Posted in Academic, Links, Solutions on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ACRL’s toolkit for scholarly communication is updated! They want to
provide an educational resource
offer tools and practical resources, and
construct a repository which encourages sharing and reusing content.
Check out especially the links on the Websites page: author’s rights, open access, general sites [...]
Posted in Searching, Solutions on Thursday, January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year!
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but it’s a good time to tidy up for the year ahead. Continuing my clean-up project, I came across another old kept-mailbox find: the Visual Thesaurus. This is certainly a less annoying search tool than Ms. Dewey. It displays results as a web of related terms.
You can [...]
Posted in Images, Links, Solutions, Usability on Monday, December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have a few friends and relatives who are color blind. I recently stumbled onto the Colorblind Web Page Filter and wanted a test run. Here’s what the Level1librarian rainbow book shelf looks like through the red-green filter:
Quite a difference! Reminds me that it’s better never to rely on color difference alone on your signage [...]
Posted in Digital, Library 2.0, Links, Solutions, Tech on Friday, November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Europeana (which I mentioned in February), a portal for European cultural heritage, was opened yesterday. The service proved immensely popular from the start – 10 million visitors per hour – which crashed their servers. I will go and have a look later, though. It seems well worth the wait.
Posted in Future, Library 2.0, Reference, Service, Solutions on Friday, November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In his article Brave New World: Reference Librarians in the Age of Google Jacob Dagger explores some directions that reference service might take. It’s worth a read, but the juiciest bit is this:
“Despite the success of Duke’s virtual reference services, he [Tom Wall, associate university librarian for public services] says he does not see them [...]
Posted in Learning, Solutions, Tech, tagged maps on Monday, September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Map of Early Modern London tracks
“…the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London. You will see many of the theatres and landmarks of Shakespeare’s time, and learn about the history and culture of the city in which he lived and worked.”
The site is administered and maintained by Dr. Janelle [...]
Posted in Future, Publishing, Solutions, Web 2.0 on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The opinion piece It’s the End of Publishing as We Know It by Anders Bylund mentions an online magazine sharing site that resembles (illegal) file-sharing services. The point, however, is this:
“If Mygazines teaches Time anything, it would be how to present the print magazine in a tasty online form, easy to navigate and easy [...]
Posted in Service, Solutions, Tech on Monday, June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
9 Firefox extensions to protect your privacy by Mike Gunderloy describes a few extensions designed to help protect your privacy when surfing online. Mostly they deal with controlling your cookies and masking your own IP address with proxy surfing:
“In light of the continuing brouhaha over online privacy … it’s worth asking the simple question: what can [...]
Posted in Blogging, Clever, Links, Publishing, Solutions, Web 2.0 on Saturday, April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few links on how to improve ur Internets:
14 “Other” Ways to Use RSS Feeds from makeuseof.com lists less talked about services like sending any RSS updates to your email and converting news feeds to speech.
10 Smart Hacks for Google Reader from Lifehack. Via LibrarianInBlack. [...]
Posted in Blogging, People, Solutions, tagged introverts on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Guide For The Introverted Blogger by Micah Sparacio. The first in series of entries about introvert-specific blogging – unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this promise remains unfulfilled after more than a year. The gold nugget among the slightly unpolished entry is this:
“Introverts usually bring a long term vision to their blogging. They [...]
