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Thomas Brevik on iPad

Thomas and I have worked together at Internet Librarian International 2008 and back in the day doing a podcast or two about Library 2.0. He’s one of the good thinkers in LIS who I wish I had more of a chance to sit with and talk. Glad to see his take on the iPad this [...]

LIS768 Group Projects Day 2

The New Digital Divide

This group explored the New Digital Divide.

The New Digital Divide

View more presentations from newdigitaldivide.

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

Hyperlocal Libraries

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

Mobile Librarianship

Presentation at Google

Handout

Video:

Mobile Devices & Libraries Experts Speak at ALA

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6670421.html

Libraries had better prepare for an explosion in the capacity of mobile devices as well as the transformative increase in user capacity and expectations. This was the message conveyed by a panel yesterday at the [...]

OCPL iPhone & iPod Touch App

Via the Lone Wolf Librarian:

The Cell Phone Police

Don’t miss Dominican GSLIS Alum Leah White’s article in LJ:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6652439.html

So what do the survey results tell us? “A good rule of thumb: if you wouldn’t stop a face-to-face conversation between patrons, then you have no justification for stopping a technology-mediated conversation,” observed one library worker. “If you would stop a face-to-face conversation (e.g., in a [...]

Pew: The Mobile Difference

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/5-The-Mobile-Difference–Typology.aspx

8% of adults use mobile devices and broadband platforms for continual information exchange to collaborate with their social networks
7% of adults actively use mobile devices and social networking tool, yet are ambivalent about all the connectivity
8% of Americans find mobility lighting their information pathways, but have comparatively few tech assets at home
16% of adults are [...]

DCPL iPhone Application

Run don’t walk to checkout the new DCPL IPhone App for the catalog:

http://www.walkingpaper.org/1100

Aaron writes:

 

  

Hurrah for alternative OPAC interfaces! I’m very pleased to let you know that the DCPL iPhone app went live last night. You can download it from the iTunes app store here. Functionality in this version includes:

searching for library materials
seeing an item’s cover and [...]

iPhone App Review: Charlie for Flickr

     

Charlie for Flickr, originally uploaded by mstephens7.
When the App store launched, I tried the Flickr apps available – including one or two that I purchased. But recently I’ve been using Charlie, a new app developed by Graham Savage, for my Flickr surfing/commenting. The app is available in the store for $2.99:
Disclaimer: I beta tested Charlie [...]

Adam Reads

My good friend Adam sent this.

Twinkle: More on Localization

I’ve been testing Twinkle… it too does things with the localization features of the iPhone 2.0 software. I’ve discovered Twitter folk near me in Mishawaka…but sadly Spider Lake is devoid of Twitterers right now.

This is fun, a little silly, but also a serious: what will localization do for us in the coming years?