Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
From the category archives:
- A hunger for booksUnless you have been leaving under a stone or kept away from all news, then you would know that Doris Lessing has been awarded the “Nobel Prize for Literature”. So, here’s her acceptance speech. Very inspiring reading. - 7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners (Flash plugin required)An online tutorial, created […]
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If you ever had difficulties understanding what a blog is, then the Commoncraft Show has done another wonderful video to explain just that. Sit back and enjoy! YouTube Text Link
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- Ignoring our Digital CommunityDavid Lee King feels that we, as librarians, are ignoring our digital patrons. I guess I have to say in some ways we are ignoring our digital patrons. But we, as in MPOW, have slowly embraced the Web 2.0 wave and are making in-roads in reaching out to the digital community […]
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Click To Play Common Craft has just created another kick-ass video on the new version of Google Docs, that now includes Presentation in addition to Document and Spreadsheet. If you noticed, they have also made a name changed from “Google Docs and Spreadsheets” to “Google Docs”. Enjoy the video.
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- What’s new in Library 2.0? Shift in power.Kathryn has written post about what she thinks is the ‘new’ in new media. Interesting! I think I might be able to use her ideas in explaining to my colleagues what new media is all about when I’m conducting the training for new media literacy. - Under […]
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- 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Index of ResultsMeredith Wolfwater conducted an online survey of librarians and those working in the library field who blog. She has since collated all the submissions and is slowly releasing the survey results. - Young reader’s medal effort - AdelaideNowA eight-year-old boy in Adelaide has read 1000 books since […]
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Well, today (31 August) has been designated as Blog Day. And I’m supposed to list five blogs that I’ve found interesting (do note that I’ve cross-posted this on my personal blog as well). So, here goes: iLibrarian: News and resources related to Library 2.0. Smashing Magazine: Lots of tools, resources and ideas for web designers […]
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- Web 2.0 Search EngineNeed help looking for Web 2.0 tools? Well, look no further as the Web 2.0 Search Engine allows you to search for any Web 2.0 tool that you can think of. Recently, they released a list of the Top 1,000 Web 2.0 Applications. Go have a look at the huge listing […]
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