Category: Ideas
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oskope.com – a potental catalogue interface?
Just learned about the oSkope visual search engine, currently searching Amazon, eBay, Flickr and Youtube. Kind of fun to play with – here’s a quick screencast. Would a display like this make it more "fun" to use the library catalogue? Technorati Tags: oskope
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CafeScribe – online textbooks
Not very much content there yet, mostly law titles, but CafeScribe seems to be somewhat like ebrary for textbooks – you can search, highlight and take notes in the volumes you purchase. Found via Mashable.
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2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere
Meredith Farkas is repeating the survey she did a couple of years ago to try and get another snapshot of the Biblioblogosphere. If you’re involved in the library world and are a blogger, please consider taking her survey. I just finished it and have a couple of suggestions for clarification in the next iteration 🙂 …
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Self-destructing email
BigString Originally uploaded by ppival Saw this post at Ars Technica describing a service called BigString that allows one to send self-destructing email. They do it by sending an image of whatever text you type, and then depending on the parameters you set, make that image (still actually hosted at BigString) expire after…
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Worldcat Meets Wikipedia: Open Library
I haven’t been paying much attention to the announcement early this week about the new demo of Open Library, but I finally found myself on the site of the Disruptive Library Technology Jester, Peter Murray, and he’s got a 12-minute screencast of how the thing works. In a nutshell, to me it seems like Worldcat…
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Technology Readiness
Stephen Bell at ACRLog posts about data from a survey of technology readiness that may help explain why you feel overwhelmed by all this new stuff there is to play with, but also why your more experienced colleagues are even less likely to want to play with it. Interesting stuff.
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Librarian 2.0 – Interviews on the future of libraries
A couple of months ago Will Sherman, writing for DegreeTutor.com, interviewed me as part of a series on the Future of Libraries. Will came to the attention of the library world earlier this year with his good piece, 33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important. The series of interviews with Librarians and…
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Recommended article in ONLINE
I second Judith’s recommendation to read William Badke’s new column, InfoLit Land, in ONLINE. You can’t find it on the open web, but it’s in all the big aggregators (ProQuest, EBSCO, InfoTrac, though none yet have the July/August issue up). Last issue’s column (May/June Vol. 31(3), pp. 50-52) was Bill’s intro, A Champion of Information…
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Setting them free
I did some searching on Google News and it doesn’t look like this story was widely-distributed, so here’s a link to my local paper’s version. Unfortunately my local paper’s website sucks and this link will most likely disappear within the week, so read it quickly if this interests you. The article profiles three authors who’ve…