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LiB on Music in Libraries – “we’re doing it wrong”

http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2010/09/music-in-libraries-were-doing-it-wrong.html

I’ve been meaning to post a link to this incredible post by the Librarian in Black. I’ll be using it in my classes from now on as a perfect overview of what’s happening with downloadable music in libraries. If you haven’t read it, be sure to do so and don’t miss the comments. For [...]

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

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OCPL iPhone & iPod Touch App

Via the Lone Wolf Librarian:

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 [...]

How to Manage Your iPod Class

Rick Roche writes:

I had several surprises:

I expected audiobooks to be a primary interest with the group because we promote iPod books that we circulate from the reference desk. Music, however, was the primary interest of this group. Only a couple had borrowed our iPods for the audiobooks. Several did express interest in [...]

Are iPod Banning Schools Cheating Our Kids?

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9018594

So many college students I’ve met — even at some of the nation’s top universities — are there because they have an aptitude for memorization. Many straight-A high school students have few interests, little curiosity and zero inclination toward intellectual discovery. Our system rewards the memorizers and punishes the creative thinkers.

 

An iPod, [...]

NCSU Learning Commons

NCSU Learning Commons Originally uploaded by mstephens7

There’s just so much good here! Take a look at North Carolina State’s Learning Commons Web presence:

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/learningcommons/

Live computer availability Web cam of “The Brickyard” Flickr photos “We want your Ideas” for eboards Commenting form Borrow laptops, cameras, iPods, GPS units, etc

I’m incorporating this and [...]

Testing iTunes Widget

I got the fever

I got the fever Originally uploaded by mstephens7