Students! Parents! Teachers!
Share the experience of reading 30 minutes a day for 30 days, and you could be chosen to win one of two top prizes: a starring role in a Maryland reading video or an Amazon Kindle.For more information, click here or stop by the HHS Library Media Center to pick up your reading calendar today.
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Huntingtown High School Library Media Center - February 26, 2011 Author: Mrs. Younkers
Celebrate Black History Month
February is Black History Month. Test your knowledge of Civil Rights heroes by taking this interactive quiz.To learn more about the contributions of African Americans in history, try these great websites:African VoicesThis Smithsonian online exhibit celebrates Africa's diversity and long history.African American WorldSponsored by PBS, this website features a large collection of classroom resources for teachers and students.Black HistoryHere you can find an interactive timeline, biographies, and a collection of video clips.
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Huntingtown High School Library Media Center - February 14, 2011 Author: Mrs. Younkers
Celebrate Black History Month!
February is Black History Month. Test your knowledge of Civil Rights heroes by taking this interactive quiz.To learn more about the contributions of African Americans in history, try these great websites:African VoicesThis Smithsonian online exhibit celebrates Africa's diversity and long history.African American WorldSponsored by PBS, this website features a large collection of classroom resources for teachers and students.Black HistoryHere you can find an interactive timeline, biographies, and a collection of video clips.
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Huntingtown High School Library Media Center - February 2, 2011 Author: Mrs. Younkers
E-Book Roundup: News from Baidu; Kobo; Amazon/Kindle; Sony; Borders; and Several Others
+ Baidu, Most Used Site in China Begins Selling e-Books (via Bloomberg News)
Baidu also provides a popular search engine. Baidu info page in English.
+ China: The E-Reader Boom (by Yu Shujyun, Beijing Review)
+ OPDS [Open Publishing Distribution System Catalog] Primer on Feedbooks (by Paul Biba, TeleRead)
+ video Notre Dame ereader study (by Paul Biba, [...]
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ResourceShelf - September 2, 2010
Using Technology in Library Training
Here’s a class that looks interesting: “Using Technology in Library Training” taught by Paul Signorelli and offered through the American Library Association. It’s online, hands-on and will help you incorporate youtube, GoogleDocs, LinkedIn and other tools in your instructional design. The class is divided into two sessions. There’s a discount, if you take both. The sessions are on Thursdays 12:30 MT, 1:30 CT. The first session is on September 16 and the second is on September 23. Check out the web site to see what is covered when, how to register, and how to pay. http://link.ixs1.net/s...
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Midcontinental Region News - September 2, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Classes and Training Technology
Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism | Simon Jenkins
In Downing Street, Blair never fulfilled his early promise and let Brown in. Now he can only emit a long wail of impotenceWho said books are dead? Did he blog or tweet, video or iPad? No, Tony Blair wanted to get a message across, so he wrote a book. He smeared the black stuff on trees, stitched it together and made people go out to buy it. Good for him.Blair's mildly engaging stream of auto-eroticism shows him memoirising much as he ruled. He uses the first person singular a million times. He stages everything. He fixes on a theme and controls the narrative. The intention is to smother an Iraq apologia in endless quotable...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - September 2, 2010 Author: Simon Jenkins Tags: Tony Blair Politics Labour Politics past UK news Margaret Thatcher Books Gordon Brown Labour government 1997 - 1999 The Guardian Comment Comment is free
Toronto collects electronics for recycling
Toronto, in collaboration with the Ontario Electronic Stewardship, is making it easier for their citizens to recycle old electronics. They’ve instituted curbside collection for single family residents and containerized collection for multi-family apartment buildings. They’ve also done a series of public service announcements featuring Chuck and Vince. These guys *really* want you to recycle your electronics. Watch the videos here.
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Environmental News Bits - September 2, 2010 Author: Laura B. Tags: Canada E-Waste Recycling
The Famous Greener All-Purpose Cleaner Recipe
An infomercial-style video about how to make an inexpensive all-purpose cleaner that’s better for you, better for your household and better for the environment. Brought to you by the Washington Department of Ecology.
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Environmental News Bits - September 2, 2010 Author: Laura B. Tags: Green Business Green Lifestyle video
New MARC records available from Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press has released 4 new sets of MARC records, which are currently available for download You can also find MARC records for Alexander Street collections on OCLC WorldCat.
