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Reference Future-Present

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in future, libraries and reference. 0 Comments

As reference content continues to be reimagined in increasingly dynamic ways—with immediacy, multimedia, and social networking at the fore—it is more than just evolving. It is getting wholly reinvented, by all. Library Journal asked reference publishers and librarians to share their expectations for the future by coining their own definition of the term Reference 3.0. Their replies challenge and inspire.

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NextGen: Embracing My Authority

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in librarians/information professionals. 0 Comments

Academic librarian Rebecca Metzger finds that power doesn’t come from an imposing desk in an office but from those you help and the respect and even affection they give in return.

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For Books, Is Obama the New Oprah?

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in books, politics and publishing. 0 Comments

Motoko Rich writes: “When President-elect Barack Obama appeared on 60 Minutes November 16 in his first interview since winning the election, he mentioned having read ‘a new book out about FDR’s first 100 days’ without specifically naming a title or author. That tantalizing reference set off a scramble for the claim to First Reader rights the next day before a spokesman disclosed the president-elect was referring to two books: Jonathan Alter’s The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (Simon & Schuster, 2006), and Jean Edward Smith’s FDR (Random House, 2007).”

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New Online: Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Fall 2008

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in web 2.0, libraries and library services. 0 Comments

This issue’s theme is Web 2.0. Articles include: Science Experiments: Reaching Out to Our Users, Web 2.0 as Catalyst: Virtually Reaching Out to Users and Connecting Them to Library Resources and Services, An Undergraduate Science Information Literacy Tutorial in a Web 2.0 World, Making Research Guides More Useful and More Well Used.

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US News & World Report — World’s Best Colleges and Universities

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in education. 0 Comments

U.S. News & World Report is proud to publish our first ever World’s Best Colleges and Universities rankings. These rankings are based on data from the THE-QS World University Rankings, which were produced in association with QS Quacquarelli Symonds. QS Quacquarelli Symonds, one of the world’s leading networks for careers and education, has been publishing world rankings since 2004. These rankings have obtained increasing influence among academics worldwide and have a growing impact among prospective students and government policymakers. The U.S. News World’s Best Colleges and Universities rankings enable our readers to understand more fully how well American institutions perform when compared with other institutions of higher learning around the world. The bottom line is that they perform very well: Nearly 60 schools in the Top 200 Universities Worldwide are in the United States.

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Library Journal Teaching Award 2008: Rick J. Block

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in education and librarians/information professionals. 0 Comments

Columbia University’s Rick J. Block, an adjunct at both the Pratt Institute and Palmer School of Library and Information Science, is the 2008 winner of the ProQuest-sponsored LJ Teaching Award. Come meet him.

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Library Journal’s Reference 2009: E-Reference Ratings

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in libraries, library services, digital and reference. 0 Comments

This year’s annual Reference supplement introduces a new resource that is every reference librarian’s dream: E-Reference Ratings, a master list of nearly 180 subscription-based electronic resources in 14 categories evaluated by scope, writing, design, bells & whistles, ease of use, and linking. To be updated quarterly; you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.

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Library of Congress, National Library of China Sign World Digital Library Agreement

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in China, digital and Library of Congress. 0 Comments

The Library of Congress and the National Library of China have concluded an agreement to cooperate in developing the World Digital Library. The two libraries agreed to provide content to the World Digital Library and to cooperate in such areas as the development and maintenance of the Chinese-language interface, the convening of international working groups to plan and develop the project, and the formation of an advisory committee of leading scholars and curators to recommend important collections about the culture and history of China for inclusion in the World Digital Library.

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European Online Library Launches

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in libraries, digital, Europe and Europeana. 0 Comments

The British Library in London is among more than 1,000 cultural organizations making contributions to a European online library. The free multimedia venture, Europeana, will also see input from the European Commission and the Louvre Museum. Internet users will be able to access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings, and films. These will be sourced from institutions across the EU’s member states.

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Library Helped Obama’s Job Search

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in library services, politics and career. 0 Comments

As a reminder that local libraries offer extensive job-search resources, here’s how Barack Obama found his community-organizing job in Chicago after he graduated from Columbia University. In 2005, he told American Libraries magazine: “I probably would not be in Chicago were it not for the Manhattan public library, because I was looking for an organizing job and was having great trouble finding a job as a community organizer in New York.”

