8 Jan

Isaak’s Links - 8 January 2006

Posted by Isaak Kwok in Libraries.

  • MagWerk
    You can find 3 virtual magazine (PlayMusicMagazine, Encore Magazine, and Probe Magazine) that are based on Flash in this site. What’s cool is the virtual action of turning the pages like it is in real life except you won’t get papercuts. :P Another interesting thing to note is that the advertisements as well as the articles are interactive through use of Flash and Flash Video. There is even a game, Astroids, built into the magazine, Probe.
    (via Gizmodo)
  • PR blogger comments on libraries, fines and librarian bloggers
    Interesting comments in the post about why libraries have to collect fines if you don’t return the books on time. This was in response to a post by a PR blogger. Quite interesting to see that libraries in the US outsourced their fines collection to debt collection agencies and that the non-recovery of the fines would result in lower credit scores for the patrons. Am sure there will be a big outcry if NLB decides to use a debt collection agency to recover the fines owed by the readers. Anyway, everyone who has S$6 or more fines in their NLB accounts will be sent a letter to remind them to pay their fines promptly in the next couple of weeks.
    (via LibrarianInBlack.net)
  • Smooth passage from books to bytes
    An interesting report from the Hindu Times on NLB, the new national library building at Victoria Street and the digital library service, eLibraryHub. Many might not be aware that you can actually ‘borrow’ e-books and e-zines from the digital library just like you could from the physical ones. You can also access electronic databases such as Factiva, Ebscohost, Proquest and others through the digital library (though these are only available through the multimedia stations in the libraries).
    (via LISNews.org)
  • Branch of National Library for ancient books opened in China
    A branch of National Library of China for Chinese ancient books has been opened in Beijing with more than 2.6 million volumes on library shelves. Their collection also has ancient manuscripts from Dunhuang as part of the International Dunhuang Project.
    (via LISNews.org)
  • Library Meets Them At Mall
    A mall library in New Jersey in the States. It’s the first one in the region and more are sprouting up around America as been noted by the American Library Association. The mall space was donated by the Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, the company that manages the mall. What’s interesting is that just across the road from this satellite library is a full-fledged public library. But the main objective of the mall library is to attract the unlibraried back into libraries. The library carries a limited collection - “mostly popular fiction, new nonfiction and some children’s books, plus DVDs. There are a few computers and two chess tables, with a thriving set of children’s programs, including craft and story hours”.
    (via LISNews.org)

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