A sexy future for librarians?
A blog post with the words sexy and librarians in its title has great potential to offend at least someone, but I'm going to try my hardest not to. I'm pulling the term sexy from someone else and they are using it in the 'excitingly appealing' context, so that should be OK then. The someone else is Marshall Kirkpatrick writing on Read Write Web. Like all good posts it draws on a couple of themes to make a point. The first theme is about the findability of user generated content on sites like YouTube. If the contributors of content could be helped with its description to make it more findable, those who are exci...
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panlibus - December 20, 2007 Tags: Librarian Findability Future Talis Jon Udell Talking with Talis podcast
Library Wins Contest!
Lansing Public Library won first place in the Lansing Chamber of Commerce Christmas decorating contest! Click here for the article in the Times, listing other winners.
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Lansing Library Adult Dept. podcast - December 20, 2007 Author: webmaster at lansing.lib.il.us (Lansing Public Library) Tags: In The News Contests / Raffles Announcements
The YALSA Update: A Holiday Smorgasbord
Teen Tech Week Updates
Stephanie gave details about the Promotional Song contest earlier this week, but did you know there's still time to win a Teen Tech Week Mini Grant for your library? Applications for the $450 mini grants (plus $50 in Teen Tech Week products) will be accepted at yalsa@ala.org until January 7—visit the Teen Tech Week contests page to download the guidelines and your application form. (And, of course, don't forget to register while you're there!)
We've also launched two new Tech Guides: one on using online surveys and another on teens and virtual worlds. Download all three tech guides today!
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YALSA - December 20, 2007 Tags: News Professional Development Technology Awards Conference YALSA Info.
Dow Jones Webinar: Folksonomies & Taxonomies in the Enterprise
Webinar: Folksonomies & Taxonomies in the Enterprise
(Free; link takes you to registration form.)
From e-mail:
Enterprises today face a critical challenge: How to manage an abundance of increasingly complex and disparate information assets in an environment of constant change and technological complexity. How do you provide tools that your users are used to using in the commercial world in order for them to stay competitive and enable collaboration?
Results from a recent roundtable event on Folksonomies & Taxonomies that discussed these challenges will be shared as well other research work that has been focuse...
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ResourceShelf - December 20, 2007 Author: ResourceShelf Tags: Source File Online Education Cataloging and Metadata Webcasts and podcasts Info Management and Retrieval
More Questions to Ask
In our last night of LIS768: Library 2.0 and Social Networking Technologies, we used this post as a way to talk about the future:
http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2007/09/questions-for-t.html
I posted about it here back in September:
David Armano ponders digital immigrants and digital natives. He offers up a list of questions for ad/PR agency executives, pondering what kind of answers he might get. I think these might figure well into an interview for that emerging technology librarian job -- or, really, for any librarian job these days...
1. Do you read blogs. Which ones?
2. Do you have a personal blog? What'...
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Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology - December 20, 2007 Tags: Library 2.0/Web 2.0
Library Funding
In the latest Thinking Out Loud with George and Joan George Needham revealed a startling finding from the next OCLC report. That library use does not correlate with library support. We can't assume that our members will support us in a bond issue. Nor can we assume those not using the library won't support funding. Rallying our members for a tax increase or bond issue is not the best way to get funding. We have to mobilize our supporters, whether members or not. The full report is due in the first part of 2008.For the use of members instead of patrons, users, etc. listen to the podcast.
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Catalogablog - December 20, 2007 Tags: Funding
Thinking Aloud - a-learning ;-)
A quick count of devices in our family that are: a) portable, and b) capable of playing audio files suddenly brought home to me just how accessible recorded audio is becoming from a technology point of view
I've thought for some time that audio could see a resurgence, and I'd be keen to know whether there are any OU course teams who are looking to use audio in a significant way in any new courses (in the past, many OU courses used to go out with audio or video content, as well as text-based print content).
As well as 'official' radio programmes being made available for download, the open courseware movement is turning up...
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OUseful Info - December 20, 2007 Author: ajh59 Tags: TAL audio informal education current awareness
Thinking Aloud - a-learning ;-)
A quick count of devices in our family that are: a) portable, and b) capable of playing audio files suddenly brought home to me just how accessible recorded audio is becoming from a technology point of view
I've thought for some time that audio could see a resurgence, and I'd be keen to know whether there are any OU course teams who are looking to use audio in a significant way in any new courses (in the past, many OU courses used to go out with audio or video content, as well as text-based print content).