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Emory and George Mason Team Up on Zotero Project

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in libraries, cataloging and open source. 0 Comments

Emory University Libraries and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University have entered a cooperative partnership on Zotero, the free, open-source bibliographic manager. A team of librarians, information technologists, and faculty members led by Connie Moon Sehat, Emory Libraries’ new director of digital scholarship initiatives, will extend the research capabilities of the software in collaboration with Zotero’s main development team.

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35 Going on 13: The Year’s Best Teen Fiction for Adults

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in books and publishing. 0 Comments

November, when the best-of lists come fast and furious, is the most wonderful time of the year. Our own Angelina Benedetti offers up her picks for 2008’s best teen fiction titles for adults, including last night’s National Book Award winner for Young People’s Literature, What I Saw and How I Lied.

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A Place of Refuge

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in libraries, library services and patrons. 0 Comments

Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Díaz recounts how the library helped him discover a world he wouldn’t have known otherwise and how for him, as an immigrant child, the library was a place—and a concept—he never could have imagined. Some Hispanics, like Díaz, who was newly arrived from the Dominican Republic, will dig right in and take advantage of everything the library has to offer. But many others remain strangers to the library, perhaps because they are never made aware of helpful library services because of a lack of library outreach efforts or bilingual staff, or a darker reality for some Hispanics, because they fear being identified as illegal immigrants.

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Architecture as Advocacy

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in libraries and architecture. 0 Comments

The new Amsterdam Public Library is an architectural gem that features skylights, terraces, a seven-story atrium, walls of windows, stunning views and an open floor plan that constantly presents new spaces and interesting places. The facility is the foundation of the city’s redevelopment for the Oosterdokseiland area—and the heart of the library’s new attitude.

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Life 2.0: The Evolution of Our Digital DNA

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in digital and technology. 0 Comments

In Life 2.0, people move into a shared network space that drives work, research, education, entertainment, social activities—essentially everything they do. They use digital tools—PDA, MP3, laptop, cell phone, camera, PC—to tell their stories and interact with the world. They are always online, connected to one another and to the Web.

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Scan on Demand: Open Library and Boston Public Library Put a Twist on Scanning Projects

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in libraries, library services and digital. 0 Comments

In a demand-driven solution to what to scan first, a patron request to digitize any public domain book on the shelves of Boston Public Library can be submitted via Open Library’s site.

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‘$100 Laptop’ Group Reboots Give One Get One Offer

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in OLPC. 0 Comments

The One Laptop Per Child project is set to resume its Give One Get One promotion for its kid-friendly computers with logistics help from Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. With Give One Get One, shoppers spend about $400 to buy one of OLPC’s rugged green-and-white XO laptops and donate a second to a child in a developing country.

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Spotlight on Statistics: Thanksgiving

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in Bureau of Labor Statistics. 0 Comments

What activities do you have planned for this Thanksgiving? Perhaps cooking and enjoying a meal with family or friends, playing sports or watching sports on television, doing volunteer work, or shopping? Here’s a look at some Bureau of Labor Statistics data behind those Thanksgiving scenes.

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9 Underrated Technologies For Growing Companies

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in corporations and technology. 0 Comments

The latest and greatest technologies always get the attention and accolades, but it’s the unsung and unheralded technologies that are often the unsung workhorses that keep your business running — functional trumps flash and fancy every time. Here, bMighty reviews nine technologies that have been overlooked, underhyped, or taken for granted.

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Make Room for the Millennials

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in Generation Y, information and technology. 0 Comments

By 2010, the Millennial generation—those now 14 to 28—will outnumber their Boomer parents. Also known as “Generation Y,” the “Net Generation” or “Echo Boomers,” this group of approximately 76 million people have been described as “thinking and processing information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.” Information services that match their information-seeking habits will be more relevant to this group. In fact, the term ‘Screenagers’ has been used to refer to the youngest segment of this group (14–19-year-olds) because of their affinity for communications technology.

