The Spectator Project is an interactive hypermedia environment for
the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and
the eighteenth-century periodical in general.
Dempsey postulates that information discovery now happens outside of library services, and how libraries could act in order to bring users back into the library.
Steve Lawson's blog: "the Humanities Liaison Librarian for Tutt Library at Colorado College,
Colorado Springs. I work with the faculty of the Humanities Division to
do collection development in those subjects; I teach bibliographic
instruction for humanities classes; and I work with humanities faculty
when they have questions about using the library or library policy.
General reference duty at the ref. desk is also part of my job.
Beyond that, I am interested in using the web to bring better, more
useful, and more usable services to our students and faculty."
There’s a crucial part of interface design that vexes me and it’s iconography, the discipline of crafting highly communicative, aesthetically efficient pictorial symbols in miniature. It takes a special combination of artistry, patience and visual economy in order to get it right,
Susan S. Lukesh discusses the long-term desire for scholars to have all the information on one subject — in this case prehistoric pottery — gathered together for easy access in relation to possibilities that are available today. The subject is far broader than pottery and directly relates to the critical issue of modern scholarship and access to raw data underlying all analyses presented in paper and digital publications today.
This is a forthright exchange between two brilliant, deeply penetrating scholars, and it well encapsulates some of the most significant conundrums raised by the Google Book Search project.
FaceTag is a working prototype of a semantic collaborative tagging tool conceived for bookmarking information architecture resources. It aims to show how the flat keywords space of tags can be effectively mixed with a richer faceted classification scheme to improve the system information architecture.
The blogosphere has grown more than 100 times the size it was 2003, with Technorati tracking its 50 millionth blog, according to David Sifry's latest "State of the Blogosphere" report. However, Sifry, CEO of Technorati, said in his report that he thinks it's unlikely the number of blogs will continue to double every six months, as they have for about two years.
My install process went like this: download and burn the Ubuntu disk image to a CD. Turn on the computer with the Ubuntu CD in the CD drive. The computer boots Ubuntu from the CD. You have the option to run it this way or install it to the hard drive. You have the option to install it on a partition (and keep Windows also) or just erase the drive and install Ubuntu as the only operating system.
he book is dying as the opus of knowledge. More and more they'll be known as a physical archive interesting mostly to specialists, and will no longer be the keepers of current and / or mainstream knowledge. All of that will be given to computers, databases, websites, companies
Sometimes I anally use Bluebook citation in my school notes. So when I pulled a quote from Wikipedia regarding a case, I needed to cite it. Wikipedia provides guidance on this:
This site is intended to aid Orthodox clergy, seminarians,
and
chanters in preparing to conduct the rich and beautiful worship
services of the Orthodox Church.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science provides links to a variety of LIS lectures and presentations. Highlights include:
"The Genius of Cataloging" (Francis Miksa)
"The Google Library: 10 Questions" (Siva Vaidhyanathan)
"The Network Rewrites the Library" (Lorcan Dempsey)
"The Secret History of Open Source Software Practices" (Thomas Haigh).