Category: Ideas
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Audio – Google: Catalyst for Digitization? Or Library Destruction?
Here’s the audio (mp3) of the Wednesday morning keynote at Internet Librarian 2005, in which Rich Wiggins and Roy Tennant debate the merits and perils of Google. Posted with permission of the presenters.
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Social Computing for the Information Professional – Liz Lawley
Here’s the audio for Liz Lawley’s Tuesday AM Keynote at Internet Librarian 2005. This one one where she was going too quickly for me to take notes, so I just sat back and listened (and you can too, as here’s the audio of the talk – 44 minutes mp3). I’m back on my home machine…
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Google-brary- The Status Quo of Tomorrow’s MegaLibrary
Last night’s panel discussion was, for me, worth the trip to California all by itself. Expertely moderated by Stephen Abram, the panel consisted of Mark Sandler, University of Michigan, Rich Wiggins, Michigan State University, Steve Arnold, Arnold Information Technology, Roy Tennant, User Services Architect with the California Digital Library, Adam Smith, Senior Business Product Manager…
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Lee Rainie – Pew Internet and American Life Project
Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project delivered the opening keynote for Internet Librarian on Monday morning. You can find coverage of his comments in lots of places so I won’t add to those here (I really enjoyed his talk though). What you will find here is a 46 minute mp3 of…
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Mobile Learning – where will it take us?
Steve Shafer is the the Library Director at Athabasca University in Alberta, and his presentation is one of the few here at Internet Librarian that specifically mention distance education, so of course I had to attend and blog that one for y’all. Steve started with some background on Athabasca, but then eventually got in to…
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Another idea for video iPod and libraries
Brian and I have been corresponding today and he’s gone off on a related tangent for ways libraries can get themselves on the new video iPods. I like it! (of course now he’s tipped his hand, and even if it is edgy someone will figure out it’s all carefully crafted 😉 Link: The Sisyphus Stone.
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Screencasts on the new iPod?
OK, disclaimer here, I’m not suggesting anyone use the tools mentioned in this post to break any laws. As many of you know, Apple unveiled a new iPod yesterday that can play video. Apparently all the cool (rich) kids will have one. Unfortunately I won’t, so I can’t test any of this out. If all…
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Google formally declares war on Microsoft
The Centered Librarian has an interesting post – Google formally declares war on Microsoft GOOGLE HAS confirmed that it will launch free spreadsheet and word-processing software online and take on Microsoft in one of its biggest markets. Under the deal, Google will allow web users to access Sun’s OpenOffice from a toolbar. More at the…
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CaptivatePlayer: Delivering Captivate Content on the Web
Hey, check this out! Greg Szczyrbak, one of the first people I knew who jumped on the Captivate bandwagon, pointed me to CaptivatePlayer: Delivering Captivate Content on the Web. Basically it’s a menu wrapper for Captivate Flash files- a simple way to organize and make them available to the end user. Looks pretty straightforward in…
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PROWE – Personal Repositories Online: WIKI Environment
Richard, of Science Library Pad, pointed me towards PROWE, Personal Repositories Online: WIKI Environment. This initiative was just launched by JISC in the UK, and while there’s nothing to see there yet, the project description sounds like something distance librarians would want to participate in. I won’t reproduce the whole description here, but here’s the…