Isaak’s Links - Authors Share Reads for Summer and others - 30 May 2006
by Isaak Kwok on May 30, 2006 · 0 comments
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- Authors share faves
If you are interested in finding out what Stephen King will be reading this summer, then go on to the article on USA Today. Stephen King, Sophie Kinsella, Jodi Picoult and other authors share what they’ll be reading this summer and why.
(via LISNews)
- Podcast lectures for uni students
A Bradford University lecturer has gone high tech with his teaching methods. He has decided to forego traditional lectures in favor of podcasts and videocasts. He feels that this would allow him to spend more time on small group teaching. Students can send him their queries via text messages and he’ll answer them through his blog. Students can also see when he is available as his calendar is online and they can even book him for a meeting through the online calendar without them having to go to the campus. So, what can librarians learn from this? I feel that we can make use of technology in the provision of our services. We are already using technology to help users look for information such as our email service, ASK. They can also send their queries via text messages to the SMS Reference Service. Another area we can explore is the use of podcasting and/or videocasting to deliver our storytelling sessions and programmes to our users who might not have been able to make it to the libraries.
(via LISNews)
- Life expectancy of bestselling books
An article on Lulu.com shows that on average, a No. 1 bestseller stays on the charts for barely a fortnight last year as compared to 22 weeks in the 1960s. There were 23 No. 1s last year as compared to 3 in the 1960s. Even “The Da Vinci Code” was only able to stay as No. 1 on the bestseller charts for 13 weeks as compared to “Advise and Consent,” a political thriller by Allen Drury, which hit No. 1 on Oct 14, 1959 and stayed there for 57 consecutive weeks, that’s more than a year.
(via LISNews)
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