Category: Ideas
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Handheld Librarian Online
From the conference website: More people than ever are using mobile devices for a wide variety of purposes including communication, internet access, text messaging, and entertainment. It is important that libraries provide services on these devices as use increases. The first ever Handheld Librarian Online on July 30, 2009 is the place to learn about…
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Brigham Young Library Tests Kindle as ILL Alternative
Gerrit van Dyk, Document Delivery Services Manager at Brigham Young University, blogs about their new initiative to loan Kindles to faculty members instead of trying to obtain new material via ILL. You can also read a brief article about this at Library Journal. Kindle, ILL, BYU
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Do you love books or do you love reading?
Ann Kirschner has a thought-provoking piece in the Chronicle describing how she read a 1,000 page novel across four different formats; paperback, audiobook, iPhone and Kindle. You might be surprised at what she decided was the best format, at least for her. As an aside, I'm now reading my fourth book in the Stanza iPhone…
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Citations your way – beta test SiteCite
Andrew Pasterfield, one of our library programmers, has built a tool for himself that you might also find useful. Site Cite allows you to bookmark websites with a URL of your choosing, so you can recite it to another person w/o having to look it up. As long as you can remember the URL of…
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Digi-Man and Interrobangs
Another winning episode of the CBC Spark podcast. Episode 79 talks with Seamus Ross, Dean of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto about digital preservation, and I also learned about the interrobang (‽). Here’s a goofy non-library example of the importance of digital preservation:
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More on Libraries and eBooks
Following up on my earlier post about licensing issues around ebooks and libraries, Sue at No Shelf Required discusses the same Teleread post: Is it possible to donate an eBook to the library? In the comments, Dan D'Agostino mentions he's got a new blog on his (collection development librarian) perspective of eBook reader technology at…
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First Impressions
I finally got around to reading a couple of posts I'd squirreled away, and they turn out to be somewhat related. Brian Mathews posts about 5 next-gen library catalogs and 5 students: their initial impressions. Important to us here at the UofC as we continue to beta test Summon. While admittedly not scientific, there are…
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In which the public learns about licensing
Teleread has an interesting post entitled How to give away an ebook after you’ve read it in which the author suggests people purchase ebooks for their local library rather for themselves, thus allowing multiple people to read the book (once the original purchaser has had a chance to read it). Sounds like a great idea,…