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Web 2.0 & Libraries Parts 1 & 2 Available Free on Hyperlinked Library Site

I am happy to announce the full text of both of my ALA Library Technology Reports are available now at the new TTW companion site The Hyperlinked Library.

The rest of the site is currently under construction, but for now you’ll find:

Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software (2006) - http://thehyperlinkedlibrary.org/libtechreport1/

Web 2.0 [...]

Library Building Trading Cards?

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/kbosch/2008/09/21/national-park-trading-cards

Recently my sixth grade students have been working on a research project about our National Parks. One of their project choices was making a National Park trading card based on their research using this site:

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php

I had a few directions written down for the students and they had no problems doing this without [...]

TTW Mailbox: Flickr Research Down Under

Dear Michael,   Leanne Perry and I want to find out how public libraries world wide are really using Flickr and were wondering if you would help up publicise our research so that we have as many public libraries responding as possible.  We are very happy to make the results available widely as well.   [...]

Flickr & Libraries: A Response

Remember the Flickr & Libraries post? Here’s a great respoonse from a library director:

My point is that we have so much legalese that comes in that it cripples a library’s ability to operate in this way. You can’t put people’s picture on flickr because of their rights (even though they don’t care). It’s no [...]

Flickr & Libraries: Directors? Managers? What do you think?

I’ve heard from a couple of directors about the legal issues of Flickr article:

http://tametheweb.com/2008/09/18/legally-should-libraries-not-be-using-flickr/

I thought it would be cool to do a “The Directors & Managers Respond…” piece. Please send your thoughts and I’ll share them via a blog post.

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Teen Team 2008

Teen Team 2008, originally uploaded by mclib dot net.

 

Legally, should Libraries NOT be Using Flickr?

 

Inside by the Fire courtesy of Lester Public Library

That’s Gil. He’s enjoying the newspaper and the fire at Lester Public Library. The cliché says a picture is worth a thousand words but I must agree that the story this picture tells about what patrons will find [...]

Video Games on Tour @ the Library

!, originally uploaded by capemaycountylibrary.

Justin Hoenke writes:

I’m the teen librarian at the Cape May County Library here in Cape May Court House, NJ.

I put together a “video games on tour at the library” event at our library that’s going on this week and so far it’s been really successful. [...]

Summer Reading – My READ Poster

From Spider Lake, just three of the books I devoured this summer. Thanks ALA!

Please make your own and put it on Flickr. I can’t wait to see everyone’s choices…

Via Jenny:

One of the fun projects I’ve gotten to shepherd at work is now available for you to play with – the READ Mini [...]

More Flickr Partners

Via Open Access News:

New partners for Flickr Commons

The George Eastman House and the Bibliothèque de Toulouse have joined Flickr Commons and will provide OA to some of their images there. (Thanks to Boing Boing.)

The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian is also providing access to part of its collection on Flickr, though not as part of Flickr’s The Commons project. The [...]