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“It never fails. Every month or so, the astronauts at the International Space Station capture Earth in the most amazing, astonishing, rock-your-socks-off way imaginable. Every time it’s better than the previous one.
Did you wake up fresh today, a new start, a blank slate with resources and opportunities... or is today yet another day of living out the narrative you've been engaged in for years?
Seth's Blog
Librarian in Black
OK, I know this may be forcing you to speculate a bit, but honestly, where do you see the line being drawn for most libraries when it comes to this ridiculous drama over eBooks and publishers, concerning limited copies and accessibility in particular. We really aren’t good at standing up for ourselves but this is getting insane. I looked at our OverDrive account the other day and it was very common to see 100-200 holds on 10-20 eBook copies of a particular title.
For those of you who don't know a live stream is simply a broadcast of some form of media that you watch on the internet live. Often it involves sound and video, but it can be sound on it's own and it's becoming increasingly common for event organisers to provide a live stream option for people who can't get the time off work, can't make it because of distance or simply because they can't afford to attend. In short live streaming your event is a great way for you to reach more people with your message. Nowadays it's easy to live stream with just a smartphone or laptop, an Internet connection and a free web service or app such as Bambuser . However while anyone can point a web cam at something and stream it to the internet, effectively live streaming a conference presentation for example so that people will actually watch it on a computer screen for more than a few minutes is more difficult and requires careful planning and preparation.
Information & Advice Blog
Phil Bradley describes Pinterest, a bookmarking service for images; Joy Cadwaller tracks down new online publications and services from JSTOR, JISC, the British Library and explains what the National Library of Wales means by "sestudes...
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I've written before about Pinterest , which is a social bookmarking tool for images. The idea, in case you've been stuck in a cave and are not aware of it, is that you create folders, 'pin' items that you find into them, share them with friends and we all live happily ever after. However, after the first rush of unbridled enthusiasm, some people are starting to get worried about the service and they're closing their accounts . There are plentiful reasons why they're doing this - a concern over the way in which Pinterest basically says in the terms and conditions that it's nothing to do with them, it's all your responsibility, and any law suits are down to you to sort out.
Phil Bradley's weblog
Online Insider
I was a tad astonished to read in Mark Gibbs’ Toolshed column for Network World (dated April 19, 2012 online and April 23, 2012 in print) that he’d just discovered Google’s AROUND operator command.
No Shelf Required
Her Majesty The Queen today launched a unique online resource that makes available all the personal journals of Queen Victoria. The Bodleian Libraries working in partnership with The Royal Archives and information company ProQuest, have for the first time ever, made the private records of one of the world’s most influential public figures available for the public to access at www.queenvictoriasjournals.org . [Read more →]
Karen Blakeman
Sixteen people attended the two half day search workshops that I ran on Monday, 6th February 2012. As usual, I asked them at the end of the session to come up with a list of what they thought they would find really useful. Below, in no particular order, is a combined list of top tips. 1. intitle:Information Literacy Weblog
I have a backlog of reports that I meant to read before I blogged, but I think I had better just blog them, starting with some Pew Internet and American Life project reports. On March 19th they published a report about Teens, Smartphones & Texting .if:book
Bill McCoy has assembled a mouth-watering schedule of the International Digital Publishing Forum IDPF meeting on 23-24 May during Book Expo in New York. registration info and full program at http://idpf.org/digitalbook2011 .Go To Hellman
On September 30, 2009, I was standing with about 2,000 of my lifelong friends outside old Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.Learning from YouTube / Alexandra Juhasz / MIT Press / 2010 - [snip] Learning from YouTube , the first video—book published by the MIT Press, investigates these questions with a series of more than 200 texts and videos—"texteos." In scholarly fashion, it has ten "YouTours" composed of sequenced texteos making lengthier arguments. Unlike other books, however, video holds much of its meaning, many authors— students, YouTubers, and other scholars - share its (web) pages, it is written in a relatively informal voice, it cannot be printed and will appear only online, and content can and will be added. YouTube is its subject, form, method, problem, and solution.