Category: Miscellaneous
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“Agnes’ Library!” By Dr. Steve & Fidgert
While driving the kids to school this AM we came across this most excellent episode in one of our podcasts. “Agnes’ Library!” By Dr. Steve & Fidgert. You MUST go give it a listen now.
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Baker & Taylor Acquires Blackwell North America and James Bennett
A little news from the world of Collection Development and Acquisitions – just received word that Baker & Taylor (YBP) has acquired BNA! Also as part of the deal, Blackwell U.K. will acquire Baker & Taylor’s Lindsay and Croft business in the U.K. Full press release.
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Behind the scenes with IT at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics
Earlier this week a vendor flew a few folks involved with IT for the Taylor Family Digital Library out to Vancouver to see some cutting edge stuff. One of the stops was the Headquarters of the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) where we spent about a half hour with the VP for IT, about 40…
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You think newspapers have it bad?
The other week I pointed to a graphic showing newspaper circulation over the last two decades. Stephen Abram has uncovered a similar graphic showing circulation revenue for a few of the big general news magazines. Theme song: Free Falling, by Tom Petty.
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Guest Post – What’s in a (SLA) name?
This is a guest post written by two librarians at the U of Calgary about the proposed name change for the Special Libraries Association. In November the membership will be voting whether to change the name of their organization to ASKPro (Association of Strategic Knowledge Professionals). I have no stake in the matter, but Justine…
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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
An emerging list of the top 100 tools for learning in 2009, as picked by 202 learning professionals (and possibly you!). Pleased to note that I was aware of 87 of them, with most of the new-to-me ones being related to animation and course authoring systems. I found it particularly interesting to note the changes…
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Support a publishing innovator by watching TV
I’ve mentioned MCM before. He’s the author of The Pig and the Box, and a true innovator in the world of independent publishing. I’ve been fascinated reading his blog posts over the past year as he explores one interesting idea after another for publishing via crowd sourcing, PDF, print, epub, donations, sponsorship, releasing work under…
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JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT)
I recently learned through a colleague of this wonderful database comparison tool from JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in the UK – the Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT). “This site from JISC Collections aims to help libraries to make informed decisions about future subscriptions to bibliographic and full text databases.” You can use it to…
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RenewBot vs Library Elf
Fight! (I looked, but couldn't find a picture of a robot fighting an elf) I just discovered RenewBot, which will automatically renew your library books X # of days before they come due, where X is set by you. First two months are free, then if you want to continue it'll cost $2.99 per year…