Posted in Cataloging, Museums, Tech on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Heidi Hoerman has put up a wonderful site of old library technology:
“Within these pages can be seen the transition and differences from one method or tool to the next. This virtual museum is for the new generation of librarians who may not be familiar with the tools and methods used before technology and the digitization [...]
Posted in Academic, Eh?, Service, Tech on Friday, November 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey apparently requires students to buy a cell phone from a specific carrier for security reasons.
At first I thought it was a joke. But no: the MSU Campus Connect Help Center has information and FAQs about the program. My husband, who’s teaching at MSU this fall and next spring, [...]
Posted in Future, Reading, Tech on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Newsweek reports on the latests electronic reader, the Amazon Kindle. The device has some tempting features: you can search the text and change the font size. It holds about 200 books, more if you get a memory card. It connects to the store: browsing, and reading and posting reviews can be done without a computer. [...]
Posted in Library 2.0, Links, Service, Solutions, Tech, Web 2.0 on Saturday, November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Cataloging, Future, Tech, tagged LC draft on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I was looking forward to the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control presenting their draft report. Unfortunately, it’s not available yet:
November 14, 2007
Due to unprecedented demand for the live Webcast of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, some of you were unable to view the broadcast in its [...]
Posted in Conferences, Gaming, Tech, Word soup, tagged IL2007 on Sunday, November 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I started the day with Mashups & Data Visualizations: New Breed of Web Applications by Darlene Fichter. Impressive stuff. Then I had a really tough choice again: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0, or World of Warcraft vs. Second Life. I’ve been interested in SL for a while, so that tipped the scale. (I do [...]
Posted in Clever, Solutions, Tech on Sunday, October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
A most impressive touch-screen demo [video] – look mom, no gloves! An article on the same: Can’t Touch This.
The first applications that came to mind were mapping (obvious, on the basis of what was shown) – or locating places in general – browsing a library catalog, and editing publications. All have value for librarians. Can [...]
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 Tech on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s been too long since I wrote anything here. A lot has been going on. My internship is going great, and I’m enjoying it immensely! I even got to try original cataloging on 14 of the Bank Street College theses. Both my parents and parents-in-law are moving within a year (one pair even twice!), and [...]
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 [...]
