asked me to come up with some presentation tips for online and “normal” presentations… and I decided to post them! So… When I’m planning out a presentation, here’s what I generally do: Use a mind mapping program to outline the presentation. I use MindJet’s MindManager Pro, but any will do. I like the more “visual” way mind maps work - I can randomly come up with ideas around a topic, then easily arrange those ideas into points and sections as needed. Turn the mind map into slides. Most of what I have on the mind map ends up being dumped into the presenter notes of Keynote. Customize the slides. I’ll find a slide template I like, then hack away at it - usually, the default bullet points/text/ sizes/etc don’t match what’s in my head, so I pretty much make each slide from scratch, moving text around, adding images, etc until I like what I see. Make sure I have strong intros, transitions, and an ending. By this point, the topic is stuck in my head, so I don’t rehearse much at all. Usually the night before my presentation, I’ll run through it once - and customize if I need to (ie., “dang! It’s WAY TOO LONG - I’d better cut stuff”). Other tips: For any presentation: Don’t read your outline - your audience can do that! Instead, talk around the outline tell stories to make a point use graphics that enhance that story or point if you can, use the presenter notes part of Powerpoint or Keynote. This helps you still “feel” like you’re reading from a script (if you need the safety net or have specific points to remember), while at the same time not having that “I’m reading my outline to you” sound. ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:13:52 +0100 644758 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4555 Wednesday, September 3, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Main Conference Room, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138RSVP Required (msimun@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 PM ET on 9/3. Lunch will be servedread more (Source: Berkman Blog) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0100 643594 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2008/09/osiakwanzuckerman Tuesday, September 2, 12:30PM Berkman Conference Room, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MARSVP Required (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 PM ET on 9/2.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:02:14 +0100 643041 http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2008/09/being-wired-or.html I recently published a lengthy article in the UK open access journal Ariadne entitled "Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload."  Enjoy!  The journal also has an excellent article promoting the option of allowing employees to telecommute (e.g. "work from home" for those unfamiliar with the term).  Studies show that employees actually are more productive per hour and put in more hours when they work from home.  I can attest to that - telecommuting has always worked out well for me and I find it to be a mainstay in what makes me able to do my job well. By the by, I'm starting to schedule presentations across the country about coping with information overload.  Let me know if you're interested.  I'm happy to hold webcasts too - as that is often easier for all involved. (Source: LibrarianInBlack) Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:55:25 +0100 643493 http://marlenescorner.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/08/28/le-marche-du-mardi-n-18i.html SCIENCE 2.0 - L'équipe du Journal of number theory, édité par Elsevier, propose à ses auteurs de faire le résumé de leurs articles sous la forme d'une vidéo ; c'est, selon le directeur de la revue, une façon plus vivante de contextualiser les résultats de la recherche. Peu d'auteurs ont pour l'instant choisi cette option, mais les vidéos ont été vues entre 250 et 1300 fois en 3 mois, ce qui est plutôt encourageant. - Une équipe de scientifiques de l'Université de Nottingham a imaginé une version vidéo de la table périodique des éléments : derrière chaque symbole chimique, une explication en images ou une démo des réactions possibles (voir celle sur le phosphore par exemple, ou celle sur le sodium). Les vidéos sont aussi disponibles sur le Channel YouTube. Très pédagogique, le site a enregistré plus d'1,8 millions de consultations depuis son lancement. - Moins drôle mais aussi intéressant, Physclips, de l'Université de South Wales en Australie, explique différentes notions de mécanique, d'électricité et de magnétisme, en images et animations flash. Le tout sous licence Creative Commons, démos et animations pouvant être téléchargées par les enseignants souhaitant les réutiliser. AO & OA - Archiver oui mais quoi ? La version de l'auteur ou celle (mise en page) de l'éditeur ? Contre toute attente, un certain nombre d'éditeurs (69 sur la 414 répertoriés) autorisent l'auto-archivage de la version éditeur (généralement au format pdf), nous apprend Sherpa, qui a tout de suite ajouté l'info sur Romeo. - A noter dans les agendas, le 14/10/2008 sera le premier Open Access Day : conférences et autres manifestations auront lieu sur les campus américains (principalement) et en ligne (vidéos de promotion de l'OA, webcasts des conférences). L'événement est co-organisé par SPARC, PLoS et Students for FreeCulture. ... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:25:00 +0100 643141 http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/09/state_of_the_po.html For something that didn't exist just a few years ago it's amazing how many of these are downloaded. I know the podcasts, webcasts and iTunes of the SirsiDynix Institute are getting fair play. Podcast Downloading 2008 "As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later. This most recent percentage is up from 12% of internet users who reported downloading podcasts in our August 2006 survey and 7% in our February-April 2006 survey. Still, podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few internet users download podcasts on a typical day." View PDF of Report (5 pages) Stephen (Source: Stephen) Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 642706 http://www.lisnews.org/tips_worried_librarian_relative_gustav_0 As seen in the past, hurricanes are big news. We worry about loved ones and the electronic communications bring us ever closer. As noted in the response to Hurricane Katrina, communications were a major issue. Rumors easily spread out of the Superdome and due to those massive communications nets those rumors whipped up pretty drastic hysteria. What can a librarian do in this? The first thing to do is to be patient. While librarianship is sometimes considered a helping profession it must be remembered that a drive on our parts to help must be tempered with caution. The time to start thinking about donations of physical goods is best after landfall rather than before. The best thing that can be donated before landfall is money because that is far more fungible than a roll of toilet paper might be in terms of procuring goods. Money allows for those directly impacted to make decisions about how to respond rather than such being made in a disconnected place. The after-action reports from Katrina showed that while folks outside the impacted area might have been well-meaning sometimes the bulk donation of some types of physical goods was not quite effective. Communications will be presumably impacted by this event. LISTen will not be reporting on Gustav. Rather than get details second-hand from LISTen a pointer is given below instead to an experimental podcast from the National Hurricane Center that may be issued as often as hourly. In this case it is best to get it directly rather than filtered. Care must be taken to ensure that telephone communications are not disrupted by attempting to contact loved ones that might still be in the projected impact area. If you receive a message that circuits are busy, it is best to wait as it may be a while before congestion clears. Many emergency response plans prioritize telephone traffic to support emergency response traffic first so continually trying might only cause you grief rather than relief. ... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:53:40 +0100 643238 http://lisnews.org/tips_worried_librarian_relative_gustav_0 As seen in the past, hurricanes are big news. We worry about loved ones and the electronic communications bring us ever closer. As noted in the response to Hurricane Katrina, communications were a major issue. Rumors easily spread out of the Superdome and due to those massive communications nets those rumors whipped up pretty drastic hysteria. What can a librarian do in this? The first thing to do is to be patient. While librarianship is sometimes considered a helping profession it must be remembered that a drive on our parts to help must be tempered with caution. The time to start thinking about donations of physical goods is best after landfall rather than before. The best thing that can be donated before landfall is money because that is far more fungible than a roll of toilet paper might be in terms of procuring goods. Money allows for those directly impacted to make decisions about how to respond rather than such being made in a disconnected place. The after-action reports from Katrina showed that while folks outside the impacted area might have been well-meaning sometimes the bulk donation of some types of physical goods was not quite effective. Communications will be presumably impacted by this event. LISTen will not be reporting on Gustav. Rather than get details second-hand from LISTen a pointer is given below instead to an experimental podcast from the National Hurricane Center that may be issued as often as hourly. In this case it is best to get it directly rather than filtered. Care must be taken to ensure that telephone communications are not disrupted by attempting to contact loved ones that might still be in the projected impact area. If you receive a message that circuits are busy, it is best to wait as it may be a while before congestion clears. Many emergency response plans prioritize telephone traffic to support emergency response traffic first so continually trying might only cause you grief rather than relief. ... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:53:40 +0100 642454 http://lisnews.org/tips_worried_librarian_relative_gustav As seen in the past, hurricanes are big news. We worry about loved ones and the electronic communications bring us ever closer. As noted in the response to Hurricane Katrina, communications were a major issue. Rumors easily spread out of the Superdome and due to those massive communications nets those rumors whipped up pretty drastic hysteria. What can a librarian do in this? The first thing to do is to be patient. While librarianship is sometimes considered a helping profession it must be remembered that a drive on our parts to help must be tempered with caution. The time to start thinking about donations of physical goods is best after landfall rather than before. The best thing that can be donated before landfall is money because that is far more fungible than a roll of toilet paper might be in terms of procuring goods. Money allows for those directly impacted to make decisions about how to respond rather than such being made in a disconnected place. The after-action reports from Katrina showed that while folks outside the impacted area might have been well-meaning sometimes the bulk donation of some types of physical goods was not quite effective. Communications will be presumably impacted by this event. LISTen will not be reporting on Gustav. Rather than get details second-hand from LISTen a pointer is given below instead to an experimental podcast from the National Hurricane Center that may be issued as often as hourly. In this case it is best to get it directly rather than filtered. Care must be taken to ensure that telephone communications are not disrupted by attempting to contact loved ones that might still be in the projected impact area. If you receive a message that circuits are busy, it is best to wait as it may be a while before congestion clears. Many emergency response plans prioritize telephone traffic to support emergency response traffic first so continually trying might only cause you grief rather than relief. ... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:53:40 +0100 642453 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/08/31/live-media-coverage-from-new-orleans-area/ + WWL Radio (Windows Media Player) + WWLTV + WDSU TV + WGNO TV + WVUE TV (FOX + NOLA 38 (CW) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:28:18 +0100 642412 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/08/31/podcast-downloading-2008/ Podcast Downloading 2008 As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later. This most recent percentage is up from 12% of internet users who reported downloading podcasts in our August 2006 survey and 7% in our February-April 2006 survey. Still, podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few internet users download podcasts on a typical day. + Full Report (PDF; 79 KB) Source: Pew Internet & American Library Project (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:26:43 +0100 642399 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/378124912/toward-database-of-open-projects.html Jonathan Gray, A Map of Openness? Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog, August 28, 2008.  Excerpt: We’ve recently been in conversation with various individuals about starting a project to map open projects and groups.... We’ve put a few notes about the project on the OKF [Open Knowledge Foundation] wiki [here]. A tentative description of the projects reads: A versioned database of open projects, open initiatives and the organisations and individuals behind them. A publicly editable directory and knowledge base of information about these projects and groups. A visual interface to explore and analyse the material. Related developments include: Michel [Bauwens] has blogged a bit about the initiative here, and has made an ‘Open’ category on the P2P Foundation wiki - including “descriptions of nearly 400 open concepts and initiatives, a list of open definitions, a directory of podcasts on the topics to learn more (and soon: a directory of video webcasts)”. Heather [Ford] has put a diagram - which she used in her iSummit ‘08 keynote speech - on her blog. Mark [Surman] started a page on the Open Everything wiki for starting to gather examples of different kinds of open projects. We’d love to have a wiki-like registry (like CKAN) with a visual interface for exploring the material - perhaps using something like Prefuse or Processing. If you have any thoughts - or you’d like to get involved - please get in touch on our discuss list or at info at the OKF domain name! Comment.  This is a great idea.  If I can speak for the Open Access Directory, we've been considering something similar (and narrower):  at least a list of university-based initiatives and at least those initiatives focused on OA to research literature and data. ... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 641929 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/377110876/een-masterclass-omgaan-met-weerstand.html Het is een mooi th