As well as 'official' radio programmes being made available for download, the open courseware movement is turning up...
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OUseful Info - December 20, 2007 Author: ajh59 Tags: TAL audio informal education current awareness
Dowling Library Omnibus #39
Omnibus #39: Suffolk County Historical Society. Wally Broege, longtime director of SCHS, describes collecting, preserving and interpreting over 300 years of Long Island history. The Society's collections cover everything from Indian artifacts to genealogical resources to the photographs of Hal B. Fullerton.
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Dowling College Library podcasts - December 19, 2007 Author: Dowling College Library
Librivox: audiolibros gratuitos
LibriVox es una esperanza, un experimento y una pregunta: ¿puede el internet capacitar a un grupo de voluntarios con fines de transformar los libros de dominio público en forma de podcast? (more…)
Compártelo!
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En Marcha con las TIC - December 19, 2007 Author: administrador Tags: audio audiobooks
LibVibe - 20 December 2007
Click on the link above to listen to the seven-minute newscast, anytime.Season's Greetings and Happy New Year!Stories reported:Gates Foundation awards ALA $950,000 to improve access to Internet resources in public libraries (interview, release); Ex-librarian leaves $300,000 for library; Verizon, Maier giving $500,000 each to library; Library cuts book budget by $200K; Two million people, only two libraries; Student finds surprise in library book; Columbia joins Google Book project; Library branch will move to former Barnes & Noble.--------------------------------------------CSA Illustrata from ProQuest-----------------...
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LibVibe: the library news podcast - December 19, 2007 Author: LibVibe at gmail.com (LibVibe)LibVibe
Wombat Divine
Wombat Divine by Mem Fox is one of my favorite Christmas books. I love the story, and the pictures are so sweet that it's a pure pleasure to read this book out loud to little kids. This story is about a little wombat who wants to be in the Christmas play. He goes to the try- outs with hope in his heart. Too soon he finds out that he is too big, too small, too heavy, not quite right, and so on. But he is ever hopeful that there will be a part in this play for him; and there is! I think that's what Christmas is like too. We want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, we want to find our part to play. If we're...
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Lansing Library Youth Dept. podcast - December 19, 2007 Author: webmaster at lansing.lib.il.us (Lansing Public Library) Tags: picture book books authors
The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures Podcasts
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has made available audio recordings of recent
non-technical talks by noted astronomers.Founded in 1999, the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are presented on six Wednesday evenings during
each school year at Foothill College, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Speakers over the years have included Nobel-prize winners, members of the National
Academy of Sciences, the first woman in history to discover a planet, an astrophysicist who is an award-winning science fiction writer, and many other well-known
scientists explaining astronomical developments in everyd...
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New - December 19, 2007
Digital Television
Confused about the switch to DTV?Visit the DTV Answers website for answers!
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Lansing Library Internet and Technology podcast - December 19, 2007 Author: webmaster at lansing.lib.il.us (Lansing Public Library) Tags: Websites In The News
Library of the Marine Corps: Marine 2.0
"Blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and podcasts are examples of the new social software technologies that comprise Web 2.0. Marine 2.0 will teach you how to use this social software through weekly interac...
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Info To Go: Navigating the Internet - December 19, 2007
Programa de l’EbreBloc 2008
Ja s’ha fet públic el programa preliminar de l’EbreBloc 2008, que tindrà lloc els propers 1 i 2 de febrer a les biblioteques de Tortosa i Roquetes respectivament. Esperem que el programa us resulti interessant i atractiu; i que us reserveu a les vostres agendes aquest dos dies per venir a l’Ebre. Penso que hem fet un programa prou atractiu, amb blocaires de refència a nivell de Catalunya i amb noms molt importants en l’àmbit de l’educació i la política a les Terres de l’Ebre, i que mantenen uns blogs molt actius.
1 de febrer (Biblioteca Marcel·lí Domingo, Tortosa)
17:45 – 18:...
