September 26, 2008 – 1:07 pm
As DST explores web 2.0 applications we’re about to focus on possibilities for teaching and discovery options to present to library users through the libraries’ website. We’re looking for good examples of technology toolboxes or (better, more playful!) sandbox features on library or other educational websites. Have you seen anything like this? [...]
September 24, 2008 – 11:10 am
Did you know that the Forbes Library has 2 Kindles you can check out, preloaded with a variety of titles? My wife discovered this a while ago, put her name on the list, and waited a couple of months before getting it. We’ve both tried it, and it does fit nicely in the hands, the [...]
September 19, 2008 – 4:33 pm
From the New York Times: I put in 5 miles at the office
“TERRI KRIVOSHA, a partner at a Minneapolis law firm, logs three miles each workday on a treadmill without leaving her desk. She finds it easier to exercise while she types than to attend aerobics classes at the crack of dawn. [...]
September 19, 2008 – 11:06 am
This is interesting, amazing, thought-provoking and not very green (?)!
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6735
September 19, 2008 – 9:24 am
I pass along this posting from the ARLIS/NA list
>>> Thomas Hill 9/16/2008 8:34 PM >>>
Dear friends,
I wish to draw your attenion to a marvelous series of images of small
exhibits of artists’ books curated by our colleague Rosemary Furak at
the Walker Art Center Library, available on Flickr at:
http://flickr.com/photos/walkerart/sets/72157606222409902/.
The exhibits offer a premonition of what to [...]
September 15, 2008 – 3:04 pm
This is a good read from the Chronicle.
Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind – ChronicleReview.com.
In it the author, Mark Bauerlein writes that online reading is a very different kettle of fish from other types of reading such as reading a book. Undergrads now arrive at college having been reading online all their life and there [...]
September 13, 2008 – 10:55 am
In the latest issue of _Searcher_ Stephen Abram has a feature article, “Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition” I’ll save a bookmark for the full article in our 21st Century Libraries delicious account: http://del.icio.us/21centurylibs. Here are highlights of his 14 scenarios for reference service in libraries:
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep08/Abram.shtml
A Baker’s Dozen of Scenarios
What are [...]
September 10, 2008 – 10:05 pm
One person’s view of the planned Ex Libris URM
