Louis Riel: a comic-strip biography by Chester Brown (April 2007)
In 1869, the Red River Settlement area, home to the French-speaking Metis, is sold to the Canadian government. Louis Riel, the de facto leader of the Red River Settlement, demands that they be granted the right to govern themselves. Not suprisingly, the government refuses this. This story relates Riel's resistance to the Canadian government's mistreatment of the Metis community.Louis Riel - wikipediahttps://owa.fibrehost.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_RielLouis Riel - rethinking Riel (CBC Archives)Louis Riel - Trivial Pursuit (CBC Archives) Place a hold on a WPL copy of the book here.
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WPLBOOKCLUB - April 20, 2016 Author: Christine
La Wikipedia y las universidades, ¿una deuda pendiente?
Por: Sergio Rondan para BiteliaLa wikipedia se ha convertido en el manual de consultas del día a día para muchos de los internautas. Allí cientos de personas se dan cita para encontrar cualquier tipo de información que necesiten, ya sea por pura curiosidad o para trabajos escolares. Es decir, la wikipedia reemplazo a la vieja enciclopedia Encarta con la cual muchos de nosotros realizábamos tareas para la escuela.Pero lo importante no fue el surgimiento en sí, sino la puesta en marcha de un modelo de conocimiento colaborativo, comunitario, libre y gratuito para el todo el mundo. Esto ya existía desde que Stallmancreo...
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infoesfera.com - September 2, 2010 Author: contacto at infoesfera.com (Infoesfera.com) Tags: Bibliotecas Add new tag Biblosfera educación web wikipedia
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
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
Torrent My Books: een nieuwe downloadsite voor studieboeken
Tot twee jaar geleden was TextBookTorrents een populaire website voor het downloaden van studieboeken. Toen de site uit de lucht werd gehaald waren er weliswaar nog meer dan genoeg alternatieven, maar een echte opvolger verscheen niet ten tonele.
Nu is die opvolger alsnog gelanceerd, in de vorm van Torrent My Books. Het verschil met TextBookTorrents is dat de nieuwkomer geen eigen tracker (centraal distributiepunt voor P2P) heeft. Torrent My Books wordt ongetwijfeld weer een hit onder studenten en andere liefhebbers. Je leest er meer over op TorrentFreak.
Over het downloaden van boeken gesproken: Steve Jobs hee...
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Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek - September 1, 2010 Tags: studieboeken gratis studieboeken downloaden illegale downloads p2p Pirate Bay Textbook Torrents Torrentsites
1906 Chicago Manual of Style: Free, but not DRM-free
This month’s free e-book from the University of Chicago Press is a replica of the very first, 1906 edition of the Chicago Manual of Style to commemorate the 16th edition of that work.
Of course, as with all University of Chicago Press free e-books, this book comes wrapped in Adobe Digital Editions DRM—even though, since it was originally published in 1906, this book is well within the public domain by now. (Oddly, I can’t seem to find any public domain version of it on-line, at least not in Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, or Manybooks. There is a somewhat rough scan of a 1911 edition on wikimedia Commons, however.)
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Chris Meadows DRM Free ebooks copyright e-book public domain Chicago Manual of Style free e-book University of Chicago Press
1906 Chicago Manual of Style: Free, but not DRM-free
This month’s free e-book from the University of Chicago Press is a replica of the very first, 1906 edition of the Chicago Manual of Style to commemorate the 16th edition of that work.
Of course, as with all University of Chicago Press free e-books, this book comes wrapped in Adobe Digital Editions DRM—even though, since it was originally published in 1906, this book is well within the public domain by now. (Oddly, I can’t seem to find any public domain version of it on-line, at least not in Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, or Manybooks. There is a somewhat rough scan of a 1911 edition on wikimedia Commons, however.)
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Chris Meadows DRM Free ebooks copyright e-book public domain Chicago Manual of Style free e-book University of Chicago Press
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
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Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week - September 1, 2010 Author: theipl2blog Tags: Drexel University newsletter
Integrating the hospital library with patient care, teaching and research: model and Web 2.0 tools to create a social and collaborative community of clinical research in a hospital setting.
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Integrating the hospital library with patient care, teaching and research: model and Web 2.0 tools to create a social and collaborative community of clinical research in a hospital setting.
Health Info Libr J. 2010 Sep 1;27(3):217-26
Authors: San José Montano B, Garcia Carretero R, Varela Entrecanales M, Pozuelo PM
Background: Research in hospital settings faces several difficulties. Information technologies and certain Web 2.0 tools may provide new models to tackle these problems, allowing for a collaborative approach and bridging the gap between clinical practice, teac...
