The Treasures in Full (by the British Library) provides high-quality digital editions of Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern manuscripts for free:
“Examine every page of rare historic works; compare different editions side-by-side; choose standard or magnified view; read supporting material by our curators and other experts.”
The works include Shakespeare, Chaucer, Gutenberg’s Bible, and the Magna Charta, [...]
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Digital treasures from the British Library
Posted in Digital, Images, Libraries, Links on Monday, November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Get thee to a library, Elmo!
Posted in Humor, Libraries, Tv / Video on Friday, June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hamlet with a library twist (Sesame Street / Monsterpiece Theatre):
[video ca. 5 min]
National Library Week
Posted in Humor, Libraries, Tv / Video on Thursday, April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ALA has uploaded a series of humorous National Library Week videos to YouTube.
My favorite is the National Library Week: College Reference Desk
[video ca. 2 min]
It’s not too late to enjoy!
Geocaching at Notre Dame libraries
Posted in Academic, Clever, Gaming, Libraries on Monday, February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Notre Dame libraries have an innovative program to introduce first-year students to the various campus libraries: Caching in @ the Libraries.
“All First Year students are eligible to compete for iPod Shuffles, ND t-shirts, and other prizes. Have fun while getting to know your way around the campus, find out about library services, and meet [...]
Info literacy resource from UK
Posted in Learning, Libraries, Solutions on Sunday, February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching (HILT), by subject librarians at Cardiff University. Free under a creative commons license, and available both as Word and pdf.
“This Handbook was written by a group of subject librarians at Cardiff University to support their colleagues in Information Services as they developed their information literacy teaching.”
“We are happy for you [...]
LC Flickr followup
Posted in Images, Libraries, Library 2.0 on Saturday, January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
LC / Flickr once more
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 [...]
Library of Congress goes Flickr!
Posted in Images, Libraries, Library 2.0 on Thursday, January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
World Digital Library
Posted in Digital, Libraries, Word soup, tagged WDL on Thursday, January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Library of Congress and UNESCO project World Digital Library (WDL) is on its way.
“The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant [...]
Deep thoughts (for grocery trip)
Posted in Eh?, Libraries, Studies on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While walking to the grocery store today, I was musing on the point of undergraduate education (I can only speak for humanities, though). My conclusion: it’s all about analysis. Sure, there’s learning about the history of the Western civilization, considering the wider issues, and expanding your knowledge of the world. But the assignments and discussions [...]
