Isaak’s Links - 20 September 2005
by Isaak Kwok on September 20, 2005 · 0 comments
in libraries
- Target Launches Unique, Innovative Book Club for Parents and Children:
The Parent/Child Book Club “an online club with dozens of tools and incentives aimed at getting children and adults to plunge into books together while building an appetite for reading that will last a lifetime” (from the press release). Anyway, it’s a rather innovative way to promote reading. Maybe the library can work with Popular to promote reading via such a website to help promote the setting up with reading clubs all over Singapore. By the way, Target is a huge retailer in the US and they also have Target stores in Australia, which happens to sell books as part of their wide range of products. (via LISNews.com)
- LibriVox:
LibriVox is an open source audio library with a difference. You can volunteer by reading and recording chapters of books from the public domain into the digital format. Anyone would be able to download the books as podcasts. (via Resource Shelf)
- 10 Ways To Make the Internet A Better Place:
Go have a look and you can pick up some tips. (via LISNews.com)
- More On IM At Reference Desk:
A good blog post by Christina Pikas on her library’s offering of IM at the reference counter. There are some things we have to look out for if we intend to have IM service at our reference counters. There might be a need to review our reference interview process as IM will be less personal. (via Tame The Web)
- How to Google Effectively:
A wonderful page that teaches you how to do a Google search. A bit technical, but definitely useful. (via Lifehacker)