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adrienne_mobius

Losing My Revolution: How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost? - 1 views

arxiv.org/1209.3026

social media preservation online content archiving

shared by adrienne_mobius on 12 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 12 Oct 12
     
    Researchers found a nearly linear relationship between time of sharing of the resource and the percentage lost, with a slightly less linear relationship between time of sharing and archiving coverage of the resource. From this model we conclude that after the first year of publishing, nearly 11% of shared resources will be lost and after that we will continue to lose 0.02% per day.
adrienne_mobius

Ebooks Choices and the Soul of Librarianship - 0 views

www.thedigitalshift.com/...-and-the-soul-of-librarianship

ebooks libraries privacy sharing preservation access

shared by adrienne_mobius on 07 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 07 Aug 12
     
    This article points out that many of the values of librarianship (privacy, sharing, preservation) are in conflict with current ebook models. Ebooks are not private ("libraries can't protect data stored with third parties"), ebooks can't be shared ("people can't give their used ebooks to the library"), and ebooks can't be preserved ("we can't preserve files we can't keep"). Even access is not universal ("Does your ebook platform provide content that's compatible with all devices?").
Jennifer Parsons

Library catalog metadata: Open licensing or public domain? - Creative Commons - 0 views

creativecommons.org/...33768

Professional Development library metadata open access open data OCLC

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 31 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 31 Aug 12
     
    Creative Commons weighs in on OCLC's recommendation that its members adopt the Open Data Commons Attribution license (linked in the article) for the catalog metadata they share in OCLC.  While CC commends OCLC for encouraging the sharing of data, it points out that a license, even an open data license, can prove problematic when it comes to reusing and recombining data found within OCLC with other sources.  
adrienne_mobius

3 Big Privacy Issues Of 2013 - And What You Can Do About Them - 1 views

readwrite.com/...and-what-you-can-do-about-them

privacy transparency data sharing QR codes

shared by adrienne_mobius on 28 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 28 Dec 12
     
    Major privacy issues that everyone should pay attention to in 2013: transparency, data sharing, and dodgy QR codes.
Scott Peterson

PaperTabs - 0 views

www.hml.queensu.ca/papertabm

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 08 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 08 Feb 13
     
    An interesting technical development of a flexible "PaperTab" that allows both handling of documents like paper but also allows each "tab" (equivalent to a sheet) to to be used like a touchscreen and to share data by tapping them together. Intriguing, but I noticed a computer cable connected to each Tab which means several would require a mess of wiring, and the display contrast wasn't impressive.
anonymous

Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food | Video on TED.com - 1 views

www.ted.com/...jamie_oliver.html

shared by anonymous on 09 Apr 12 - Cached
  • anonymous on 09 Apr 12
     
    It's not work related, but since we're all friends here and most of us have kids I wanted to share it here. You all know where I'm at when it comes to food and health but after watching this I'm compelled to go talk to the principal at Grant, share this video, and see if there's anything I can do to help.
  • anonymous on 09 Apr 12
     
    Also, there's quite a few other really great TED talks about food, and food as it related to kids.
  • anonymous on 09 Apr 12
anonymous

Google Drive cloud storage launch planned for early April, sources tell GigaOm | The Verge - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...orage-launch-early-april-rumor

google cloud storage

shared by anonymous on 14 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 14 Apr 12
     
    I'm just learning of this today. Apparently they are only offering 1GB of free storage, which puts them at half of what Dropbox offers for free. That said, Dropbox is painfully slow at upload and download and Google storage is insanely cheap. I just bought 20GB of storage for my photo archive and it costs me a WHOPPING $5/year - and the extra storage is shared by all my Google apps which I'm guessing will include Drive. 
Scott Peterson

IUG Conference - 1 views

innovativeusers.org/iug2012-program-search

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 27 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 27 Apr 12
     
    I couldn't find a way to link directly to presentations or their materials. Probably the most interesting sessions I attended were: Solving the Complexities of Ebook Record Management in Millennium INN-Reach: Implementing Peer to Peer Functionality Between two INN-Reach Systems The Ebooks presentation was about checking for duplication, quality control, and making sure all the records an institution paid for are present and have valid links. There were a lot of good techniques that could be relayed to our members as a group of best practices. The Peer-To-Peer INN-Reach is a new product that allows two INN-Reach systems to share materials as if they were one. It was a done in Ohio as a response after one consortium added two public libraries and began to see their single INN-Reach server overwhelmed. From what I could tell it works well, with each INN-Reach server able to retain it's own loan rules and identity, but did require all the libraries and pickup locations to be added to both servers, which quickly would present patrons with a very long list of libraries to choose from. I wasn't very clear where the super-union webpac resided; whether on it's own server or produced from both of them. The users that were present seemed happy with it.
Janine Gordon

Missouri State University ponders adding psychology institute - Columbia Missourian - 0 views

www.columbiamissourian.com/...rs-adding-psychology-institute

shared by Janine Gordon on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • Janine Gordon on 22 May 12
     
    I'm not sure this shared last time I tried it. Sorry for any duplication.
adrienne_mobius

Very Pinteresting!: The hot social network is taking educators by storm - The Digital Shift - 0 views

www.thedigitalshift.com/...d-is-taking-educators-by-storm

Pinterest

shared by adrienne_mobius on 06 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 06 Jul 12
     