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PubMed: "Health information ... - September 1, 2010 Author: San José Montano B, Garcia Carretero R, Varela Entrecanales M, Pozuelo PM Tags: Health Info Libr J
36% of online Americans consult Wikipedia
More than one-third of American adult Internet users consult the citizen-generated online encyclopedia wikipedia, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And on a typical day, 8 percent of online Americans consult wikipedia. wikipedia is one place to start when understanding your research topic but another place would be Credo Reference. It is a huge collection of great reference books: encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, measurement conversions and much more!We also subscribe to Oxford Reference Online and Gale Reference Online, both contain great collections of reference books! You can find these und...
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CSBSJU Library Blog - September 1, 2010 Author: CSB/SJU News & Events
Library Blog Search
Sometimes when I am working on a post, I wonder if another library blogger has already covered it - an am afraid I’ll look kind of dumb rehashing something.
So I thought, wouldn’t it be great to set up a Google custom search engine to search all library-related blogs? Before I did, I checked if anyone already created one, and it turned out Library Zen had - four years ago (I’m even further behind than I thought).
LISZEN Search searches over 500 library blogs, and has an accompanying wiki to keep track. If you write about the library world, add yourself.
Something related that would also be nice is a cus...
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herzogbr.net blog - August 31, 2010 Author: Brian Herzog Tags: Library Technology blog blogs co-op cse custom search engine google librarian librarians libraries liszen public Websites
Scott Rosenberg defends hyperlinking
Scott Rosenberg, late of Salon Magazine, has an interesting post on his blog, Wordyard. It is actually a rebuttal to another post by Nicholas Carr depicting hyperlinking as a bad, confusing thing. Rosenberg points out that Carr is actually conflating two different forms of linking in his rant: the artistic and the pragmatic.
Artistic hyperlinking is predicated on creating an artistic work in segments with links that lead to different parts of the work. An example might be a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. Pragmatic hyperlinking uses links as footnotes and references, demonstrating where information comes from and whe...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - August 31, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Chris Meadows hypertext novel hyperlinking links Nicholas Carr Scott Rosenberg
Wikipedia and Wikileaks: Jimmy Wales on Some People Not Understanding the Difference
Confusion between one source and another is rather sad but not that infrequent. Also, in the web age the people say the source of an article they’ve read is Google News or Yahoo News not understanding that they aggregate but (in a majority of cases) don’t supply that much original content. Yes, both news engines clearly list the source but apparently some users do not pay attention. Go back ten years and it was the same thing with web browsers and search engines. In other words, “What Search Engine Did You Use?” The answer would be something like, “Netscape.”
From an article in The Inde...
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ResourceShelf - August 30, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Uncategorized
Free textbooks online, and a few other favorite resources
Open Culture (a wonderful blog that deserves your full attention if you’ve never visited) and led by Dan Colman at Stanford U., has started compiling a collection of free textbooks available on the web. The post mentions to check back often to find new titles. Hopefully, as new titles are added they can be easily found by including an “added on” date or perhaps placed in the collection and on a separate list, with the date added also included.
From the Open Culture Text Book Post:
Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgeable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 1...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - August 30, 2010 Author: Gary Price Founder and Senior Editor of Resource Shelf Tags: Free ebooks Gary Price Paul Biba Resource Shelf etextbook library Open Culture Openlibrary WatchKnow
“Meta-Collection: Free Textbooks Online” and a Few Other Favorite Freebies
Open Culture (a wonderful blog that deserves your full attention if you’ve never visited) and led by Dan Colman at Stanford U., has started compiling a collection of free textbooks available on the web. The post mentions to check back often to find new titles. Hopefully, as new titles are added they can be easily found by including an “added on” date or perhaps placed in the collection and on a separate list, with the date added also included.
From the Open Culture Text Book Post:
Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgeable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta lis...
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ResourceShelf - August 30, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Uncategorized
Burn your books (actually, don't) | MIchael Tomasky
A conversation this weekend got me thinking about book-banning in America. This list on amazon.com purports to be of the 20 most challenged and banned books in the US. You can Google around. Other lists seem similar.I haven't heard of most of these. They're children's books. Numero uno is called Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which is a trilogy by a fellow called Alvin Schwartz. Its wikipedia page cites the issues as being its "religious viewpoint and violence as well as for being occultist, satanic, or inappropriate."Number two is Daddy's Roommate, with which Sarah Palin had a contentious history of some sort as we le...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - August 30, 2010 Author: Michael Tomasky Tags: United States Books guardian.co.uk Blogposts Comment is free
Extra Aside Bar -- From the editor
The immediacy of a blog makes the subject of this post seem a little outdated, but we'd normally be addressing the SLA conference in New Orleans in the Summer issue and I didn't want it to go unmentioned.My SLA experience was largely colored by the fact that I was wheelchair-bound thanks not to a parachuting accident but sheer clumsiness the week before. A special thanks to Amy Disch for helping me get around, as well as the random librarians I met along the way who volunteered to help push me here and there.This year, the sessions to me seemed more informative than full of whiz-bang ideas to take back to your shop. Not t...
