Category: Ideas
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Library Videos
My Groundhog’s Day resolution was to clear out some of this stuff I’ve been wanting to blog for a week or two. Stephen Abram mentions that InfoToday is accepting nominations for the InfoTubey Awards: “InfoTubies recognize those libraries or individuals who have created YouTube library-related productions that promote a library, or library services, or enhance…
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CFS: Internet Librarian International
This was going to be the year that I was going to go to Internet Librarian International. Alas, another opportunity came up and I’m being forced to save my money instead for a Caribbean cruise – poor me. If you’re thinking of heading to London in October, you’ll want to be aware of the call…
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Google Scholar’s as good as the library
This is the conclusion of a research study to be published in the next issue of Internet and Higher Education. I’ve emailed the authors to see if they’re planning on depositing the paper in their Institutional Repository… It’s only a pre-print right now so I can’t give you a complete citation, but if you subscribe…
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Continuous Partial Attention – “That’s your opinion!”
Somehow it seems longer ago that I had three posts in quick succession about continuous partial attention, but maybe that’s ’cause two minutes is too long to concentrate. BoingBoing notes a post about an article in the Washington Post in which a HS Librarian Media Specialist attempts to “sell” his students on the importance of…
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Help Tod with his radio piece on Google Downloadable Books
I haven’t taken the time yet to read up on the reports of Google’s proposed book download project, but CBC Technology Reporter Tod Maffin is asking for your help in fact-checking a piece he’s putting together for a Thursday AM airing. For a really short piece aimed at the general public I think he’s pretty…
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Global Librarian
Rachel at The Liminal Librarian posts about a craigslist Bangalore ad for a telecommuting “highly proficient and experienced researcher.” A while back I thought about applying for a job exchange program in India, and wondered, if I wanted to, would I be able to support my U of C distance students from there? I figured…
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Canadian libraries are doing just fine in the digital age
Nice article from the Globe and Mail about public libraries in Canada: Libraries turn page to thrive in digital age. Basically it talks about how libraries are changing to keep up with different demands; offering services to teens (including the obligatory DDR night), spending more of their budgets on electronic resources. Nothing we librarians don’t…
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BookSwim – NetFlix for Books
Michael Stephens at Tame the Web points to an upcoming service called BookSwim that will launch the 1st quarter of 2007. Basically they’re going to do the NetFlix thing for books – for a subscription fee (amount unknown), you can enter your name in a queue for one of their 80,000 titles and they’ll ship…
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Embedding Flash in a wiki
Chad at Library Voice posts about an extension for MediaWiki that allows Flash to be embedded. He was originally looking for a way to embed a MeeboMe widget, but after I asked he determined that it could just as easily be used to embed a screencast. Cool, thanks Chad! Technorati Tags: Flash, MediaWiki, Screencasts