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Google Unveils Customised Search

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in search, Google and wiki. 0 Comments

Google has unveiled a tool that will allow users to customise and refine their search queries. The company’s SearchWiki lets users re-order, remove or add specific web search results. This means the next time they perform the same search, the personalised version will pop up. “I would call this revolutionary. It’s a huge step, not a baby step in the world of search,” Google’s product manager, Cedric Dupont, told the BBC.

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How Google’s Ear Hears

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in search, Google and iPhone. 0 Comments

The new voice-search application for the iPhone marks a milestone for spoken interfaces. If you own an iPhone, you can now be part of one of the most ambitious speech-recognition experiments ever launched. On Monday, Google announced that it had added voice search to its iPhone mobile application, allowing people to speak search terms into their phones and view the results on the screen.

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Privacy Laws Trip Up Google’s Expansion in Parts of Europe

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in search, Google and privacy. 0 Comments

When Google began hiring in Zurich for its new engineering center in 2004, local officials welcomed the company with open arms. Google’s arrival is still bearing fruit for Zurich: 450 people, 300 of them engineers, work in Google’s seven-story complex in a converted brewery on the outskirts of the placid mountain metropolis. But almost five years into its expansion into Europe — where it has a headquarters in Dublin, large offices in Zurich and London, and smaller centers in countries like Denmark, Russia and Poland — Google is getting caught in a web of privacy laws that threaten its growth and the positive image it has cultivated as a company dedicated to doing good.

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Find Your Inner Dewey Decimal Class Number

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in users and cataloging. 0 Comments

Spacefem writes: “This quiz will convert your name to a class listed in the Dewey Decimal Classification system. That’s right. There’s no reason you can’t be classified, albeit randomly, just like a library book. Libraries are freaking awesome and we all need to read more, so there. Somewhere between 000 (Generalities) and 999 (Extraterrestrial worlds), you have a place.”

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The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in web 2.0 and leadership. 0 Comments

We’ve heard the stats before — only a quarter of those involved in computer and mathematical occupations are women. And yet, in the ever-evolving world of Web 2.0, women have often been pioneers, redefining the way we interact online. To give credit where it’s due, we tracked down the most influential of these. Our list wasn’t chosen by star power, nor by career altitude. Rather, we feature the biggest innovators.

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A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries & the Google Library Project Settlement

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in books, Google and publishing. 0 Comments

“On October 28, 2008, after several years of legal wrangling, Google, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and the Authors Guild reached a settlement agreement concerning Google’s scanning of copyrighted works. The scanning of these works has been done in cooperation with research libraries throughout the United States. The settlement agreement requires court approval by the presiding judge in the U.S. District Court in New York because the case was brought as a class action suit on behalf of selected copyright owners.

In large part, the settlement focuses on in-copyright books that are not commercially available. Public domain works fall outside of the settlement and owners of commercially available, in-copyright books created prior to January 5, 2009, may opt-out of the settlement or opt-in to other terms with Google. As a part of the settlement agreement, Google will fund the establishment of the Book Rights Registry. The Registry, jointly run by authors and publishers, will collect and distribute royalties including an up-front payment by Google of $45 million. Users will have several new opportunities to access scanned books, both free and fee-based, via public and university libraries and through institutional subscriptions for academic, corporate, and government libraries and organizations.”

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An Analysis of the Google Settlement

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in books, Google and publishing. 0 Comments

James Grimmelmann, an assistant law professor at New York Law School, reviewed the proposed settlement in the Google Book Search case, along with its 13 appendixes, and came up with some guiding principles for the court as it considers whether to approve the settlement, and for the public to help in thinking about its effects. Basically, he says the settlement is a good thing as it stands, but there are a few tweaks that could make it better.

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Reference Librarians in the Age of Google

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in libraries, librarians/information professionals, Google and reference. 0 Comments

At a symposium hosted last year by Columbia University’s library system, Steven Bell, a librarian from Temple University, took a controversial stand. In a public debate before an audience made up almost entirely of reference librarians, Bell argued for the abolition of the reference desk by the year 2012. His position wasn’t as radical as it might sound. He wasn’t advocating that his listeners retire or find new jobs. To the contrary, he said he believes that their services are more important than ever. But with the Internet changing not only the ways that people—students, scholars, and even librarians—conduct research, but also how they communicate, he believes the old model of a desk staffed by highly trained reference librarians is well on its way to becoming outdated, perhaps even extinct.