New record sets include:
* Latin American Women Writers, supplement 2 - This set contains 133 records with links to 133 sources, in MARC8 format
* Latino Literature, supplement 1 - This set contains 82 records with links to 82 sources, in MARC8 format
* Dance in video, supplement 1 - This set contains 147 records with links to 161 works, in both MARC8 and UTF8 formats
* Alexander Street Literature, supplement 1 - Please note, this supp...
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Peter Scott's Library Blog - September 2, 2010
Quotes Uncovered: Memorable Movie Lines
Two years ago, I asked for suggestions for the most memorable movie lines of recent years, to help with the next edition of The Yale Book of Quotations. Let me repeat my "bleg" from that time, and ask again for suggestions
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Freakonomics Blog - September 2, 2010 Author: By FRED SHAPIRO Tags: Uncategorized fred shapiro movies quotes
Mongoliad is live
From Boing Boing. I hate serials so I won’t jump in, but I’ll probably buy the thing when it’s finished.
The Mongoliad is live! This is the collaborative, participatory shared-world project from Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and pals. It’s an epic fantasy novel about the Mongol conquest, told in installment form, with lots of supplementary material (video, stills, short fiction, etc), and a strong audience participation component in the form of a Wikipedia-style concordance, fanfic, etc. You can read the free samples without registration, but you need an account to edit the “Pedia.”
For $...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 2, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba publishing Greg Bear Mongoliad Neal Stephenson serial
New: Video of Lecture at Library of Congress: "A Web Science View of Data Curation
From a Summary:
The Data Conservancy is one of two initial awards through the National Science Foundatiom's DataNet Program. The Data Conservancy embraces a shared vision: data curation is not an end, but rather a means to collect, organize, validate and preserve data to address grand research challenges. Sayeed Choudhury provides an overview of the Data [...]
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ResourceShelf - September 2, 2010 Tags: Search News
Kobo brings ereading to Samsung Galaxy Tab
As I mentioned below, we will be at the US release of the Tab, and now here is some great news for Kobo. From the Samsung press release:
As a new category of device, the Samsung GALAXY Tab brings a wealth of mobile experiences. Its striking 7” TFT-LCD display delivers exciting mobile experience for watching films, viewing pictures, e-reading or sharing documents. In design, its light (380g) build provides perfect portability, with its svelte dimensions making it easy to grip and use. Supporting the latest Adobe Flash Player 10.1, the Samsung GALAXY Tab fully supports swift, seamless viewing of every single page of the w...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 2, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Kobo Paul Biba Tablet ereader Galaxy Galaxy Tab Samsung
Professor Sprout from the Harry Potter series | Flickr - Photo ...
Dress up as your favorite book/movie/comic book character, and and get your photo taken for the Library's celebration of National Library Card Sign
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pligg - all - September 2, 2010 Tags: Public Libraries
SpaceTime 3D for visual search
There are a few visual search engines around at the moment, and SpaceTime 3D is a new one that I've just discovered. A visual search engine is one that displays results for you visually - usually as a series of thumbnail shots, although of course it there are other alternatives. SpaceTime 3D displays pages in an arc, and you can flick through them, clicking on any that interest you. Spacetime has search options for Google, Images, Wikipedia and youtube. I have to guess at the selling point, since there's nothing on the page to tell me anything about these people, but it's the size of the thumbnail - it's ve...
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Phil Bradley - September 2, 2010 Author: philipbradley Tags: Visual search engines
Two New Resources from NASA: An App Specifically for iPad & New Image of a Lunar Crater
1. A New NASA App for iPad (officially named NASA App HD for iPad) is Now Available (Free).
The new app features:
+ Thousands of images from NASA IOTD, APOD and NASAImages.org
+ On demand NASA videos from around the agency
+ Live Streaming of NASA TV
[...]
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ResourceShelf - September 1, 2010 Tags: Source File Web 2.0
August Anime Club Meeting
Today was the August meeting of the Anime Club, right on the eve of everyone returning to school. Tim showed us some clips from the Sonic the Hedgehog anime movie, clips from the Japanese video game it was based on, and some bonus Japanese Sonic commercials! Our manga drawing theme for the meeting was back-to-school, so we also watched some school-themed anime clips. I had super-cute school supplies--piggy pencil sharpeners and panda/frog erasers--for the four winners. (I got them at the dollar store by H-Mart, if you want to track down some for yourself.) Here are all of the drawings: Actual school supplies! Kelliann had ...