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NewsliBlog - August 29, 2010 Author: jdomel
Reference Question of the Week - 8/22/10
This was sort of a frustrating question, but in the end was fun - mainly because I get to tag this post “gonzo reference.”
A patron came rushing up to the desk (literally) and said he quickly needed to know John Philip Sousa’s religion. Since time was important, I gave the patron Encyclopedia Britannica and showed him how to find the John Philip Sousa article, while I searched wikipedia. Neither identified his religion, so the next step was to grab the one Sousa biography we had on the shelf, and the patron looked through the index under “faith,” “religion,” etc., while I kept se...
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herzogbr.net blog - August 28, 2010 Author: Brian Herzog Tags: Library Reference Question Technology gonzo reference john philip sousa libraries public religion
In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands by Martin Gilbert | Book review
David J Goldberg finds that a study of Jews under Muslim rule suffers from its broad-brush approachThe feared doyen of Judaic scholars in the US is Professor Jacob Neusner, an abrasive curmudgeon who, to borrow football manager Sir Alex Ferguson's description of an opposition player, could start a fight in an empty room. wikipedia credits him with the authorship or editorship of 950 books – a stat that has prompted a joke about a student who knocks on his door, asking to see the professor. "You can't," says Neusner's wife. "He's writing a book." "That's alright," replies the student. "I'll wait."In this country Sir Marti...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - August 27, 2010 Tags: Books Culture Martin Gilbert History Politics Religion The Guardian Reviews
Updating LIS768 List of Context Books for Student Reports
This morning I’m updating one of my favorite assignments for LIS768 Participatory Service and Emerging Technologies. Two years ago, I asked for further suggestions to share with my class. Today. I’ll do the same: what would you add? Please share in the comments below. I’ll be including the post URL in the course site.
Original post from 2008: http://tametheweb.com/2008/09/10/lis768-reading-list/
Current list included in syllabus:
Assignment – Context Book Report – 10 points
Students will read a book selected from the list provided below or suggest another title for Michael’s approval, and ...
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Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology - August 27, 2010 Author: Michael Tags: Dominican University GSLIS
Call for Chapters: Getting Started with Cloud Computing (a LITA Guide)
Call for Chapters: Getting Started with Cloud Computing (a LITA Guide)Dear Librarian Colleagues:Consider writing a chapter for the forthcoming book, “Getting started with cloud computing: A LITA guide”.Edward Corrado and Heather Moulaison, editors, are looking for 8-12 page (double spaced standard font) chapters on either:1. Applications and services used by librarians in the cloud and how they might be used in a variety of libraries, including information on:a. The tool itself (what it does, why it could be of use to libraries)b. Why librarians should know about this application or service2. Descriptions of best pract...
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A Library Writer's Blog - August 27, 2010 Author: Corey
Library News 08/27/2010
Hurrah for cooler weather, everyone seemed in a better mood. We continue to get more and more new stuff, DVDs, databases etc. DatabasesYou can use both of these off campus if you have the log-in and password brochure available in the library when you show your valid student ID. It is amazing to me how many students get home and decide they need to use the databases and call the library to ask for them. WE WILL NOT GIVE THE PASSWORDS OVER THE PHONE OR IN EMAIL!! We really, really mean it!Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition provides the Encyclopaedia Britannica, plus statistics...
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AIDallas Library - August 27, 2010 Author: Casto
In For a Penny, In For a Pound… My Promotion “Case for Support”
JUst before going away on holiday, I popped up a questionnaire asking for a little help working out what sort of impact – if any – I had on folk that could weave in to my promotion case for support… Thanks to all who took the time out to reply (it was very humbling:-)
Anyway, for what it’s worth, here’s a draft of the Case for Support, which I need to submit tomorrow. Whilst I haven’t been able to add direct quotes from the questionnaire responses – the word limit is set at 1500 words – your responses did inform what I wrote: some of the words are very heavily loaded and more...
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OUseful Info - August 26, 2010 Author: Tony Hirst Tags: Admin... Anything you want promotion case
Happy Women's Equality Day!