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How Companies Are Using IT To Spot Innovative Ideas

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in innovation, corporations and technology. 0 Comments

Tools like prediction markets and online voting can’t replace internal innovation processes. But they can open a new channel. Few things matter more to a company. Think of the impact a single product, whether the iPod or New Coke, can have on a company’s fortunes. IT needs to make itself part of that process, and one way is by providing tools to help their companies make better decisions. Like blogs, wikis, and other social software, these tools tap into a free exchange of ideas. Unlike other social software, they lead to a definitive outcome and measurable results.

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Mrs. P’s Storytelling Site Aims to Amuse, Enchant

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in education and storytelling. 0 Comments

After nearly two years in development, Mrs. P, a free children’s entertainment and educational website celebrating books and reading, officially launched November 10. In a nod to Cinderella, the site debuted at the stroke of midnight, featuring 15 classic fairy tales read by Mrs. P from her “Magic Library.” The interactive site features actress Kathy Kinney, who played Mimi on The Drew Carey Show, as a globe-trotting, redheaded Irishwoman who brings classic children’s stories to life with her own brand of quirky humor.

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The Librarian and the Elf

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in libraries. 0 Comments

Janet Bailey, technical services librarian at the Abilene (Tex.) Public Library, touts the wonders of Elf, a web-based and email tool for library users to keep track of library borrowings: “Once upon a time there was a librarian who could not seem to return her books and DVDs on time. She had overdue issues. Soon all of their cards were blocked with late fees. This made her family sad, for they really liked to read, listen to ‘Hank the Cowdog,’ and watch DVDs.”

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Fortress of Comic-Tude

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in libraries, library services, collections and comics. 0 Comments

As the comic art bibliographer at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Randy Scott is responsible for growing and maintaining the largest library comic book collection in the world. With about 240,000 comics and books about comics, the collection is larger than that of the Library of Congress. If Scott could have his way, he would have a $5,000 monthly budget. However, like most publicly funded entities these days, he doesn’t quite have his dream budget. Scott has just more than $1,000 a month to work with.

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Sweden’s Library Bus of the Year

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in libraries, library services and books. 0 Comments

Peter Thuvander and Martin Hedenström of the design group Muungano have won the Swedish Library Bus of the Year award for creating a bookmobile for the town of Kiruna, Sweden’s northernmost city. The award is sponsored by the Swedish Library Association. Because of the lack of sunlight during most of the year in the area it serves, the bus is well-lit when dark to attract users. It offers books, multimedia, computer games, and internet access.

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Trenton Resolves Branch Crisis

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in libraries and economics. 0 Comments

Neighborhood branch libraries in Trenton, New Jersey, have been granted a reprieve allowing them to remain open at least through the end of next year, library officials announced November 10. The branches will stay in operation partly by shifting staff from the main library and limiting hours there, thanks to an agreement with State Librarian Norma E. Blake, library director Kimberly M. Bray said.

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Branch Closings and Budget Cuts Threaten Libraries Nationwide

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in libraries, library services and economics. 0 Comments

public library budgets in the wake of revenue shortfalls and dire economic news. In a grim November 6 speech in which he called for sweeping job cuts and service reductions in many city departments, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter announced the permanent closing of 11 out of 54 library branches and the elimination of Sunday hours at the three regional branches. “Make no mistake,” Nutter said. “This will be a mid-year revision of epic proportions.”

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N.Y. Public Library Puts its ‘Treasures’ Online

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in libraries, digital, collections and NYPL. 0 Comments

The New York Public Library quietly rolled out a new video series last month. Titled “Treasures,” it showcases 11 gems of the library’s vast collection of more than 50 million items. And since then it has joined Facebook, broadening an online reach that already included YouTube and iTunes pages to gain more of an audience — which, for one of the world’s largest public libraries, includes “everybody from preschool toddlers to the greatest writers in the world,” says president Paul LeClerc.

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Delta iTunes U Enhances Learning in a Familiar Web 2.0 Environment

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in education, technology and Apple. 0 Comments

Students now expect to use interactive, Web2.0 applications in their education environments. As part of a strategy to meet such expectations, Delta College in Michigan launched an online Delta iTunes U environment this fall.

