Monthly Archives: June 2007

Library 2.0 : Brian Mathews – Social Computing

Brian Mathews – Social Computing When do we reach Library 2.0? No final destination; no “library 2.0” finishing point: it’s an evolving picture. Sisyphus analogy: it’s not what you do when rolling the rock up the hill, it’s what you … Continue reading

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Library 2.0 : Chad Boeninger – Wikis in Libraries

Chad Boeninger – Wikis in Libraries : Enhancing Services, Promoting Sources, and Building Community (Powerpoint) Chad started off with a show of hands – what type of librarian’s were in the audience, including media specialists. He went on to define … Continue reading

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Library 2.0 : Steven Bell – It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Web 2.0 World

Steven Bell – It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Web 2.0 World : Hidden Treasure or Just More Pressure? (Powerpoint) (Handout) The title is adapted from It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, the “epic comedy” film from 1963. He … Continue reading

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Library 2.0 Seminar

I am attending (not presenting, though) Ohio State University’s Library 2.0 Seminar, being held yesterday and today on the OSU campus. I am taking lots of notes, and plan to at least outline each of the sessions here. The speakers … Continue reading

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Michael Gorman’s Sleep of Reason

Michael Gorman, former president of ALA, has riled up some people with his posts on Britannica Blog titled Web 2.0 : The Sleep of Reason (part I) and (part II). He makes some excellent points about scholarship and the perils … Continue reading

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Public Libraries ROI

A newly released study, Taxpayer Return-on-Investment (ROI) in Pennsylvania Public Libraries (Pdf), comes to an interesting and positive conclusion:  for every $10 of tax money invested in public libraries, the Pennsylvania taxpayers receive a return of $55. found on ResourceShelf

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Getting Change to Stick

A post, Getting change to stick, at Karen Coomb’s blog, has me thinking about change and growth, but not in an institutional sense, but in more of a personal sense. I think people can fall into the same trap:  we … Continue reading

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Open Courseware at MIT

There is a great overview of the history and current status of the Open CourseWare (OCW) project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Of interest is the discussion on why to spend millions of dollars to provide free access to … Continue reading

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Chinese Learning Objects

Chinese Learning Objects, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and provided by the National Foreign Language Center, are online materials for learning to read Chinese.  The good news is that, starting in July 2007, the materials will be available for … Continue reading

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Space Shuttle STS-117 Links

There is a great collection of links about the current shuttle mission on ResourceShelf.  I had intended to post this on Friday, before the launch, but better late than never. FYI, spotting the shuttle in orbit is a neat experience … Continue reading

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Google Book Search and Copyright

A blog post by Richard Charkin, Chairman of Macmillan UK, about he and a colleague “stealing” a couple of computers from the Google booth at BookExpo in order to make a point about Google’s placing snippets of books online makes … Continue reading

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Big Google Book Search Library Project Announcement

Big news from the Google Book Search Library Project today: The number of libraries participating in the Google Book Search Library Project just got a whole lot bigger with today’s addition of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). The CIC … Continue reading

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FOB : Firms Out of Business

FOB : Firms Out of Business is a database of publishing companies that are no longer in business.  Why this type of database?  The results screen provides information in tracking down copyright holders, useful for when you are attempting to … Continue reading

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Roy Tenant at OCLC

Roy Tenant, formerly of the California Digital Library has been working for OCLC’s RLG Programs division for the past few weeks, and has posted his impressions on the hangingtogether blog.  It is well worth reading, and especially to note that … Continue reading

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ALA In Focus

The first segment of “ALA In Focus”, an online video detailing the inner workings of various areas of the American Library Association, features Gwendolyn Prellwitz, Program Officer for the ALA Office of Diversity & Spectrum. The video is fantastic to … Continue reading

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Google’s Algorithms and the Library Quest

Jonathan Rochkind has an interesting commentary on this New York Times article about Google’s Algorithm titled Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine. I really don’t have much to add, except for the thought that we are too mired in the … Continue reading

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Follow-up: Elsevier and the arms business

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about the publishing company Reed Elsevier and their involvement in the world arms trade. Editors and writers from several of their journals, including The Lancet, were arguing that it was unethical … Continue reading

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