Anthropology Links. Online Exhibitions | Peabody Museum. Anthropology Online Resources at Education Index. Anthropology Resources on the Internet : WWW Virtual Library of Archaeology and Prehistory, History Central Catalogue. Free Online Literature and Study Guides. Networking for Water Librarians: Mailing Lists, E-Journals, Associations, Blogs, Newsletters. S Bookmarks. My Word's Worth - Backfile, volume 6. My Word's Worth - learning by accident. One of the recurring stories in American media is that our kids don't know very much about history, religion, science, math, literature, nutrition -- the list goes on and on, as middle aged reporters and readers congratulate ourselves on how much better we were educated. But were we really? After all, it's easy for us to think about what we know and assume we always knew it, but how much of that did we know when we were only eighteen?
For that matter, how much of what we know did we learn in school at all? Very little, is my guess. It seems to me that we learn in several different ways. We learn (or don't) what is drilled into us in school. We learn the things that have an immediate pay off for us, which is why business students, for instance, are more likely to remember what they learned in accounting courses than in their required course in western civilization. But we also learn things by sheerest accident. There are things we learn because they matter to the people around us. Steven Bell's Keeping Up Web Site. If you are interested in doing a better job of keeping up - you are in the right place. If you need ideas for resources where you can find information to help you stay relevant as an information professional - you are in the right place. If you are ready to start on an e-regimen for personal, professional development - you are in the right place.
Welcome to the Keeping Up Web Site! Announcement: The Keeping Up Web Site is no longer being maintained on a regular basis. It is reviewed annually for link rot and minor changes. To be occasionally alerted to new keeping up resources subscribe to Steven Bell's Twitter feed: Mission: A central, guiding premise of this web site is that academic librarians and technology professionals must go beyond the constraints of their own literature to really keep up and maintain their myriad skills and diversified knowledge base. Latest Additions: FutureThink Weekly Innovation Tip Site began: January 2001 More ideas... Hooeey webprint: Save Your Web History In A Browsing Library.
Gravee - The Social Search and Recommendation Engine. Welcome to Amplify.com - Amplify is a social network for learning, discovery & conversation without limits. Blog, or weblog, but not really web log. Content and Collections [OCLC - Products and Services] Digitization 101. 10+ Interesting Instant Search Engines to Check out. Ever since Google has introduced Instant search, there have been numerous attempts to replicate the behavior and style and apply it to other search sites. As the result, there have appeared multiple “Instant” search mash-ups we, as search marketers, should be keeping en eye on (as these mash-ups provide a lot of insight into different types of search experience). 1.
Instant Videos I felt obliged to start with Youtube Instant, one of the most successful instant mash-ups. Built overnight, Youtube Instant brought its creator Feross Aboukhadijeh instant fame and a job at Youtube. How Youtube Instant works: As-you-type suggestion source: Youtube SuggestSearch results: the tool will instantly show and start playing the top video returned for the suggested term (I like it call “Youtube I am Feeling Lucky Instant” for that reason) and will then load next 5 search results one by one (I use it as a play list sometimes which is quite awesome!) More instant video search: 2. More instant images: 3. 4. 5. UC Libraries Hits 3 Million Book Scan Milestone « LJ Insider. DigitalLibraries. A Library Designed for the Post-Print Era | Co.Design. The defining decorative element of a library has always been the books themselves.
But now that institutions ranging from the University of Texas at Austin to ultra-traditional Cushing Academy are tossing their stacks in favor of digital collections, the question arises: How do you design a library when print books are no longer its core business? At the University of Amsterdam, Dutch designers Studio Roelof Mulder and Bureau Ira Koers converted an existing 27,000-square-foot library into a massive study hall -- without any visible books -- to accommodate the 1,500 to 2,000 students who visit daily. Instead of stacks, the place is littered with workspaces. And instead of lending bureaus, it's got a so-called red room: a space filled with more than 100 plastic red crates, where students can pick up books they requested online. It's a clever way to adapt to the post-print era. The library won a 2010 Dutch Design Award recently.