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ARL Releases Ithaka Study Report on Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in digital, publishing and ARL. 0 Comments

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released the final report of “Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication”, a study that ARL commissioned Ithaka to conduct. The study, conducted by Nancy L. Maron and K. Kirby Smith, comes with the database of exemplars that it produced. The study’s focus was on those projects that are pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them. Ithaka’s findings are based on a collection of resources identified by a volunteer field team of over 300 librarians at 46 academic institutions in the US and Canada.

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College Life in a Wireless Age

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in education and technology. 0 Comments

Today’s wired student, bud in ear, studies on an ever-evolving campus, one where administrators continually roll out services for the internet-immersed. Over the years, distance learning, podcasts, and high-tech classrooms have transformed academics and the way students learn. But the innovations also have had a wider reach, affecting aspects of everyday campus life — from allowing freshman to pick their own roommates through a web-based social network to changing the way they do laundry.

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Top 10 Most Annoying Phrases

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in language. 0 Comments

John Scott Lewinski writes: “Not all University of Oxford researchers are uptight and humorless, ‘irregardless’ of what you might think. In fact, a bunch of them compiled a list of the Top 10 Most Irritating Expressions in the English language—just because we needed one. The list appears in a new book, Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare, by Jeremy Butterfield.” In addition to the 10 listed, commenters have supplied many others.

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Peru to Sue Yale for Inca Relics

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in history. 0 Comments

According to state media, the Peruvian government will take legal action to recover thousands of Incan relics excavated by a US explorer at Machu Picchu.

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The Christian Science Monitor Moves to a Web-Based Model—Is This the Future of News?

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in publishing and newspapers. 0 Comments

On Oct. 28, 2008, The Christian Science Monitor (www.csmonitor.com) announced what managing publisher Jonathan Wells called a “period of big change,” moving from daily print distribution to the production of daily web editions with a print weekend edition and a daily email service. Wells described the newspaper industry as being in a “nexus of change,” a “rapidly changing media landscape,” with readers increasingly migrating to the web for information. Monitor editor, John Yemma, noted that the “old business model for print journalism is broken,” with the internet creating major disruption to all traditional news media. In meetings held over the past 2 years, Monitor staff and Christian Science church leaders looked at how the internet offered a “tremendous opportunity” for true global distribution of news and information, the Monitor’s core mission.

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OCLC Members Council Meet to Discuss Similarities and Differences in Libraries Worldwide

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in libraries and OCLC. 0 Comments

Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) has announced that the OCLC Members Council recently met in Dublin, Ohio, to discuss similarities and differences in libraries around the world, continue planning a transition to a Global Council and Regional Councils to extend OCLC participation, and elect a council delegate to the OCLC Board of Trustees. Under the direction of Members Council President Loretta Parham, Library Director and CEO, The Atlanta University Center, delegates also heard reports from OCLC senior management and staff, and discussed the worldwide library cooperative’s plans and activities.

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Talk Face-to-Face Within Gmail

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in Google, chat and VoIP. 0 Comments

As webcams have become popular, more and more of us are realizing that video is the next best thing to an in-person conversation. On November 11, Google introduced Gmail voice and video chat, which lets you have free voice and video conversations within Gmail. Click on the new “Video & more” menu in a Gmail chat window and select “Start video chat” or “Start voice chat.”

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Turn Your iPhone Into an e-Book

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in Apple, iPhone and e-books. 0 Comments

Lexcycle’s Stanza program displays electronic books and articles in the iPhone or Touch screen in an easy-to-read (and adjustable) format.

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Raising the Genius Bar: 7 Years of iPod Evolution

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Published by rwatstein November 15th, 2008 in innovation, technology and Apple. 0 Comments

It has been seven years since Steve Jobs announced the first “perfect thing” in the fall of 2001. Since then, very few products have come to exact total domination in their respected fields like the iPod has. And really, no other gadget in recent memory (save for maybe the iPhone) has exploded onto the cultural cache with the same impact. Here, take a scroll down memory lane with us and see the evolution of the product from its initial rocky conception to its current button-free touchscreen interface. Come on, it’ll be fun.

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