August 26 is Women's Equality Day, to celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This is the 90th anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States. After more than 70 years of ceaseless campaigning, our grandmothers (and a few of our grandfathers who supported them!) finally won for us the right to vote in public elections. The League of Women Voters has a very nice website with a brief history of the struggle. Here is the way they "bookend" the effort: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others first seriously proposed women’s right to vote at Seneca Falls, N.Y., on July 19, 1848. Prior to this...
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Out of the Jungle - August 26, 2010 Author: Betsy McKenzie
Lessons in Creating open source software
Ed Corrado has a nice post entitled “Little Things Matter” on some key things that open source software creators should keep in mind. I agree with the spirit of what Ed says wholeheartedly.
I can’t tell you how many times when I was an open source noob, I’d wonder what the heck the installation instructions were talking about or was frustrated because no one answered questions posted to the listserv. I suppose that is one of the reasons I thought “when I write a book on open source web applications that it will contain specific installation instructions”. Having written that book now, it...
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Library Web Chic - August 25, 2010 Author: Karen Tags: open source software
eBooks, filetype, and DRM
This morning I got a tweet from Bobbi Newman that said:
librarianbyday
Can someone explain to me the tech reasons Kindle doesn’t work with library ebooks, know its DRM, want more specific plz & thnx @griffey
More than you ever wanted to know about filetypes, DRM, and eBooks…here we go.
There are two different things going on when someone tries to open an eBook file on an eReader. One is filetype…how the file itself is organized internally, how the information contained within is encoded. This is analogous to the difference between a Word file saved as a .doc file, a Word file saved as a .docx file, ...
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Pattern Recognition - August 25, 2010 Author: griffey Tags: Books Gadgets Media Technology amazon DRM ebook ebooks kindle library overdrive sony
Feds Investigating Wikipedia Editing
We all know that editing a wikipedia entry is fairly straightforward – and that the wikiguardians keep a vigilant eye over entries and edits that stray from the norms of objectivity and verifiability.
So the announcement that the Correctional Service’s internal operations arm is investigating an edit made to the wikipedia entry on Canada’s Official Languages Act, which appears to have been made from a government computer connected to the Corrections Canada server at the department’s offices on Laurier Street in Ottawa, is arousing the interest of the mainstream media. Denis Coderre appears to hav...
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Slaw - August 25, 2010 Author: Simon Chester Tags: Legal Information: Information Management Reading: Recommended
Mapa da web
Gráfico traça o mapa da web com ícones Autor: Vinicius Aguiari.Fonte: Info Online . Data: 25/08/2010.O site Nmap.org colocou no ar um infográfico com a representação dos 300 mil maiores sites da web, de acordo com o ranking do site Alexa.com.No gráfico, o tamanho do ícone do site corresponde ao seu alcance na web. Como o esperado, o Google lidera, seguido do Facebook e do Yahoo!. Segundo o infográfico, o Google tem um alcance de 91,79% na web, enquanto Facebook e Yahoo! atingem 29,17% e 23,45% dos usuários. YouTube, MSN, wikipedia, Wordpress e Gravatar são outros que aparecem no topo da tabela.O ícone do Google...
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A "INFORMAÇÃO" - August 25, 2010 Tags: Internet
X-Ray Vans Challenge Privacy
Forbes published a story online yesterday about the use of “backscatter x-ray vision” in mobile vans. This scanning technology is the same as that employed at some airports, enabling authorities to see through clothing and luggage. The article features the product being advertized and sold by American Science and Engineering, which has sold more than 500 of the scanners. Their (in my view, creepy) promotional video is embedded below:
The backscatter technology and safety are discussed in the wikipedia article on the subject.
The use of this technology creates obvious privacy problems, particularly when wielded...
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Slaw - August 25, 2010 Author: Simon Fodden Tags: Substantive Law Technology
Court Web Site Guidelines – Principles 7, 8 and 9 (Bilinguism, Accessibility, Interactivity)
Earlier last week, I presented the CCCT IntellAction Working Group selection of principles that should guide the design and organization of court web sites and further explained, in a later post, principles 4, 5 and 6 on notification, content organization & search and security. In this post, I further explain the next three principles:
Principle #7: Bilinguism
Principle #8: Accessibility
Principle #9: Interactivity
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Principle #7: Bilinguism
Canadian courts need to offer bilingual web sites, as a minimum; and wherever appropriate and desired, even offer additional languages. The bi...
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Slaw - August 25, 2010 Author: Patrick Cormier Tags: Legal Information: Information Management Technology: Internet CCCT guidelines
