Via Web4Lib:
Primary Research Group is planning to publish a survey of library use of and relations with mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Ebay, My Space, YouTube and others. Academic, public, and special libraries are eligible. This is an international survey open to libraries of all countries. Data is aggregated [...]

Via Web4Lib:
Primary Research Group is planning to publish a survey of academic library websites. This survey is restricted to college libraries, including 2-year, 4-year and university websites, and is open to the academic libraries of all countries. The survey should be taken by the library website webmaster or other individual knowledgeable [...]

Right now I’m reading a book (for review) entitled The Academic Library and the Net Generation. In the introduction, Susan Gibbons talks about a study done at Rochester of how the library is used. I was excited and thought the book was going to be about that! When I realized it wasn’t, I [...]

I just have to make this short post to say that I love the blogosphere! I love getting so many views on one topic. I read the recent NY Times article about the OCA & Google books and took it one way - others have read it and seen it from completely different angles [...]

Get the Word Out?Fast! - Reviews by PC MagazineWith the birth of Twitter came a new way to communicate online and via mobile devices. Here’s our take on Twitter and four upstart competitors in the nascent microblogging, moblogging world.
University Publishing In A Digital Age
Software and Collaboration in Higher Education: A Study of Open Source Software

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Via LibVive:
Public libraries are the natural venue for tech support problems to get fixed. Libraries care about people’s access to information, right? How about if we tack on an extra $1 to the cost of every new computer — and then fund libraries to stay open some extra hours in the evening (or on the [...]

We all know about print on demand services like LuLu and Blurb, but what if you could go to the local coffee shop, library or bookstore and print your book on demand?
If former Random House editorial director Jason Epstein has his way, as early as next year people will be able to order books online [...]

I just love every video I’ve seen by this man! Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and author/director of The Machine is Us/ing Us has another video addressing the issues brought up in Everything is Miscellaneous (a book I’m finally reading now that I have some time):

Yesterday at the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable, one talk was about the rules for making sure you get a good deal when having an outside company scan and use your library content. Today, I was pointed to an article in the New York Times comparing the Open Content Alliance partners with the Google Book Search [...]

Last night I was updating my wish list on Amazon and I know that the site didn’t look like it does this morning.

In the top right they invite us to see what’s new:

Looks prettly slick - guess I’ll need to poke around some and see if it’s more usable - since re-designs are all about [...]

SteveSteve is a research project whose participants are building a tagging tool, collecting tags, analyzing data, and engaging in discussion. We hope to apply what we learn to improving access to works of art.

More of my links

Here is my presentation from today’s roundtable meeting:

Library 2.0 & the HumanitiesNFAIS - Humanities Roundtable, New York, NY, October 22, 2007

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I am giving a workshop on Flickr next month and I have to admit that there isn’t a conference that goes by where I don’t learn something new about Flickr (that I should have known). I’m at the NFAIS Humanities Rountable and Tim Spalding has just finished his intro to LibraryThing talk in which [...]

The New Media Ecosystem: Resistance Is Futile (And Could Even Be Fatal) — Internet EvolutionGamers, YouTubers, and MySpace cadets are sitting in the next cubicles. Stop fighting them and, instead, welcome them into your corporate network.
Innovate: Places to Go: FacebookStephen Downes reviews Facebook, one of the most widely popular of social networking sites that has [...]

Michael pointed me to this interview with John Blyberg - I haven’t finished it yet because lunch is over, but I’m sure it’s worth a listen/looksie

Judith shares with us her reading list and I have to say I’m intrigued - I must now find all of these items and read them.

Using Our Own Services, by Wayne Bivens-Tatum [Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA], Academic Librarian, 9 October 2007, http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2007/10/using_our_own_services.htmlExcerpt: "Librarians would probably be better librarians if the occasionally used [...]

reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read BooksreCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and use
LibraryThing and the Library Catalog: Adding [...]

I’m not quite as offended as Chris Schwartz is about the statements made by Chris Oliver in her Changing to RDA article - maybe because I haven’t read it - or the RDA draft, but I wanted to chime in anyway
Chris Oliver says:
The standard is designed to be easy to use and to [...]

So, this is what Librarian Hell looks like ….

As most of you know, I’m new to this area. I’ve driven past a library on my way to the grocery store that has a sign out front for a book sale. This morning, I wanted to find out more info about this event, but my county’s library website is beyond horrible. [...]

Celebrating ResearchA book and Web site profiling selected rare and special collections available for use in the major research libraries of North America, compiled to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Association of Research Libraries.
mediatedcultures.net @ kansas state universityhome of the digital ethnography working group, a team of cultural anthropology undergraduates led by
Dr. Michael Wesch [...]

How many homepages can one person have? There’s My Yahoo!, My Google, My … fill in the blank here. Anyway, now the NY Times wants to give you a homepage - My Times.
My Times is a free service that lets you create a personalized page with what you like best in The New York [...]

Remember this video? Almost every Web 2.0 talk starts with this video now. Thanks to Stephen I now know that this professor has put together more videos.
Information Revolution
A Vision of Students Today (This is the latest and it’s awesome! A MUST SEE VIDEO. I lve the creation process too.)
Other videos are available [...]

Did you know about these? I didn’t.
H2O playlists are more than just a cool, sleek technology — they represent a new way of thinking about education online. An H2O Playlist is a series of links to books, articles, and other materials that collectively explore an idea or set the stage for a course, discussion, or [...]

Chris Cormack, Vice President, Research & Development at LibLime, is the winner of the New Zealand Open Source Awards for contributions to the Koha Project and Koha itself was a finalist for the best Open Source Project. Check out the awards.
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