Posted in Future, Library 2.0, Service, Tech on Sunday, April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a few months old now, but exciting nevertheless: the cell phone company Nokia along with the University of Cambridge (UK) have come up with a pliable cell phone. The Nokia Morph nanotechnology model is still in the concept stage, and, according to the LetsGoDigital article, it shows that nanotechnology might be able to [...]
Posted in Future, Library 2.0, Solutions on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
A report in Campus Technology recaps the 2008 Horizon Report [pdf] of six key technology areas that will likely have a major influence on education:
“Mobile broadband, collaborative Web technologies, and mashups will all significantly impact education over the next five years, along with “grassroots” video, collective intelligence, and “social operating systems.””
Via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian.
Many [...]
Posted in Clever, Library 2.0, Solutions, tagged maps on Monday, February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OCLC has put together an interesting prototype of a map for looking up facts on international library holdings and more:
“The OCLC WorldMap allows users to select countries of interest, then to compare various library and cultural heritage data by country.
WorldMap will generate interactive graphs that compare several different kinds of data for up to four [...]
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 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 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 Conferences, Future, Library 2.0, Tech, Web 2.0 on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
LibrarianInBlack links to the handy guide for conference bloggers by Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani. (I certainly could’ve used this at the IL2007!)
Ten things that will change your future lists technologies that are likely to be influential. I was aware of the Seti@home project, microblogging (Twitter, Jaiku etc.), and One laptop per child; the others [...]
Posted in Academic, Library 2.0, Studies on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been too busy to blog for wrapping up the semester. However, last night was the final meeting of my Seminar & Practicum group. My classwork is officially over! All that remains is to apply for graduation. I hope that will be in February.
The link of the day: ACRL NY Social Software in Academic Libraries [...]
