Posted in Humor, Libraries, Tv / Video on Thursday, April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
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!
Posted in Academic, Clever, Gaming, Libraries on Monday, February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Learning, Libraries, Solutions on Sunday, February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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 Digital, Libraries, Word soup, tagged WDL on Thursday, January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Eh?, Libraries, Studies on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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 Cataloging, Humor, Libraries, Technical services on Sunday, July 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I found this hilarious opus via the lower east side librarian:
Great Moments in the History of Technical Services
