Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
Inspired by Ruminations’ Top 10 favorite learning tools, here’s my top 10 list. Firefox / Safari - I use both browsers interchangeably though my current default browser is Firefox as I like the extensions it allows me to install that helps in my learning. However, Safari seems to be a little faster in processing the […]
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More video goodness from the folks at Common Craft. YouTube Text Link Enjoy! Technorati Tags: commoncraft, social bookmarking, youtube
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- Recording studio in your library!The Palmerston North City Library has created the first recording studio in a public library and it’s available for patrons to book at US$5 an hour. It’s quite reasonably equipped with an iMac (with ProTools and Garageband loaded), a 4-way headphone amplifier and has a MIDI controller keyboard.(via iLibrarian) - […]
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If you are game to try a new way to do search online, then just do a simple survey and you could be invited to take part in the trial. According to the person who sent me the survey, they are looking for librarians to test this new way of searching. BTW, this search is […]
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All this while, whenever I wanted to look for books and movies, I’ll go to Amazon.com directly or through BookJetty if I also wanted to see its availability at the National Library Board. Well, there seems to be another 5 more ways to browse Amazon according to this article from Read/WriteWeb. They mentioned the following […]
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Kathryn from Librarians Matter has written a wonderful post on reasons why librarians need to learn about emerging technologies. I totally agree with the points (20 to be exact) that she has listed down. Since we are in the information business, I, too, feel that we should be the ones getting into the hang of […]
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Cute Unshelved comic today (it’s yesterday if you’re in Singapore). Update - 5.14pm: Here’s today’s comic which is a continuation from yesterday’s one parodying ‘I’m a PC, I’m a Mac’ ads. Technorati Tags: librarians, libraries, unshelved comics
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Just saw this on Herryanto’s blog about a fantastic new feature for BookJetty users. If you haven’t used BookJetty before, then this is a perfect time to join and use it. This new feature will SMS you the book call number when you click on a SMS link on the book title you are looking […]
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