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Sharla Lair

The Book of the Future - Graphic - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...snider01.html

book future graphic

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  • Sharla Lair on 05 Apr 12
     
    Cute!
anonymous

Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com - 5 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...-its-augmented-reality-glasses

Google augmented reality

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      anonymous on 04 Apr 12
       
      Watch the video!
  • Sharla Lair on 05 Apr 12
     
    That is soooo cool! I want a pair.
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  • Jennifer Parsons on 05 Apr 12
     
    That's amazing! It reminds me of something similar that some groups have been trying to make for blind people-- using audio, instead of visual prompts (e.g., if there's a bus stop 20 feet ahead of the person, the user would hear "Bus stop at Some Number on Such-and-Such Street." 20 feet or so from them). http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815102854.htm
  • anonymous on 05 Apr 12
     
    Took less than 24 hours for some genius to come up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840
  • Sharla Lair on 05 Apr 12
     
    That actually made me LOL! Thanks for that. ;)
adrienne_mobius

Librarians are Completely Awesome - EdTech Researcher - Education Week - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/...ns_are_completely_awesome.html

librarians

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  • adrienne_mobius on 31 Aug 12
     
    If you want to read something that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy about being a librarian... this is it.
Christopher Gould

What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day - 8 views

www.fastcompany.com/...e-do-first-hour-their-work-day

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  • Christopher Gould on 24 Aug 12
     
    I find the "Hour of Power" concept a little new-agey, but I support the ideas of not checking your email in the first hour (Help Desk'ers excepted) and "eat the frog" first thing.
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  • Donna Bacon on 25 Aug 12
     
    OK--I absolutely do NOT agree with this idea. We are a customer service organization. Everyone's day is determined by our customer's requests and they often email us. We should never set aside time to ignore email.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 27 Aug 12
     
    I was amused by the ignoring email in one breath and recommending customer service in the other; was the author not aware of how customer service works these days? Like Christopher, I did like the "eat the frog" concept, though. I also tried a 10 minute version of the "Hour of Power" this morning (light exercise, repeating things I'm grateful for, revving self up for the day), and it has been good for my mood.
  • Debbie Luchenbill on 07 Sep 12
     
    Well, he does say "most of us with jobs that don't require constant on-call awareness can trade e-mail for organization and single-focus work," so it doesn't necessarily apply to everyone. I've heard of the doing the hard tasks first concept, but never called "eat the frog"--that makes it sound a little lighter, somehow!
Megan Durham

Berklee College of Music Stan Getz Library Goes Live on Evergreen - 7 views

liswire.com/...tz-library-goes-live-evergreen

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  • Megan Durham on 21 Aug 12
     
    Just thought this was cool and their catalog looks neat too. Go Evergreen!
  • anonymous on 22 Aug 12
Sharla Lair

Before You Innovate, You First Must Kill Your Company | trainingmag.com - 3 views

www.trainingmag.com/...u-first-must-kill-your-company

Professional Development innovation

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  • Companies are investing major resources in training employees to“think big,” “get inspired,” and nimbly embrace change. Some have made significant progress in the last several years, but most innovation initiatives fall flat. Why? Because too many change initiatives simply add another layer of processes to the to-do lists of already overwhelmed and tired employees. Rather than piling on more, you must begin by getting rid of things rather than continually building on what doesn’t work. In effect, you must “kill” your company.
  • Therein lies the dilemma, because even as we shunt aside innovation in favor of more immediately gratifying business initiatives, most of us know that innovation—the ability to develop novel and useful ideas with a business purpose—is what will really drive growth and carry our organizations into the future. It’s, therefore, imperative that we better balance how much time we spend working internally on ways to make the status quo more efficient with time we spend examining what’s changing externally so we can start questioning the status quo altogether. We need to accept some risk, because innovation requires taking risks. We need to find ways to develop and support a culture that makes room for innovative insight. A company mired in complicated processes and short-term results is simply not in a position to encourage innovation, no matter how many new programs its leaders talk about or implement, or how often they demand innovation from their employees. It just won’t work. To create the company of tomorrow, you must break down the bad habits, silos, and inhibitors that exist today. That’s why you have to kill the company first. It’s probably the most innovative thing a leader can do.
  • The challenge for most companies isn’t how to get people to be more innovative; it’s how to stop paying lip service to innovation and create a structure and culture in which it actually can flourish and deliver results.
  • Sharla Lair on 26 Sep 12
     
    Do not ignore this article!  This article is quite timely with the all of the changes occurring in MOBIUS.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12
     
    Hm. If you see your company on the road, kill it? More seriously, this reminds me of some of the readings I had on library management back in graduate school-- how after awhile, a workflow begins to exist only to preserve itself, not to further the goals of the organization. In order for said organization to remain relevant, it's necessary to occsionally review workflows and procedures to see which ones are working and which aren't-- and can thus be dropped.
  • Sharla Lair on 28 Sep 12
     
    Spot on, Jennifer! Spring cleaning!!! The trick is to not wait too long to do it.
Megan Durham

Teen Googles his way to new cancer testing method - Your Community - 2 views

www.cbc.ca/...new-cancer-testing-method.html

libraries google library

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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.
Megan Durham

Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire's Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth - 6 views

www.wired.com/...brewster-kahle

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  • Megan Durham on 20 Aug 12
     
