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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Education
MathTV
MathTV is a collection of video tutorials, ranging from basic mathematical concepts to complex calculus applications, meant to assist students by providing a demonstration of how to work a type of problem. This is a great resource for anyone needing … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Services, Tutorials, Video
Tagged algebra, calculus, calculus applications, Education, mathematics, MathTV, Online Services, trigonometry, Tutorials, Video
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Print vs. Electronic
Notes from last month’s OLE (Open Library Environment) Regional Workshop are on LibShare, and they are interesting to scan through, especially the comments. I found this through the Disruptive Library Technology Jester blog, and looked into it because of two … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Conferences, Education, Libraries, Library 2.0, Training
Tagged OLE, Open Library Environment
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May You Live in Interesting Financial Times
If you have been concerned about the possible effects of the global financial crisis on libraries, you aren’t alone. The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) has issued a statement that is not only short, succinct, and dire, but also … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Groups, Libraries, Licensing, News, Online Databases, Online Services
Tagged consortia, Illinois, International Coalition of Library Consortia, Libraries, library consortia, Ohio, Online Databases, Online Services
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Does a Degree a Librarian Make?
The debate has been going on for years, and has recently flared up again on PUBLIB : Does a person need the MLIS degree to do the work of a librarian? LISNews has decided to take a poll (and encourage … Continue reading
Social Networks and College Students
The 2008 ECAR (EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research) survey has been released, and they have added a section on social networking (pdf version of chapter here). Among the findings: Slightly over 85% of those surveyed use social networks, with Facebook … Continue reading
Annenberg Media Streaming Video
The Annenberg Media website at learner.org is a resource that offers on-demand streaming video for “schools, colleges, libraries, public broadcasting stations, public access channels, and other community agencies”. These are top-notch programs, several which I recognize as having been used … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Language, Libraries, Online Services, Politics, Science, Video, Web Design
Tagged Annenberg Media, Education, History, Libraries, Microsoft Windows, streaming video
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Open Access and Undergraduate Research
A great, thought-provoking post on the OpenStudents blog : Open Access meets Undergrad Research… Please? If I were to be researching a paper on a topic that has a strong open access presence (and the easiest way to see these … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Copyright, Education, Libraries, Open Access
Tagged instructor, live web connection
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Free Online Courses from Great Universities
Free Online Courses from Great Universities is a collection of lecture podcasts organized by topic; organized by Open Culture. found via Open Access News
Posted in Audio, Education, Lecture, Podcast
Tagged Online Courses
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Free-Reading
Free-Reading is “an ‘open-source’ instructional program that helps teachers teach early reading.” Aimed at Kindergarten/First Grade learners, it is a collaborative means to establish an education program that combines the strengths of those who work on the project, and makes … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Education, Government, Open Access, Publishing, Wiki
Tagged Florida, reading
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Take a Seat
An interesting video of a graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Enjoy! found on LISNews
Zotero Commons
Kind of an interesting application of the Zotero add-on for Firefox : the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (no relation 😉 ) and the Internet Archive are working to create a storage for scholarly annotation … Continue reading
MIT OpenCourseWare goes to High School
MIT has expanded their OpenCourseWare initiative to include science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for high school students. Dubbed Highlights for High School (a name that, for me at least, evokes Highlights magazine), their stated purpose is to “inspire the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Services, Open Access
Tagged High School, MIT
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Copyright Cost Trend
Three items have caught my eye this past week, and they all point in the same direction, even though they each are about something fairly specific: First was an article about a bill working its way through the Ohio General … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Education, Government, Libraries, Open Access, Politics, Publishing
Tagged file sharing, music subscription services, Ohio General Assembly, open access media, the Chronicle of Higher Education;
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WebJunction’s Rural Library Sustainability Online Course
WebJunction has launched a Rural Library Sustainability Online Course, and it’s free! Their site has the following synopsis of the course: Visit each of the seven areas of interest critical to sustaining public access computing in your library. View case … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Services, Training
Tagged Online Course
WebJunction, Online Course
WebJunction, Online Course, public access computing
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Projects and Time Management
No brand new flashy sites in this post; just a small collection of links on how one deals with the demands of time, projects and learning: Big or Small? — Jen Riley at the Indiana University Digital Library Program has … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Education, OCLC, Training
Tagged energy, Indiana University, Jen Riley, Karen Schneider, Roy Tennant
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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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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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