A short piece on All Things Considered reveals that mother and daughter have very different perspectives on the site, online privacy, and the nature of the web.
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Ab’s Laws of Electronic Resource Management
Since I am moving on from electronic resource management, I thought it would be a good time to share what I’ve learned over the past six years. 1. The more usage a particular e-journal gets, the greater the chance that the holdings statement will be incorrect. Corollary: Journals used by faculty/board members on the library’s …
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Siva Vaidhyanathan on Google and Copyright
On June 15, I heard Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan give the keynote address at the 2006 SUNYLA conference. (Vaidhyanathan is a professor of communications at NYU; you can read more about him, and hear the correct pronunciation of his name, at his blog, sivacracy.net.) He discussed Google’s Book Search initiative and its implications for libraries, copyright …
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Don’t Underestimate Fluffy
Not only is the orange cat at the bottom of the tree many times smaller than the bear, it’s also declawed. See National Geographic News for the full story.
Top Technology Trends
It’s that time of year again. Eric Lease Morgan has posted his trends at the LITA blog in advance of ALA. He touches on catalogs and cataloging, social software and social networking, and open source software, among other things.
Comments & Trackbacks Have Been Cleaned Up
I have cleaned up all the junk comments & trackbacks. MT is supposed to notify me for both but does not seem to be doing so. Apologies for all the junk and offensive content. I’ve changed some settings and will monitor things more closely.
Last week I decided to register with Facebook and see what all the fuss is about. Wow-ee, is it eye-opening! In addition to my Binghamton e-mail address I have an alumna e-mail address for my alma mater, so I registered for both networks. For those of you who don’t know, Facebook is a social networking …
What Are You Wearing?
Futurist Joseph Coates discusses some predictions about what you will wear in the Future of Clothing. Among them: Clothing will be able to change color and will sense changes in such things as temperature, moisture level, and anxiety As they become personal e-billboards and are infused with fragrance and pheromones, clothes will play an increasingly …
Library Content in Blackboard
Claire Dygert of American University Library gave an excellent presentation at NASIG about her library’s use of Blackboard to provide course-related content to professors and students. American University and Washington Research Libraries Consortium, to which AU belongs, developed a plug-in for Bb called LinkMaker. LinkMaker assists faculty and librarians with the creation of persistent, proxied …
Google Related Links
I’m giving Google Related Links a whirl over on the right side of this page (for the small percentage of you who are looking at “this page”). It’s probably temporary, but I’m curious to see how it works.