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[ bauen_Blog ] - December 19, 2007 Author: Daniel Gil Tags: EbreBloc 2008 Blogs
Digital Economy Fact Book 2007
The Ninth Edition of The Progress & Freedom Foundation’s “Digital Economy Fact Book” was released Dec. 18th and is available on the PFF site here. This reference book, authored by Stephen McGonegal and Daniel B. Britton. is praised by ResourceShelf as a "vital source for objective statistics and information on the digital economy. "
Just to give you an idea of the stuff packed into this free 188 page PDF, Here's the table of contents:
Table of Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: The Growth of the Internet
Host Computers and Domains
The U.S. Online Population
The Worldwide Online Population
Websites on the Internet
Inte...
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Stephen's Lighthouse - December 18, 2007
100 Days at the MLA – Roy Clare talks with Talis
Departmental right-sizing, transferring functions out of London to Birmingham, placing programs on hold, and even an appearance at a Talis Conference have all been part of Roy Clare’s first 100 days. The MLA’s enthusiastic new Chief Executive talks with Richard Wallis about the place and purpose of the organization, it’s challenges, and the opportunities for England’s Museums Archives and Libraries. Coming from several years working with biodegrading monuments at the National Maritime Museum, Roy is obviously up for the challenge. Listen Now Download MP3 [38 mins, 35Mb] This conversation was conducted...
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panlibus - December 18, 2007 Tags: podcast MLA Roy Clare Libraries Talis podcasts Taliking with Talis
100 Days at the MLA – Roy Clare talks with Talis
Departmental right-sizing, transferring functions out of London to Birmingham, placing programs on hold, and even an appearance at a Talis Conference have all been part of Roy Clare’s first 100 days. The MLA’s enthusiastic new Chief Executive talks with Richard Wallis about the place and purpose of the organization, it’s challenges, and the opportunities for England’s Museums Archives and Libraries. Coming from several years working with biodegrading monuments at the National Maritime Museum, Roy is obviously up for the challenge. Listen Now Download MP3 [38 mins, 35Mb] This conversation was conducted...
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Talking with Talis - December 18, 2007 Tags: MLA Roy Clare Libraries Talis podcasts Taliking with Talis
Christmas Gift Bringers
Do You Believe in Santa? Is There a Santa Claus? Don't forget to visit us for some classic stories that answer these questions and more. One of my all time favorite books on Santa Claus is a wonderful book called Christmas Gift-Bringers! Santa, Santa, Santa, Phooey declares big brother Sidney! With that, Father opens the book and begins the story of the Christmas Gift-Bringers; a history of Santa Claus begins. We have many Christmas books of Christmas customs celebrated around the world. They are on display and waiting to be checked out for this most wonderful time of the year! So come in and check out Santa Claus.
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Lansing Library Youth Dept. podcast - December 18, 2007 Author: webmaster at lansing.lib.il.us (Lansing Public Library)
Podcast: Why is Google showing us the way forward in digitisation? asks senior UK librarian
This 12 min. podcast is about change, potential and the user...and is not purely about digitization. Worth listening to.Abstract: A recent European digitisation conference explored some important challenges facing national and university libraries across the continent as they attempt to join together to deliver a 'European Digital Library'. In this podcast interview Paul Ayris, librarian at University College London and a senior figure in these European developments, asks a number of challenging questions of the library community.Technorati tag: Digitization
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Digitization 101 - December 18, 2007 Tags: Digitization
Virtual Midwinter
In my early years as a librarian I didn't have the chance to attend ALA's Midwinter Meeting or Annual Conference. During those years I wished that there was a way that I could attend without actually going to the city where the event took place. In those days that wasn't possible. But now there are opportunities to participate in ALA meetings without leaving your house or office. Some of the ways you can participate this year, even if you can't travel to Philadelphia for the Midwinter Meeting, include:
The YALSA blog - YALSA bloggers will post regularly during the meeting in Philadelphia. Check the blog out to learn w...
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ALA Weblog Service - December 18, 2007 Tags: Conference
New at CARL - In the ruins of empire
In the ruins of empire : the Japanese surrender and the battle for postwar Asia by Ronald Spector
Spector follows up on Eagle Against the Sun, his account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, with a chronicle of the aftermath of this crucial conflict. He tells the fascinating story of the deadly confrontations that broke out--or merely continued--in Asia after peace was proclaimed. Under occupation by the victorious Allies, this part of the world was plunged into new power struggles, or back into old feuds, that in some ways were worse than the war itself. International suspicions were still ...