    "Everyone's buzzing about Pinterest, a new social media tool that connects people through the things they like-but for a growing number of users in classrooms and media centers, it's fast becoming a powerful resource where teachers and students share images, store lesson plans, read about current events, watch video clips, and collect their favorite apps."
Scott Peterson

Kopimism - 0 views

kopimistsamfundet.us

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 16 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 16 Aug 12
     
    The Church of "Copy-Me-ism," which holds file sharing as a sacred rite. Rather than having a dogma they have values. I'm unclear how much this is a sort of in-joke like the "Church of the Subgenius" or if it intends more cynically to circumvent copyright laws and rulings by declaring them against their religious sacraments.
Scott Peterson

Interactive books for iPad, iPhone, and the web - 0 views

www.inkling.com

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 02 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 02 Aug 13
     
    An interesting web vendor that is offering interactive textbooks, which is in some ways the repackaging of the original "multimedia" CD-ROM's of the early 1990's, but now offered as a "book." They claim to be partnered with McGraw-Hill and Pearson, and it looks like a user needs to have a perpetual account to use their material although offline access is allowed. Some features such as streaming video and music are separate from the book so they are not true stand alone files, and purchasing a book as an app is currently only for a handful of titles. The list price of several of the books is very steep, and my main concern is how well the multimedia is integrated with the text and if there is any ability to share or transfer a license, which I can't find listed in their website FAQ.
adrienne_mobius

Privacy And Why It Really Matters | Thought Works - 0 views

markopolojarvi.com/privacy.html

online privacy

shared by adrienne_mobius on 06 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 06 Dec 13
     
    "There's two things you can do right now to lose most of your privacy. Share everything that comes to mind on Facebook and search everything that comes to mind on Google. I don't want to single out Google or Facebook but they're the best representatives of two common ways for online companies to commercialise you."
Megan Durham

As Libraries Go Digital, Sharing of Data Is at Odds With Tradition of Privacy - 0 views

chronicle.com/...135514

Professional Development security library libraries ebooks technology

shared by Megan Durham on 06 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 06 Nov 12
     
    Harvard librarians learned that lesson when they set up Twitter feeds broadcasting titles of books being checked out from campus libraries. It seemed harmless enough-a typical tweet read, "Reconstructing American Law by Bruce A. Ackerman," with a link to the book's library catalog entry-but the social-media experiment turned out to be more provocative than library staffers imagined.
Megan Durham

New Teen Place opening at Schaumburg Library - 0 views

www.chicagotribune.com/...place-20121122,0,6492476.story

Professional Development library technology teen

shared by Megan Durham on 20 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 20 Nov 12
     
    This teen space was too cool not to share! They have a green screen and a recording space!
Jennifer Parsons

What is metadata? A Christmas themed exploration. | Information Culture, Scientific American Blog Network - 1 views

blogs.scientificamerican.com/...a-christmas-themed-exploration

metadata Professional Development library libraries

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 10 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Broadly speaking, metadata is simply a structured description of something else. The most popular example of metadata comes from the library catalog. Each book has a title, author, call number, publisher, ISBN etc. listed in the online catalog. These elements comprise the book’s metadata, and there are rules to make sure that things are standardized.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 10 Jan 13
     
    Includes one of the best brief descriptions of metadata that I've found. The author also, using example photos, illustrates the importance of metadata and its relevance to a material being used.
  • Sharla Lair on 11 Jan 13
     
    Nice! Thanks for sharing Jennifer.
Sharla Lair

LibraryBox - 2 views

jasongriffey.net/librarybox

Professional Development technology Libraries sharing open source portable

shared by Sharla Lair on 01 May 13 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 01 May 13
     
    This is starting to take off in some libraries.
Scott Peterson

Who Really Owns Your Personal Data? - 0 views

www.details.com/...ng-biodata-on-apps-and-devices

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 02 May 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 02 May 13
     
    An article about a trend today to use apps that track and record behavior and wearable fitness devices, and who owns the data those devices store in the cloud. I also found it interesting there was little analysis of how the data could be severely skewed by age and demographics; that the behaviors and data stored could be from people who don't care or want it spread it to the world.
Jennifer Parsons

myliblog: Publishers ask for business models and don't know what a library is - 0 views

jaslarue.blogspot.com/...k-for-business-models-and.html

Professional Development copyright libraries publishers business models

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 11 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • I recently conducted a focus group with local authors, and put this proposition to them: * Would you consider DONATING a single copy of your ebook file to the library if we agree to... * Preserve, review, recommend, and digitally display it; * Buy an extra copy for every four people who are waiting for it; * Put a "click here to buy" button in our catalog, with the understanding that you'll share in the revenue of the sale (say, we take 10% AND YOU GET 90%). Guess what? They said, "Yes." Are we talking to the right people?
  • Jennifer Parsons on 11 Oct 12
     
    Since ALA President Maureen Sullivan threw down the proverbial gauntlet to publishers and they've picked it up, there's been a lot of inspired responses.  Jamie LaRue has a radical one himself-- circumvent the publishers, and ask the authors how they'd like their electronic books to be distributed. It's a bold proposition (posing the question, "Are publishers necessary?"), but certainly a way for libraries to work with authors to maximize their profits.
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chronicle.com - Readability - 5 views

www.readability.com/read

shared by Donna Bacon on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
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