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Carla Shinn

The Jacket Designer's Challenge: To Capture a Book by Its Cover - 21 views

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  • Carla Shinn on 20 Oct 14
     
    "Peter Mendelsund estimates he's designed "somewhere between 600 and 1,000 book covers," ranging from Crime and Punishment to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.... Now Mendelsund has designed the covers for two new books of his own. Cover is a collection of hundreds of his book covers, including many that were rejected, along with commentaries on his technique. What We See When We Read is about how words give rise to images in our minds." Article and podcast
beth gourley

Gutenberg 2.0 | Harvard Magazine May-Jun 2010 - 10 views

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  • Her staff offers a complete suite of information services to students and faculty members, spread across four teams. One provides content or access to it in all its manifestations; another manages and curates information relevant to the school’s activities; the third creates Web products that support teaching, research, and publication; and the fourth group is dedicated to student and faculty research and course support. Kennedy sees libraries as belonging to a partnership of shared services that support professors and students. “Faculty don’t come just to libraries [for knowledge services],” she points out. “They consult with experts in academic computing, and they participate in teaching teams to improve pedagogy. We’re all part of the same partnership and we have to figure out how to work better together.”
  • It’s not that we don’t need libraries or librarians,” he continues, “it’s that what we need them for is slightly different. We need them to be guides in this increasingly complex world of information and we need them to convey skills that most kids actually aren’t getting at early ages in their education. I think librarians need to get in front of this mob and call it a parade, to actually help shape it.”
  • Her staff offers a complete suite of information services to students and faculty members, spread across four teams. One provides content or access to it in all its manifestations; another manages and curates information relevant to the school’s activities; the third creates Web products that support teaching, research, and publication; and the fourth group is dedicated to student and faculty research and course support. Kennedy sees libraries as belonging to a partnership of shared services that support professors and students. “Faculty don’t come just to libraries [for knowledge services],” she points out. “They consult with experts in academic computing, and they participate in teaching teams to improve pedagogy. We’re all part of the same partnership and we have to figure out how to work better together.”
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      beth gourley on 24 May 10
       
      Good summary of differentiating library services and the need to accommodate staffing. Ultimatley makes for the teaching partnership.
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  • “The digital world of content is going to be overwhelming for librarians for a long time, just because there is so much,” she acknowledges. Therefore, librarians need to teach students not only how to search, but “how to think critically about what they have found…what they are missing… and how to judge their sources.” 
  • But making comparisons between digital and analog libraries on issues of cost or use or preservation is not straightforward. If students want to read a book cover to cover, the printed copy may be deemed superior with respect to “bed, bath and beach,” John Palfrey points out. If they just want to read a few pages for class, or mine the book for scattered references to a single subject, the digital version’s searchability could be more appealing; alternatively, students can request scans of the pages or chapter they want to read as part of a program called “scan and deliver” (in use at the HD and other Harvard libraries) and receive a link to images of the pages via e-mail within four days. 
  • (POD) would allow libraries to change their collection strategies: they could buy and print a physical copy of a book only if a user requested it. When the user was done with the book, it would be shelved. It’s a vision of “doing libraries ‘just in time’ rather than ‘just in case,’” says Palfrey. (At the Harvard Book Store on Massachusetts Avenue, a POD machine dubbed Paige M. Gutenborg is already in use. Find something you like in Google’s database of public-domain books—perhaps one provided by Harvard—and for $8 you can own a copy, printed and bound before your wondering eyes in minutes. Clear Plexiglas allows patrons to watch the process—hot glue, guillotine-like trimming blades, and all—until the book is ejected, like a gumball, from a chute at the bottom.)
  • We’re rethinking the physical spaces to accommodate more of the type of learning that is expected now, the types of assignments that faculty are making, that have two or three students huddled around a computer working together, talking.” 
  • Libraries are also being used as social spaces,
  • In terms of research, students are asking each other for information more now than in the past, when they might have asked a librarian.
  • On the contrary, the whole history of books and communication shows that one medium does not displace another.
  • it’s not just a service organization. I would even go so far as to call it the nervous system of our corporate body.”
  • beth gourley on 24 May 10
     
    "This defines a new role for librarians as database experts and teachers, while the library becomes a place for learning about sophisticated search for specialized information." "How do we make information as useful as possible to our community now and over a long period of time?"
GoEd Online

10 Book-to-Movie Reviews for English Teachers - 1 views

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  • GoEd Online on 24 Jul 12
     
    We've all heard, "don't judge a book by its cover," but have you heard, "don't judge a book by its movie?"
amby kdp

The Magic Of Thinking Big: Achieve Whatever You Dream For - a book by Megan Coulter - 0 views

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  • amby kdp on 22 Jan 16
     
    A great book which covers the basic and most important things that proves that you can achieve whatever you dream for, just by thinking big. It will teach you principles on using the law of attraction in a way that you can have positive thinking and get whatever you desire in life. In this book, you will get to know that successful people reach the top only with their beliefs. Step by step, simple
Carla Shinn

Book Cover Design: 50 Amazing Covers That You Will Want to Pick Up - Design School - 25 views

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  • Carla Shinn on 08 Mar 15
     
    Fascinating article from the blog for the Canva Design School
Carla Shinn

Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover: Tech-Savvy Teens Remain Fans of Print Books - 12 views

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  • Carla Shinn on 21 Dec 14
     
    With today's rapidly evolving technology and ever-present social media changing the way consumers are connecting with the written word, it should come as no surprise that today's teens are finding and consuming content differently from previous generations. But while we typically associate these youthful consumers with being early adopters of new technology and digital content platforms, the reading habits of those aged 13-17 are a mix of old and new.
amby kdp

The Magic Of Thinking Big: Achieve Whatever You Dream For: Megan Coulter: 9781511895927... - 0 views

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  • amby kdp on 15 Mar 16
     
    The Magic Of Thinking Big: Achieve Whatever You Dream For [Megan Coulter] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. “The Magic of Thinking Big: Achieve Whatever You Dream For” A great book which covers the basic and most important things that proves that you can achieve whatever you dream for
Yvonne Barrett

Directory of open access journals - 9 views

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  • Yvonne Barrett on 11 Nov 09
     
    Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4422 journals in the directory. Currently 1690 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 323198 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Carla Shinn

Banned Books Week - 14 views

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  • Carla Shinn on 27 Sep 13
     
    Banned Books Week from Open Road Integrated Media Nice timeline - Click on a cover for a story behind the book. Banned Books Week Smore https://smore.com/vb83
Cathy Oxley

Recovering the Classics - 13 views

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  • Cathy Oxley on 05 Mar 16
     
    New classic book covers
Donna Baumbach

Myebook - get it out there! - 0 views

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  • Donna Baumbach on 27 Nov 09
     
    myebook aims to revolutionise the way we create, publish and share ebook content online. Built on a feature-rich social platform, complete with powerful, browser-based, builder software, and a slick reader environment, there's never been an easier way for anyone and everyone to 'get it out there'. With myebook.com, we've made it possible for anyone to upload, or create from scratch, beautifully simple or adventurously complex page designs and covers online, in no time. What's more, you can publish your book with a single button and release it to the world before the (virtual) ink's dry! You can create as many publications as you want. And it's all free.
Deven Black

Facsimile Dust Jackets L.L.C.: Home Page - 11 views

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  • Deven Black on 22 Nov 11
     
    35,000 facsimile dust jackets for perusal and sale.
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