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 direct [...]
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 [...]
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.
NASIG’s first Vision Session (aka plenary session) featured Robin Sloan of Current TV. The description was intriguing: “…Media is becoming digitized and disaggregated, free to float across the internet and get downloaded and uploaded, blogged and sold, pirated and appreciated, remixed and reimagined…. So what about libraries and scholarly communication?…” What I didn’t [...]
There’s a lot of talk about “keeping up” in the profession these days. In addition to traditional journals and low-tech ways of learning like conference and workshop attendance, library blogs are proliferating and online conferences of both the free and pay variety seem to be catching on. With so many options just within [...]