EBSCO Taking Blogs Seriously (1)
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This email came in to my work address yesterday from EBSCO: Dear EBSCO Customer, Some of you have asked us to consider adding full text blog content to our databases, which would have no impact on the cost of your subscriptions. Before we move forward with this idea, we would like your opinion. Below is a link to a quick, five-question survey. Your answers will help us to gauge the value of adding this type ...
A Brand New Library in Arizona, and Ahead of Schedule Too (1)
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It's Avondale's $6.2 million Old Town Library (pdf) and it opens on September 15th. Detroit-based SmithGroup designed and Tempe-based Sundt Construction built the state-of-the-art library. "In addition to incorporating green and energy-efficient aspects into the building, the architecture makes good use of natural light to create an inviting atmosphere inside the library," said Dan Davis, Avondale's parks, recreation and libraries director. AZ Central reports.
“hi-fi sci-fi library” video is here!+story (1)
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Video is up and linked below! Song available for download very soon through a link on David Lee King’s web page! There is a slew of Libraryland folks singing along in the video (mostly in the second half). Thank you guys! Here is “hi-fi sci-fi library”…behind the music! Several months ago LITA asked me to be one of their keynote speakers at their upcoming National Forum (October 16-19). This made me happy, proud, excited and, ...
I Will Shrink You! (1)
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Via moleskinerie: The Lilly Library at Indiana University has a very nice online exhibit entitled 4000 Years of Miniature Books. It’s based on the University’s rare book holdings, primarily the Ruth E. Adomeit Collection of Miniature Books, and encompasses everything from tiny cuneiform tablets to miniature manuscripts, incunabula, almanacs, children’s literature, foreign language works and modern fine press editions. Each section of the exhibit provides pictures and good background information. This is such a cool ...
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Library resources you can access from home (1)
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If you haven’t visited a library website recently, you may be surprised to learn there are a wealth of free reference sources and research tools which you may be able to access from the comfort of your home, any time of the day or night. If you have a library card, many public library systems give you free access to a wide range of electronic resources through their websites, including subscription databases, reference books, newspapers, ...
Introducing Inferno - CodeIgniter + Libraries (2)
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For quite some time I’ve been fed up of downloading PHP Classes and having to modify them to turn them into CodeIgniter Libraries. I’ve also longed to have a version of CodeIgniter that’s pre-filled with lots of really cool and useful libraries. Ready to use on the fly, or autoloaded on every request. Well, I’d like to introduce ‘Inferno’, the solution to this problem. By wrapping standard, unmodified PHP Classes into libraries, it forms the ...
Email Habits of Library Workers (1)
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About a month ago I posted a simple poll using Doodle to get a quick snapshot of the email habits of librarians and those who work in libraries. I am finally finding a few moments to summarize the results. This is not a very scientific study at all, but it does give an indication that many of us in libraryland seem to feel compelled to check our work email even on weekends and holidays. I ...
Reference link collections (part 1) (1)
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There are a number of reference sites containing collections of links to selected websites organized by subject or category. They are sometimes described as online reference directories, web indexes, or “best of the web,” but I just call them link collections. They can be a good way to discover useful sources of information that you otherwise might never find. Some of the best link collections have been created by librarians who carefully choose which websites ...
A POD of coffee: The Espresso print-on-demand kiosk (1)
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (144)
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Yes, we’ve run items on print-on-demand technology and the Espresso machine. But here’s a nice overview. Thanks, Chris! - D.R. Who says e-reading is the only way to enjoy digitally stored text? Publishers can now turn digital files into a professional-quality printed book. In the most advanced form, the technology even allows printing at the exact location it is needed. This is worlds apart from the traditional publishing method of printing centrally and shipping to ...
Internet Accuracy Tips From CQ Researcher (4)
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My Library subscribes to a lot of periodicals, but the one I always make a point of checking out each month is CQ Researcher. For professional reasons, I know I should keep an eye on current topics in as many of our periodicals and resources as possible, but CQ Researcher is usually interesting beyond professional reasons. I like the format, too - the entire slim issue is devoted to a single topic. The most recent ...
When Information Architecture Can Fall Short (5)
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“Information Architecture involves the design of organization and navigation systems to help people find and manage information more successfully.” Basically, Information Architecture (IA) views websites as libraries in need of the right kind of card catalogue set-up to facilitate information access by visitors. But most websites aren’t libraries, or merely stores of information. In fact, most commercial websites are more interested in persuading visitors to take certain actions (i.e. converting) than they are in providing ...
Libraries Crawling Into the Digital Age (1)
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Are books falling out of favor? It may be about time to dig out that old library card. Hoping to draw back readers, libraries have vastly expanded their lists of digital books, music, and movies that can be downloaded by their patrons to a computer or MP3 player - and it doesn’t cost a cent. (more…)
How it all started (1)
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Tom has tagged me to tell the “How did I get into this crazy gig?” story of my career, so I shall. I may have done this before, but I’d imagine I think of new details each time, so, well, too bad if you’ve heard this before. When I graduated from college, I knew several things. I knew I wanted to stay with my boyfriend while he finished his last year of school. I knew ...
Literary Voyeurism (3)
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Writer's Rooms, portraits of the spaces where authors create: Martin Amis. Simon Armitage. Diana Athill. Jane Austen. Berly Bainbridge. JG Ballard. John Banville. Nicola Barker. Ronan Bennett. Alain de Botton. William Boyd. Raymond Briggs. Charlotte Bronte. Carmen Callil. Jung Chang. Roald Dahl. Charles Darwin. Margaret Drabble. Geoff Dyer. Anne Enright. Joshua Ferris. Jonathan Safran Foer. Margaret Forster. Antonia Fraser. Michael Frayn. Esther Freud. Simon Gray. Mark Haddon. David Hare. David Harsent. Seamus Heaney. Russell Hoban. ...
Social Networking Site launched for Law Students (2)
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CasemakerX announced today the development of a social networking site which will be available to American law students, law school faculty and law librarians who register as users1. In addition to blogging, instant messaging, photo sharing, iPhone plug-ins and streaming video via YouTube, the site offers job postings, a suite of legal discovery products and a law library that includes more than 12 million federal and state case documents, according to the release. I don’t ...