    I just thought this was interesting. Also how long do you have to work at MOBIUS before you get a sculpture of yourself?
  • Sharla Lair on 20 Aug 12
     
    Hmmm....
Donna Bacon

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

www.readability.com/read

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  • 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.
Megan Durham

New Infographic: Support Your Local Library - Stephen's Lighthouse - 1 views

stephenslighthouse.com/...hic-support-your-local-library

library libraries

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  • Megan Durham on 24 Aug 12
     
    First of all I love Stephen Abram and his blog. Secondly I love info. graphics! This was meant to be! I wish the people of Cole county had access to this before they voted not to give MRRL any $$.
Debbie Luchenbill

An Open Letter to the Look That Slowly Forms On Your Face When I Tell You I'm a Librarian - 1 views

www.mcsweeneys.net/...en-i-tell-you-i-am-a-librarian

librarians humor

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  • Debbie Luchenbill on 14 Sep 12
     
    A little librarian "humor" in McSweeney's. I've certainly had something similar happen on more than one occasion... (I actually think that the "An Open Letter to the People in Charge of Commercials Targeting Women" is even funnier, but it doesn't have anything to do with libraries.)
Sharla Lair

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog - 1 views

www.digital-scholarship.org/...sepw.htm

professional development

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  • Sharla Lair on 07 May 12
     
    Do you need some help finding something to read for professional development? This blog lists current journals and features one article from each.
Megan Durham

The New Supply Chain and Its Implications for Books in Libraries (EDUCAUSE Review) | ED... - 1 views

www.educause.edu/...s-implications-books-libraries

Professional Development library libraries ebooks

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  • Megan Durham on 25 Sep 12
     
    Joseph J. Esposito is an independent management consultant. Kizer Walker is Director of Collection Development at Cornell University Library. Terry Ehling is Associate Director, Project Muse, at the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Jennifer Parsons

California universities to produce 50 open-source textbooks | Ars Technica - 1 views

arstechnica.com/...oduce-50-open-source-textbooks

Professional Development Creative Commons california textbooks ebooks libraries

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  • He signed two bills, one to create the textbooks and the other to establish a California Digital Open Source Library to host them, at a meeting with students in Sacramento.
  • The law specifies that the textbooks must be placed under a Creative Commons license, allowing professors at universities outside of California to use the textbooks in their own classrooms.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12
     
    Interesting.  I wonder what an open-source textbook will be like, or what can be done with it.  Also, the article seems to assume that the information in the textbooks is under the same license.
Scott Peterson

Beloit 20916 mindset list - 5 views

www.beloit.edu/2016

Professional Development

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  • Christopher Gould on 22 Aug 12
     
    Time for everyone to feel really old.....
  • Scott Peterson on 07 Sep 12
     
    Beloit college releases an annual "mindset" list showing how incoming college freshmen see the world and the type of technology and cultural paradigms they consider normal. This year I found it interesting that almost a quarter have suffered some hearing loss, I presume from overuse of iPods and MP3 players. They also haven't seen a need for a bound set of encyclopedias, were born into the world of the Internet, and aren't familiar with camera film or video tape.
  • Megan Durham on 07 Sep 12
     
    What? *she says both because she doesn't feel old and because she has lost hearing due to iPod over use*
Megan Durham

Vintage Ads for Libraries and Reading - 1 views

stephenslighthouse.com/...-ads-for-libraries-and-reading

library libraries vintage ads reading

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  • Megan Durham on 21 Sep 12
     
    This is really just a fun Friday article. These are all pretty cute--except for the one with the little girl ("Bad Seed" much?) its just plain creepy.
adrienne_mobius

Book printed in ink that vanishes after two months - Yahoo! Small Business Advisor - 4 views

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books ink

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  • adrienne_mobius on 25 Jul 12
     
    Weird.
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  • Scott Peterson on 26 Jul 12
     
    Not really, sounds like they're copying the idea from eBooks about allowing access for only a short time.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 27 Jul 12
     
    I think Scott has it on the nose. It's depressing that not even print format can save us from temporary content!
  • Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
     
    I think this highlights the ridiculousness of the ebook issue, but I actually think it's a great idea as it's being presented. "The book that cannot wait" just seems cool to me. Probably not as cool as the book of Snoop Dogg lyrics made out of rolling papers but hey - we can't all be as cool as the D-O-Double-G.
Scott Peterson

Support Your Local Library - 0 views

www.statestats.org/support-your-local-library

Professional Development

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  • Scott Peterson on 30 Aug 12
     
    An interesting and quickly understood set of infographics about supporting libraries, only downside is while they're easily copied to websites there's doesn't seem to be an ability to print them onto posters.
Sharla Lair

How to Turn a City into a Library - The Digital Reader - 0 views

www.the-digital-reader.com/...-to-turn-a-city-into-a-library

Professional Development city library

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  • Sharla Lair on 10 Jul 12
     
    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". 
  • Jennifer Parsons on 11 Jul 12
     
    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.
adrienne_mobius

Note to media: Serve your users, not your platform - Tech News and Analysis - 0 views

gigaom.com/...e-your-users-not-your-platform

media news users

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  • adrienne_mobius on 26 Jul 12
     
    One of the quotes from this post that stands out is "Of course, sifting through vast quantities of information in order to show people the important stuff is what newspapers are supposed to do..." Substitute the word 'librarians' for 'newspapers' and we are talking the same language.
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