Monthly Archives: May 2006

What Are You Wearing?

Posted on May 22, 2006 by abigail

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 … Continue reading →

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Library Content in Blackboard

Posted on May 9, 2006 by abigail

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 … Continue reading →

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Google Related Links

Posted on May 8, 2006 by abigail

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.

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NASIG Conference: Robin Sloan of EPIC 2014 Fame

Posted on May 5, 2006 by abigail

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, … Continue reading →

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Keeping Up: Beyond the Library

Posted on May 4, 2006 by abigail

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 … Continue reading →

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