Posted in Blogging, Images, Language, Reference on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
BlewSpace offers a nice, visual way to locate bloggers.
Via LibrarianInBlack.
The Europa Polyglotta map, published in mid-1700s, tries a completely different kind and even more fascinating mapping (for us linguists, at any rate):
“to show the concordances and differences between all the languages spoken in Europe by spelling out the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted in Images, Libraries, Library 2.0 on Thursday, January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
From the LC blog:
“Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist.
The real magic [...]
Posted in Images on Friday, November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Oh, had we only know about this picture of the book anatomy at the beginning of our cataloging class.
(Embed doesn’t work; you’ll just have to follow the link.)
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 Images, Library 2.0, Reading on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 | No Comments »
The Illinois State University, Milner Library has created and uploaded to Flickr a series of interesting READ Posters. In addition to this great variety, make sure to look at their other sets of photos. Seems like a very active library!
Posted in Images, Travel on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I ran into three applications that allow you to edit your images online: flickrCC, Preloadr, and Picnik. Haven’t tried any yet, but they offer pretty exciting possibilities for those on the move.
Edit: Found another one though lo-fi librarian: myImager.
