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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Author Archives: Rick Mason
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
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, OSUL2007
Tagged Brian Mathews, campus social computing groups, distance learning, Google, social networks
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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
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, OSUL2007
Tagged Chad Boeninger, Choose software, html, media specialists, Ohio University, php, Scholarly software, Their library
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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
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, OSUL2007, Web Design
Tagged 2.0 technology, American Libraries;, Charles Deering, Charles Deering McCormick University, Chris Anderson, David Bishop, David Lee King, Evanston, find technology, frantic search, Illinois, Instant Messaging, Jim Carroll, librarian, Library 2.0, library director, library tool, Northwestern University, problems needing solutions, staff using technology, Steven Bell, Wired;
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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
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, OSUL2007, Web Design
Tagged Brian Mathews, Chad Boeninger, Eric Schnell, Ken Varnum, Ohio State University, Ohio State University\'s Library, OSU campus, OSU Knowledge Bank, Stephen Abram, Steven Bell, User, Web Services
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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
Posted in Blogs, Open Access
Tagged Alabama, Free Range Librarian, Librarian.net, Michael Gorman, president, Reason
Michael Gorman, Reason
Michael Gorman, web publishers
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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
Posted in Government, Libraries, News, Politics, Statistics
Tagged Pennsylvania, USD
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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
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
Posted in Education, Online Services, Open Access
Tagged Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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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
Posted in Education, Online Services, Training
Tagged National Foreign Language Center, online materials, U.S. Department of Education
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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
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
Posted in Blogs, Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google
Tagged chair, Chairman, Google, Macmillan UK, Richard Charkin, search tool
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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
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, News
Tagged Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Google, Illinois, Indiana University, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State University, Minnesota, Northern Illinois, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, Ryan Eby, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
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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
Posted in Copyright, Online Databases, Search
Tagged copyright owner, United Kingdom, United States
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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
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, OCLC, Online Services
Tagged California Digital Library, Roy Tenant
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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
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, RFS, Video
Tagged ALA Office of Diversity & Spectrum, Alabama, American Library Association, Gwendolyn Prellwitz, John Chrastka, online video, Program Officer, Reaching Forward South, The Shifted Librarian, USD, webmaster
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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
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, New York Times, search engine
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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
Posted in Blogs, Medical, News
Tagged Elsevier, Reed Elsevier
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Border Patrol, Library Style
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has a somewhat unique situation: it straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. Now, according to this article in the Washington Times, the U.S. Border Patrol is cracking down on those who cross the border to … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Maps, News
Tagged Haskell, Library Style The
Haskell Free Library, Library Style The
Haskell Free Library, the Washington Times;, U.S.-Canadian border, United States, Washington Times
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Giving Knowledge for Free
Giving Knowledge for Free : The Emergence of Open Educational Resources (Pdf, 153 pages) is a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)‘s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation which details the state of open access education. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access
Tagged Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, Open Educational Resources, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
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Freebase article on OpenBusiness
Freebase is a new project which I described in a posting last March. OpenBusiness recently ran an interview on their blog with the sites founders. from Open Access News
Posted in Blogs, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design, Wiki
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