Posted in Clever, Humor, Signage on Sunday, October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I like how the sign at Tamworth library (Tamworth, NH) addresses possible patron concerns about privacy before they have the chance to ask. And the placement is absolutely ingenious – in the bathroom!
Via The Shifted Librarian.
Posted in Clever, Solutions, Tech on Sunday, October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
A most impressive touch-screen demo [video] – look mom, no gloves! An article on the same: Can’t Touch This.
The first applications that came to mind were mapping (obvious, on the basis of what was shown) – or locating places in general – browsing a library catalog, and editing publications. All have value for librarians. Can [...]
Posted in Clever, Language, Solutions, Word soup, tagged dictionaries on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Carolyn J. Sosnowski’s tips, Info Sites, in Information Outlook are always helpful. A recent find through her is OneLook Reverse Dictionary. Fab!
Posted in Clever, Digital rights, Images, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
The Wikimedia Commons site offers loads and loads of pictures, for free. Or, as they put it, it “provides a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts” (quote from the Welcome page). What an exciting resource for educators! Be sure to check the usage [...]
Posted in Clever, Digital rights, Libraries, Solutions, Tech, Word soup on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Via LibrarianInBlack:
“eMusic has started offering over a thousand downloadable audio books without digital rights management. Available in plain MP3 format, you don’t have to deal with any specific software, or digital rights management restrictions. (… 
Hint to Library-world downloadable media vendors: Follow my logic here. We and our users have problems with [...]
Posted in Clever, Searching on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Via lo-fi librarian:
oSkope provides an interesting version of a visual search engine. I like how your results are displayed; a highly personal matter, I’m sure. I also agree with lo-fi librarian: it would be useful to be able to search more than one site at once.
But why, oh why, does the Amazon search engine suck [...]
Posted in Academic, Clever, Humor, People, Studies on Thursday, July 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Tuesday in Communication class we were talking about marketing. This is an area that I know very little about. However, there is clearly something to be said for being creative, and for going where the people are. A sample of things I found are below.
The Ursinus College Library (Collegeville, PA) has posted great pictures [...]
Posted in Clever, Reading, Storage, Usability on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m not a big friend of modern design, but with these two characters I might not mind it (found via librarian.net):
Bookinist – a chair for reading, thinking, moving. Notice the lamp!
Bibliochaise – store your reading literally under your seat!