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CARL Book Beacon - December 18, 2007 Tags: history author podcast military affairs
E-Gov Site Review: Maryland.gov
http://www.maryland.gov/
RSS feeds: No;
podcasts: No;
Multimedia: No;
Blogs: No;
Online user services: Yes;
Interactive user services: No;
Mobile services: No.
Here we are. My home state, the Free State, the Old Line State. (”Do you come here often?”) Mighty Maryland, home of the life sciences, the Terps, blue crabs, a sweet state flag, Mencken, Dos Passos, and the grave of F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is walking distance from my house, actually. If you’re ever in town, let me know and I’ll take you by. We also have professional sports teams that are good every few decades. (How do you...
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Libraryola - December 18, 2007 Author: Chris Zammarelli Tags: E-Gov Site Review
Novo número do Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services
O Libri - International Journal of Libraries and Information Services, acaba de divulgar o seu número de dezembro de 2007 [v. 57, n. 4, December 2007]. O conteúdo desse número pode ser visto abaixo ou via URL: http://www.librijournal.org/2007-4toc.htmlSumário:JOY L. AUSTRIA. Developing Evaluation Criteria for podcasts.SIMON HAIKOLA and SARA JONSSON. State Surveillance on the Internet - The Swedish Debate and the Future Role of Libraries and LIS.DAVID EDGAR JONES. The University and the Library Collection: Errors of Inclusion and Exclusion.TI YU. Issues on Cataloguing Operations of Technological University and College L...
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A "INFORMAÇÃO" - December 18, 2007 Tags: International Journal of Libraries and Informations Services Libri
E-Gov Site Review: Maine.gov
http://www.maine.gov/
RSS feeds: Yes;
podcasts: Yes, there is a link to the governor’s radio addresses;
Multimedia: Yes, live videos from both legislative chambers, plus traffic cams;
Blogs: No;
Online user services: Yes;
Interactive user services: Yes, the site can be customized. Bookmarking and email alerts are some of the available features. There is also a paid subscription service for bill payments, and pictures in the photo gallery (which was down when I visited) can be sent as e-cards;
Mobile services: Yes.
I feel like I’m cheating by including the one podcast in both the state and governor revie...
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Libraryola - December 18, 2007 Author: Chris Zammarelli Tags: E-Gov Site Review
Podcasts: One Planet from BBC World Service
"One Planet covers environmental, development and agriculture stories, dealing with the impact of humankind on the natural world."
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Info To Go: Navigating the Internet - December 18, 2007
Podcasts: Material World from BBC Radio 4
"Weekly science conversation, on everything from archaeology to zoology, from abacus to the antipodean rodent zyzomys, by way of meteorites."
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Info To Go: Navigating the Internet - December 18, 2007
netbib - Kategorien
Ich weiss zwar nicht recht, ob es so richtig sinnvoll ist, aber wer möchte, kann auf dieser Pageflakes-Seite netbib, nach Kategorien geordnet, lesen bzw. weiterverwenden. Also die Seite in den eigenen Pageflakes-Account kopieren und entsprechend den Bedürfnissen weiterbearbeiten. Etwas versteckt ist bei Pageflakes die Option “Take Flake”: Wenn man auf den Briefumschlag in der Titelzeile des jeweiligen Flakes klickt, bekommt man die Möglichkeit den HTML-Code zum Einbetten des Flakes zu kopieren und auf (fast) jeder beliebigen Webseite einzubinden. Exemplarisch hier mal die netbib Kategorie podcast, die mit ei...
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netbib weblog - December 18, 2007 Author: ES Tags: Bibliothek20
netbib - Kategorien
Ich weiss zwar nicht recht, ob es so richtig sinnvoll ist, aber wer möchte, kann auf dieser Pageflakes-Seite netbib, nach Kategorien geordnet, lesen bzw. weiterverwenden. Also die Seite in den eigenen Pageflakes-Account kopieren und entsprechend den Bedürfnissen weiterbearbeiten. Etwas versteckt ist bei Pageflakes die Option “Take Flake”: Wenn man auf den Briefumschlag in der Titelzeile des jeweiligen Flakes klickt, bekommt man die Möglichkeit den HTML-Code zum Einbetten des Flakes zu kopieren und auf (fast) jeder beliebigen Webseite einzubinden. Exemplarisch hier mal die netbib Kategorie podcast, die mit ei...
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netbib weblog - December 18, 2007 Author: ES Tags: Bibliothek20
