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  • MLA no longer requires URLs

    Michael Rees at Impressons Scholarcast reports that in the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers print should no longer be treated as the default medium, AND that the MLA has ceased to recommend inclusion of URLs in citing Web-based works – unless the instructor requires it or a reader would…

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  • Orange County Lib System (FL) Brings Library Catalog Access to iPhones

    From the press release found at Library Technology Guides, “The Orange County Library System in Florida is providing iPhone access to its library catalog using Innovative’s AirPAC product. A test-group of library users is now using iPhones to search the catalog, request items, and renew checked-out materials. This new capability launched in January 2009 as…

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  • CFP: International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD2009)

    *****************************************************************************CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD2009) September 8-11, 2009 – University of Trento, Trento (ITALY)***************************************************************************** Digital libraries, in the central view of the term, focus on storing and organizing digital objects and providing access to these objects through professional or user-generated metadata or content-based search (full text, image…

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  • SickCity – an innovative use of social networking software

    SickCity uses mentions of terms such as "flu" "sore throat" and "feeling ill" on Twitter to track outbreaks of illness in a given city.  Similar to Google Flu Trends, yet different in that GFT tracks only the US at the State level, while SickCity shoots for a more local level, and worldwide.  Right now they've…

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  • Calgary Public Library’s Living Library

    I've heard of other libraries "circulating" people as living books, but now it's here in Calgary, at least as a one-day gig.  This group of "books" is sponsored by Diversity Services, and includes titles such as Person in a Wheelchair, Sikh, Hajab Wearing Muslim Woman, Animal Rights Activist, French Canadian, and many more.  Neat.

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