Posted in Links, Reading, tagged literacy on Thursday, January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Book Aid International is a “very worthy charity” according to the Internet Resources Newsletter staff (for issue #158, Jan 2008):
“Book Aid International promotes literacy in developing countries by creating reading and learning opportunities for disadvantaged people, in order to help them realise their potential, and eradicate poverty.”
When I came across this charity, I realized that [...]
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Posted in Copyright, Links on Friday, January 4, 2008 | No Comments »
‘brary web diva conducted a survey on librarians’ views about their knowledge on copyright. Interesting results. I feel rather silly, but it reallt didn’t occur to me before that in addition to the public copiers, the public scanners and computers with disc drives or USB ports should carry a copyright notice posted near them. (D’oh!) [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Links, Web 2.0 on Friday, November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been too busy to blog for working on my seminar research and paper, internship, and volunteer library project for the American-Sscandinavian Foundation. At the end of the day, my energy goes to rewinding so I can eventually finish the paper. Here’s an attempt to keep up, though.
A Drive: online storage (first 50 GB are [...]
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iLibrarian has made three winderful pages of Firefox add-ons that are useful for librarians. I learned more than I anticipated. (Did you know there are 250 downloadable Firefox themes?) Part three isn’t perhaps as diverse as one and two, but all are worth a look.
40 Useful Firefox Add-ons for Librarians Part 1, Part 2 and [...]
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Posted in Links, Solutions, Tech, Usability, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Via LibrarianInBlack:
The Festsite Party Printer website allows you to print out text in waves, spiral, or heart shape, for instance. Straightforward and nifty.
The Web Video Cheat Sheet lists a multitude of video sharing sites and their features.
There’s also a list of portable freeware for software that you can carry around on your flash drive. (Remember [...]
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