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Sellers Library Teens - September 1, 2010 Tags: Anime Club art back to school pictures drawing summer 2010 programs manga
A Video Demo of Google TV (Coming Soon) & Info About Revamped Apple TV (Available in Four Weeks)
With the news today that Apple is going to release a revamped version of Apple TV for $99 in about a month we thought it would be a good time to post a video demo of Google TV that is scheduled to launch this Fall.
video Demo of Google TV (StuffWeLike.com via youtube
The six minute [...]
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ResourceShelf - September 1, 2010 Tags: Search News Web 2.0
Billy Liar – still in town
Billy Liar, a story of smalltown frustration, captivated a generation, pre-empted the 60s – and even inspired Oasis. As the stage play returns, Laura Barton asks Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie why it endures'I don't think about Billy Liar very often." Tom Courtenay's voice hovers on the line. We have been discussing his upcoming holiday to the north-east coast, splashing about in the warm shallows of the present-day; at this detour into the past, he pauses, and retreats a little. "If I read it now, it would make me laugh," he concludes lightly, distantly. "But I honestly don't know why it's lasted. Who can s...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - September 1, 2010 Author: Laura Barton Tags: Theatre Stage Drama Film Culture Keith Waterhouse Books The Guardian Features
Jobs reveals new iPod line, Apple TV, iOS 4.1, iTunes 10
Steve Jobs had some interesting things to reveal today. In the iPod line, the Shuffle, Nano, and Touch get refreshes. No mention at all of the Classic line; I suppose they’ve had their day.
The Shuffle moves forward by taking a step back—the new one resembles a smaller version of the second in form factor, bringing back the buttons everybody missed from the third, but with the Voiceover and other nifty features that people did like from the third.
The Nano loses the physical controls and goes multitouch, looking like a smaller version of the iPod Touch (but without apps). Now we know what that mysterious small square t...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Apple Chris Meadows iPad iPhone iPod Touch Apple TV iOS iOS 4.1 Steve Jobs
Jobs reveals new iPod line, Apple TV, iOS 4.1, iTunes 10
Steve Jobs had some interesting things to reveal today. In the iPod line, the Shuffle, Nano, and Touch get refreshes. No mention at all of the Classic line; I suppose they’ve had their day.
The Shuffle moves forward by taking a step back—the new one resembles a smaller version of the second in form factor, bringing back the buttons everybody missed from the third, but with the Voiceover and other nifty features that people did like from the third.
The Nano loses the physical controls and goes multitouch, looking like a smaller version of the iPod Touch (but without apps). Now we know what that mysterious small square t...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Apple Chris Meadows iPad iPhone iPod Touch Apple TV iOS iOS 4.1 Steve Jobs
The Business Case for Enterprise Social Bookmarking: $4.6 Million a Year in Cost Savings!
A couple of weeks ago, the amazingly talented Dion Hinchcliffe put together a blog post under the title of “The 2010 Social Business Landscape” that would probably classify as one of the most insightful, resourceful and essential articles published during the course of this year that everyone in the industry should be reading. Yes, in case you may not have seen it, it is that good! Worth while your time, for sure!, specially, if you are into some amazing graphicware like this one. But, there is something missing from that article, don’t you think? Something that, in my opinion, is one of the fundamental p...
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E L S U A ~ A KM Blog - September 1, 2010 Author: Luis Suarez Tags: Collaboration Communities Enterprise2.0 IBM Innovation Knowledge Management Knowledge Tools Learning Personal KM Productivity Tools Social Computing
Neue Brille – natürlich mit Gläsern von Transitions
Nach 10 Jahren mit dem bisherigen Gestell auf der Nase ist es wieder Mal Zeit für eine neue Brille. Die letzte hab ich noch in einem heute nicht mehr bestehenden Brillen-Laden im Nauwieser Viertel in Saarbrücken erstanden. Die heute ausgesuchte Brille wurde nach erstklasiger Beratung bei Optiker Kelb in Wandsbek in Auftrag gegeben. Schwarz sollte sie wieder sein, modern, aber schlicht, und teilweise rahmenlos. Auf dieses Exemplar ist nach eindringlicher Prüfung meine Wahl gefallen:
Eine Sehstärkenbestimmung beim Augenarzt samt Vorsorgeuntersuchung ging dem Brillenkauf voraus. Dort erhielt ich neben dem positiven Befun...
