Group items matching

in title, tags, annotations or url

Really cool article that looks at : "Espresso Book Machines can offer two kinds of services: print-on-demand of any title available through the EspressNet database (which includes Google Books, the Internet Archive, all of Ingram's partnered publishers, and more) and self-­publishing services for authors and small publishers."

I sincerely love the idea of these book machines and have ever since they've become available. I don't know why every library doesn't have one (aside from cost).

Most exciting article I've read about responsive web design!

Move over OverDrive here comes 3M. Here is my favorite quote : "They're (patrons) able to do it (download books) on their own. [3M] is doing something right." This is huge as someone who worked at B&N for 4 years usability is a big deal. B&N is where people came to troubleshoot and the biggest headache was OverDrive (I hear its easier now). Also it'll be nice having someone else in the e-book market for libraries.

"Either the books must go, or they must swallow us up. I calculate that, take the whole world over, from eighty to one hundred thousand books appear every year; at an average of a thousand copies, this makes more than a hundred millions of books, the majority of which contain only the wildest extravagances or the most chimerical follies, and propagate only prejudice and error. Our social condition forces us to hear many stupid things every day. A few more or less do not amount to very great suffering in the end; but what happiness not to be obliged to read them, and to be able at last to close our eyes upon the annihilation of printed things!"

There are some amazingly awesome buildings pictured here! I'm thinking we need to road trip/fly to some of these.

A subject after my own heart (and a possible dream job).

Not necessarily a library video, but an interesting idea.  By encouraging the audience to approach information the way they approach food (i.e. by emphasizing quality over quantity, as it's impossible to eat all the food), the focus of our information world goes from "information overload" to "information consumption." 

Nice white paper on entrepreneurialism in libraries. 

Interesting project in Austria. They placed 70 QR codes around the city each leading to a particular ebook or mp3 that can be downloaded for free.  The blog states, "This project is in effect giving digital content a finite location, thus removing one of the key aspects that separates paper books from ebooks". 

I wonder if the posts are in places with literary or historical significance-- e.g., a QR code near the former home of a famous author, leading to excerpts or readings from his or her books. I can see a huge potential for museums here, actually. For example, at the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, a QR code can be posted to information or collections on the Dred Scott Decision. Or here in Columbia, QR codes posted in the Red Campus can pull up copies of historical documents on the 1892 fire.

Well, now I know where all our rain went. It all ended up at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, where eight feet of water covered the library's lower level.

I had some friends who live up in Duluth and her pictures at the time were crazy. The zoo flooded and there were animals everywhere too. There were some pics of a seal swimming in a gutter, but they rounded them all up eventually.

Redbox for books. I'm mixed on it, I like the ease of it but let's not get rid of libraries.

Here's an idea for our server coffee tables we keep talking about. We can get cards from each institution/library and put it on top of our table. How many do you think we can fit on a server?

An article that notes the dwindling demand for general information specialists at the Free Library of Phildadelphia, which used to field 400 phone calls a day among a rotating staff of 14 librarians, and is now done to 1 librarian and 9 assistants who deal with only a handful of phone calls and more often do front line customer service and technical support work, with many information requests now handled by online chat.

Florida State University librarians describe a program devised by FSU to encourage faculty to use open access publishing. I like how they focused just as much on educating their library staff and giving them the time and space needed to then go and open recruit faculty, and the resources to keep up the interest.

That's...pretty neat, actually.  If one were in my neighborhood, I'd use it.

A collection of interesting things on the web via MOBIUS staff. So this is my first posting so we'll see if this works. I thought this article was a nice little summary of the virtual conference. Also we need a Mario lamp!

You bookmarked the diigo page and not the article ;)

Of course I meant to do that. I think this is a really great resource and we should use it some time . . .oh wait we already do. I tried reposting we'll see if that works.

This Super Mario Bros.-themed lamp (which cha-chings when punched) was one of many ideas featured at the recent ALA Virtual Conference, where the topic of makerspaces was discussed. The Mario-themed, cube-shaped lamp cha-chings when punched. "That light was awesome," said a Texas participant in the online chat sidebar.

Can we get that lamp for the office?

I was thinking the same thing! It would look great in the living room.

Interesting-- this is a very simple sharing site with a Yahoo! Answers/ message board (at least that's what old people who came of age in the 90s like me call it) sort of feel, but I like it. It's straightforward and easy to navigate.