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Where does the internet live? Interactive | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...infrastructure-map-interactive internet interactive technology maps
shared by Jennifer Parsons on 09 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 09 Jul 12
     
    Not necessarily related to anything library-ish, but still pretty cool.  It's easy to forget that the amazing, "invisible" things we can do with technology actually do take up physical space.
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The Book-Burning Campaign That Saved a Public Library - 0 views

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  • Janine Gordon on 12 Jul 12
     
    Pretty amazing and scary how effective it was. It could have so easily offended instead. It does once again show the power of social media.
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RDA Day One Implementation - 0 views

www.loc.gov/...s_rda_implementation_date.html Professional Development
shared by Scott Peterson on 12 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 12 Jul 12
     
    The Library of Congress has decided the start date for implementation of RDA will be March 31, 2013. More information is here: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/news_rda_implementation_date.html
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Berklee College of Music Stan Getz Library Goes Live on Evergreen - 7 views

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shared by Megan Durham on 21 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 21 Aug 12
     
    Just thought this was cool and their catalog looks neat too. Go Evergreen!
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Nine Reasons to Save Public Libraries - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 23 Aug 12
     
    A fairly piece but notable as the reasons are relevant even in today's digital era.
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Ten Tech Commandments for Connected Learners " Online Universities - 1 views

www.onlineuniversities.com/...ommandments-connected-learners library ebooks libraries software
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  • Megan Durham on 24 Aug 12
     
    This was good and something I need to keep in mind. The original Ten Commandments that most people are at least passingly familiar with represent rules for how Jews and Christians should conduct their lives.
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Want to Be a Great Leader? Start Reading - 0 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 22 Aug 12
     
    "Steve Jobs had an 'inexhaustible interest' in William Blake; Nike founder Phil Knight so reveres his library that in it you have to take off your shoes and bow; and Harman Industries founder Sidney Harman called poets 'the original systems thinkers,' quoting freely from Shakespeare and Tennyson."
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Teen Googles his way to new cancer testing method - Your Community - 2 views

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  • Megan Durham on 27 Aug 12
     
    Yay for open access! CBC Global Header Navigation Andraka used free online science papers to invent an award-winning pancreatic cancer testing procedure. (YouTube / Channel Intel) Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka took home top science fair honours this year for the development of a cancer-testing method found to be 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper and 400 times more sensitive than the current gold-medal standard.
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Helicopter Librarian: Expect the Unexpected | Backtalk - 1 views

lj.libraryjournal.com/...expect-the-unexpected-backtalk Professional Development library libraries professional Development
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  • Megan Durham on 29 Aug 12
     
    Very interesting concept. I don't know if I really want people calling me at 2 am to chat about Webpacs. By Felicia A. Smith on I recently read an interesting article titled Make Room for Daddy...And Mommy: Helicopter Parents Are Here, which states, "Helicopter Parents hover over their children interceding as soon as the child faces an unpleasant situation or uncertainty. The parents are 'over-involved' in their child's life."
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Library catalog metadata: Open licensing or public domain? - Creative Commons - 0 views

creativecommons.org/...33768 Professional Development library metadata open access open data OCLC
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  • 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.  
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The information economy is reaching maximum overload - 0 views

tech.fortune.cnn.com/...y-is-reaching-maximum-overload Professional Development
shared by Scott Peterson on 07 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 07 Sep 12
     
    An article I find interesting not so much because it says anything new but that it repeats something that was said even when I was in library school, that with electronic communication we have too much information which leads to burnout or being overwhelmed, and all this time there still has not been a consistent approach to managing or streamlining it.
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A Philosophy of Bold Promotion in Arkansas - 0 views

www.infotoday.com/...ld-Promotion-in-Arkansas.shtml Professional Development library libraries promotion
shared by Megan Durham on 14 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 14 Sep 12
     
    I think we need MOBIUS e-cards or billboards, perhaps?
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Speaking of 3D printers... The World's First 3D-Printed Gun - Slashdot - 0 views

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shared by Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
     
