Posted in Clever, Gaming, Humor, Tv / Video, Word soup, tagged ACRL, ALA on Thursday, January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
World of Warcraft commercial parody - Belf Librarian from Topeka Library:
“Lysistrata is a Blood Elf Hunter. She is also a librarian. This video is a parody of the popular Mr T. and Shatner commercials”
[video ca. 1.5 min]
I know I’m not the only librarian who plays WoW. Clearly I’m also not the only librarian who enjoys [...]
Posted in Library 2.0, Links, Tv / Video on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve kept an eye out for videos related to library science. There’s beginning to be so much that this Playlist: The best of library 2.0 will definitely be helpful.
Via What I Learned Today.
Posted in Academic, Eh?, Links on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
OER Commons (Open Educational Resources) is a “global teaching and learning network of free-to-use resources – from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware.”
iBerry, the Academic Porthole, claims to offer “Free access to Higher Education (HE) resources and Open Courseware (OCW) from the Universities and Colleges of the world.”
I wish, however, that the iBerry team would [...]
Posted in Searching, Word soup on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Music + Google = Musgle:
“To see Musgle in action just type a song title, or the artist name, or both in a search bar and hit ‘Enter’ - you will be redirected to the Google page with relevant search results. Click on one of those results, and you will have a chance to directly download [...]
Posted in Library 2.0, Solutions, Web 2.0 on Monday, January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Now that I have a brand new Facebook profile, I checked out the Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 by iLibrarian (Ellyssa Kroski). For libraries (and librarians) who want to be where their users are and increase their Facebook appeal, these apps are just the thing.
Via What I Learned [...]
Posted in Publishing on Sunday, January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
An article with 7 Things You Should Know About Lulu – a self-publishing service – is available from Educause Connect.
Via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian.
Posted in Cataloging, Humor, tagged movies on Monday, January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The trailer for AACR2: The Movie is up!
[video ca. 2.5 min]
- Let me ask you something: You ever meet anyone you didn’t catalog?
- I haven’t cataloged you yet.
Fantastic!
Via The Cataloguing Librarian.
Posted in Images, Libraries, Library 2.0 on Saturday, January 19, 2008 | No Comments »
The Library of Congress’s pilot project with Flickr got an overwhelming response:
• 392,000 views on the photostream
• 650,000 views of photos
• Adding in set and collection page views, there were about 1.1 million total views on our account
• All 3,100+ photos have been viewed
• 420 of the photos have comments
• 1,200 of the photos have [...]
Posted in Green, Solutions, tagged SLA on Saturday, January 19, 2008 | No Comments »
“SLA Headquarters has already begun implementing green practices in its day-to-day operations, such as eliminating unnecessary printing of documents and replacing disposable cups and utensils with flatware and ceramic coffee mugs and dinnerware.. Many of the paper products such as paper towels and napkins used at the Alexandria HQ building are now ordered from environmentally [...]
Posted in Images, Libraries, Library 2.0 on Friday, January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A fantastic posting by Jeanne Kramer-Smyth (found via librarian.net) talks about the benefits of tagging:
“Does the tag ‘women at work’ tell you more than the LOC subject heading ‘Women–Employment’? Maybe, maybe not - but if you view all the images tagged ‘women at work’ across Flickr, now you can see these women from the 1940s [...]
