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The New Digital Divide

This group explored the New Digital Divide.

The New Digital Divide

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Their project blog: http://classes.tametheweb.com/newdigitaldivide/

Hyperlocal Libraries

http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcg5kv2v_11cq59zkcw

Mobile Librarianship

Presentation at Google

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Fun with SMS!

Brandweek is saying that advertisements sent via SMS text are becoming a normal sighting among cell-phone users (38% of users recalled seeing them in the past few months).  What really aggravated surprised me was the response to what could be viewed as an intrusive form of advertising:

Perhaps most encouraging for advertisers, says the [...]

Revisiting Ten Things to Stay Tech Current

I’m prepping classes and presentations right now and my eyes fell on this OLD link from walkingpaper:

http://www.walkingpaper.org/106

Aaron lists some things libraries can do to improve techie stuff. How many have you done? How far have we come?

Here’s just a few of his ideas:

3. Have CD burning available for patrons at [...]

IM – A New Language

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/ksu-ima050108.php#

OMG! LOL. TTYL. For many adults over the age of 30, the former groupings of letters would seem incoherent, but for a newer generation of technologically-savvy young adults it can say a lot.

“Instant messaging, or IM, is not just bad grammar or a bunch of mistakes,” says Dr. Pamela Takayoshi, Kent State [...]

Txt a Librarian

As instant message reference freed patrons from having to come to the library, text messaging reference frees them from their desks or laptops. Yale Science Librarians offer a text messaging reference service to meet this preference for mobility: patrons can text a librarian from study halls, classes, laboratories, dorms, offices, or even from [...]

Put Virtual Reference in the User’s Pocket

Some say that IM is on the verge of extinction and that forging into such territory for virtual reference so late in the game is a waste of a library’s energy. You can surely count me as one of those who agrees with that statement. I predict, as do many others, that virtual [...]

Virtual Reference Business Card

Virtual Reference business card Originally uploaded by Joey Digits

Text message reference marketed via a business card. Joey – please let us know how it goes.

Promoting the SJCPL AV Department IM Address

Click for Full Size! Make your own

IM = FASTER Virtual Reference on the Cheap!

Remember the wave of virtual reference talk a few years back? Remember how virtual reference services were supposed to change the very foundations of what we do? Remember how some librarians discovered that those systems required users to navigate into a slowly loading chat queue inside their browsers so you could send, or [...]

Some IM & Meebo Links

Dutch students protest via IM and text:

http://www.smartmobs.com/2007/11/27/dutch-student-protests-organized-via-instant-messaging/

Dutch high school students have been “on strike” this week, protesting against extra school hours. Students spread word to join protests on Friday and Monday using online and mobile phone text messages.

Meebo embedded in the library catalog:

http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/11/30/fun-with-our-meebo-widget-and-the-library-catalog/

We added a Meebo widget to unsuccessful [...]