Is it my connection via Comcast or what? I cannot get to flickr! I am having photo withdrawl….
Yearly Archives: 2005
568 posts
I spent some time last night updating my main pages. Take a look. There may be some weirdness as I work out the glitches. I used Rapidweaver for Mac.
Schmidt & Stephens 2005: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA512192
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/154/report_display.asp Once again, Pew jumps right into the Hot Tech fray. Download the report, read it and ponder how you might server your users with audio content. Wouldn’t you like your library to be included on the iPods and other players in your town? The Wikipedia entry on podcasting distinguishes this medium from traditional internet radio because it allows consumers increased flexibility in listening to audio content and because delivery of podcasts can be automated. Before podcasting, internet radio listeners had to tune in to scheduled programs or retroactively search for individual broadcasts to download. Podcasts offer the unique feature […]
Today is the two year anniversary of Tame the Web. Inspired to start blogging by Steven Cohen in March 2003, TTW went live via the iBlog software on April 1, 2003 from the Panera Bread in Mishawaka, Indiana via my laptop. Here’s that first incarnation. And here are ten things I’ve learned in 2 years of being a Blogging Librarian: Ethics and Guidelines Count Ask Karen, she gets it more than any LIS Blogger I know. Not only are we writing and thinking about libraries but we are promoting ourselves, our jobs and the profession. Next time I bump into […]
Top 25 Technological Breakthroughs
http://gpclibraryradio.blogspot.com/ The audio blog from Georgia Perimeter College Libraries that david free has been working on. WOW: two libraries of note launching audio casts so close together… The world spins folks. Is your library ready?
http://walt.lishost.org/ (Via IM w/Steven)
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0523.pdf Lippincott notes: Libraries could use part of their home page to highcell phones, send simple text-message queries to library catalogs or databases, or check library hours via text messaging. Such services might be particularly valuable for students who live off campus. How will we conceive and design these new services? Net Gen Info Services include: Use students on teams that design new services and environments Integrate services into course management systems Explore services for mobile devices Represent services and instruction visually and in multimedia modes Focus on partnership models Emphasize how to evaluate information resources Emphasize information policy issues […]
Take a look: http://www.njlibraries.org/vid.mpeg (Thanks Frances!)