    Normally I'd link to the article itself but the comments on the slashdot page are worth a read. "Will they ban 3D printers?" "Knowing our congress they'll try to ban teaching Geometry in schools... you can't print illegal shapes if you don't know shapes!" Sad but true. These are really the kinds of discussions that we will have to have as a society in the very near term. Libraries should be at the forefront of this discussion - they've always had to fight to protects peoples rights to access information. If they have public access 3D printers it's only a matter of time before the government comes knocking wanting to see the shape files that their patrons have been printing just like they do with circulation records and internet history.
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Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 1 | Martin Paul Eve - 0 views

www.martineve.com/...al-a-step-by-step-guide-part-1 libraries publishing OA open_access journals peer_review
shared by Jennifer Parsons on 19 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • I have proposed that the university library could function as a re-invented university press. However, this guide is intended, over the course of as many parts as I need to be able to write this in manageable chunks, to signpost a third way. This guide is for academics who want to establish their own journals that are:Peer reviewed, in a traditional pre-review modelOpen Access and free in monetary terms for authors and readersPreserved, safe and archived in the event of catastrophe or foldReputable: run by consensus of leaders in a field
  • The board is absolutely crucial. Academic journals work on a system of academic capital; you need respected individuals who are willing to sit on your board, even if they are only lending their name and you end up doing most of the legwork. It should only be a matter of time before academics realise that journal brand isn’t (or shouldn’t be) affiliated to publishers, but rather to the academics who choose to endow a journal with their support.
  • When the first articles start flooding in, you’ll need all the help you can get. These have to be people you can trust to understand the challenges you’re facing. They need to set the bar high for the first issue while also appreciating the difficulties of attracting the big names to start-up journals. Contact people early so that you’re ready to go.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 19 Jul 12
     
    A look at the logistics how an open access journal may be set up-- as you can see, it's both cheap and easy, which which may give pause to some people who would otherwise submit articles.  For that reason, the first thing that Eve stresses is to place high priority on the quality of your board and reviewers, to give your new title some legitimacy.
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The Slap-Your-Head-Simple Secret for Selling More Books - 0 views

selfpublishingteam.com/the-secret-selling-book Professional Development
shared by Scott Peterson on 03 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 03 Aug 12
     
    An interesting article about drumming up interest and using a response and feedback to refine a book before it is published, a process that libraries could help authors with.
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Georgia College Produces Student-Written E-Textbook -- Campus Technology - 0 views

campustechnology.com/...student-written-etextbook.aspx Professional Development library ebooks libraries
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  • Megan Durham on 16 Aug 12
     
    E-Textbooks | News Georgia College Produces Student-Written E-Textbook Nine graduate students in an Advanced Technology for Teachers course at Georgia College have published their own e-textbook, Using Technology in Education, through Apple's iBookstore. The free, downloadable textbook is available on the iPad via iBooks.
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Utah Librarians fear decision about lesbian mom book sets bad precedent | The Salt Lake... - 1 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 05 Jun 12
     
    "In Our Mothers' House" was removed from shelves of elementary school libraries after a group of parents objected to the content. Librarians are being asked to supply names of other books containing gay and lesbian characters.
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Authors win class status in Google books suit - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets... - 0 views

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  • Janine Gordon on 04 Jun 12
     
    Google seems to be in the news again. Article 1 of 2: Thousands of authors can sue Google in a class-action lawsuit over its plan to create the world's largest digital book library, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan also rejected Google's bid to dismiss claims by The Authors Guild and several groups representing photographers and graphic artists, which would have forced their members to sue individually.
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Hill may freeze THOMAS in digital past - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 08 Jun 12
     
    THOMAS is the website the Library of Congress uses for keeping an online record of bills. As the author notes it's not easy to get a picture of what Congress is working on by looking at one bill at a time. It's possible to get a more overall picture by downloading the data and number crunching it, but it looks like the site will not allow bulk downloads of data, only scraping information by way of scripts.
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[Series] Emerging Careers in Librarianship: Data Curation « Hack Library School - 0 views

hacklibschool.wordpress.com/...in-librarianship-data-curation librarians careers data_curation media librarianship Professional Development
shared by Jennifer Parsons on 14 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Data curation is defined as “the active and ongoing management of data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education.” (GSLIS) The volume of scientific data is growing exponentially across all scientific disciplines. This phenomenon has been termed the “data deluge.” The data deluge is now a fundamental characteristic of e-science and “big science,” especially in disciplines such as physics, astronomy, and earth and atmospheric sciences. Moreover, stakeholders are beginning to recognize the value in sharing data assets with each other and in curation of data for re-use over the long term. Competent information professionals are needed to curate this data for future research and education requirements.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 14 Jun 12
     
    After the opening keynote at our conference, this seemed relevant.  I think the need for data curation will become more and more relevant as we move to a paperless society.  Though, given the challenges of what to preserve and how, that day may be long in coming.
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