Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
From the monthly archives:
Just saw the announcement of CC Singapore on my feedreader from Creative Commons blog. Currently, the draft of CC BY-NC-SA is put for public discussion. So, do go over to CC Singapore to join in the discussion. CC Singapore is hosted by the Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law & Policy (CAPTEL) and is lead […]
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Really looking forward to the release of Mozilla Firefox 3 on 17 June 2008 (18 June in Singapore). Have been using the betas of Firefox 3 (the latest is Release Candidate 3) for the past couple of months and it has been a pleasure to use. The previous version had problems with high memory usage […]
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Just read on the Encyclopaedia Britannica blog that they have decided to move their entire works into a wiki platform. Very interesting news indeed! I think Encyclopaedia Britannica is getting a little worried about the increasing influence of Wikipedia although many academic institutions still disallow its use for citation purposes in the students’ papers. For […]
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Robert Darnton recently wrote in the New York Review of Books (12 June issue) about “The Library in the New Age”. It is definitely a very intriguing read. In the first chapter, he asked the question of “what will become of research libraries in the face of the technological marvels such as Google?” Talking about […]
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- Teachers ‘Not Reading Children’s Books’Research by the Centre for Literacy and Primary Education (CLPE) in the States has found that many teachers do not regularly read children’s literature. In addition, they tend to choose books from a narrow band of authors. I wonder if it’s true for teachers in Singapore as well.(via LISNews) - […]
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Was quite appalled when I chanced upon this screenshot of a question posted in a forum. I guess the person posting it or his sister has never heard of a place called a “LIBRARY”. Or maybe the place where the person stays doesn’t have a library. I think given the more difficult economic times, it […]
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The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction was awarded on 04 June at London’s Royal Festival Hall to Rose Tremain for her novel, The Road Home (Call No.: English TRE). The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is open to only female authors and the books need to be published in English. The award comes with £30,000 […]
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