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Text & Blog - September 1, 2010 Author: Markus Tags: Allgemeines Foto
The music event: Why Apple is streaming it, and how to watch without Apple
A couple of further notes about Apple’s event, due to start in just over an hour. Leander Kahney at Cult of Mac has an exclusive tip from an insider who explains that the streaming process is going to serve as a stress test for Apple’s new server farm, which will later be used to stream a version of iTunes for iOS devices.
Kahney notes:
Some have speculated that Apple is streaming the show to thwart livebloggers, who may have sabotaged Jobs’ iPhone 4 keynote at Apple’s WWDC event in June. Problems with the venue’s WiFi network ruined Jobs’ FaceTime demo and forced him to ask bloggers in the audience to shut the...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Apple Chris Meadows iPad iPod Touch event ITunes streaming video
The music event: Why Apple is streaming it, and how to watch without Apple
A couple of further notes about Apple’s event, due to start in just over an hour. Leander Kahney at Cult of Mac has an exclusive tip from an insider who explains that the streaming process is going to serve as a stress test for Apple’s new server farm, which will later be used to stream a version of iTunes for iOS devices.
Kahney notes:
Some have speculated that Apple is streaming the show to thwart livebloggers, who may have sabotaged Jobs’ iPhone 4 keynote at Apple’s WWDC event in June. Problems with the venue’s WiFi network ruined Jobs’ FaceTime demo and forced him to ask bloggers in the audience to shut the...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Apple Chris Meadows iPad iPod Touch event ITunes streaming video
Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Upcoming events and digital media // September 1, 2010
[1] [TUESDAY 9/7] Berkman Center Fall Open House (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/openhouse)
[2] [CONFERENCE 9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have
Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA
(http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/)
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN CENTER OPEN HOUSE
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Tuesday, September 7, 6:00 pm
Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Campus (Map: http://bit.ly/poundmap)
Free and Open to...
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Berkman Blog - September 1, 2010 Author: ashar
September 2010
Welcome to the Link. Each month the ipl2 brings you some of the best information sites on the Internet. If you have an Internet connection, you can connect with us!
The September edition of the Link is filled with birthdays and celebrations throughout the world. So join the party and explore the world through these colorful and informative websites!
Suggest a site for the ipl2. Know of a great site, but you cannot find it in the ipl2? Use the form located at http://www.ipl.org/div/contact/ to let us know about good resources to add to our collections.
September 1 – Independence Day Uzbekistan
Uzbek...
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Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week - September 1, 2010 Author: theipl2blog Tags: Drexel University newsletter
Scott Pilgrim vs The World fr Xbox 360 and PS3 | Game review
Xbox 360/PS3; £10; cert 12+; UbisoftAnyone familiar with Edgar Wright's oeuvre (and especially Spaced) can't have failed to notice the director of Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a major-league video game obsessive, and the film itself rams that point home.Happily, this is not the usual game-as-merchandising tat – indeed, it takes an approach that should be made compulsory for all games publishers looking to cash in on Hollywood's enduring mass appeal. Instead of seeking to extract more cash from you than it would take to see the film, Scott Pilgrim vs The World joins the burgeoning ranks of the retro homages found on the...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - September 1, 2010 Author: Steve Boxer Tags: Games Technology Xbox PS3 Comics guardian.co.uk Reviews
Television and Video Viewing Time Among Children Aged 2 Years --- Oregon, 2006--2007
Television and video Viewing Time Among Children Aged 2 Years --- Oregon, 2006--2007
Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC)
Excessive exposure of children to television and videos (viewing time) is associated with impaired childhood development (1) and childhood obesity (2). In 2001, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that children watch no more than [...]
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Docuticker - September 1, 2010 Tags: Children and families Ethnic Media and entertainment Race Social and cultural issues
Hannspree to release tablet in November
Hannspree has released some good products in the past so I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with a tablet.
According to Liliputing, they will release a 10 inch tablet with a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 16GB of internal storage, and Google Android 2.2 Froyo. It will also have WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI output, a USB port and microSD card slot. It comes with a 3500mAh battery and can handle 1080p HD video playback thanks to the NVIDIA chipset.
It will be released in Europe and there is no word about a US release.
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba Tablet Android Hannspree
