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Rhondda Powling

Digital Collections and Services: Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collectio... - 0 views

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    You can explore (US) historical pictures, maps, and more in the digital collections from the Library of Congress. The option to download of images is available. Any citation must be created by the user. "The LOC concentrates on its most rare collections and those unavailable anywhere else. The services are a gateway to a growing treasury of digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books, as well as "born digital" materials such as Web sites. In addition, the Library maintains and promotes the use of digital library standards and provides online research and reference service"
Rhondda Powling

Improbable libraries: unusual places to bury your head in a book… | Books | T... - 0 views

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    "Regardless of the ultimate fate of the printed book, reports of the imminent death of the library as a physical entity seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Bookless digital public libraries are already starting to appear, the first in San Antonio, Texas, where lines of bookshelves have been replaced by e-readers, computer workstations, laptops and tablets. The simple truth is that, like Roald Dahl's character Matilda, people like going to libraries. Indeed, going to the library is like getting a pay rise, according to a survey conducted in 2014 by the UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The survey, which attempted to quantify how happy different activities make us, showed that while dancing and swimming nearly always cheer us up, so does going to the library. "
Rhondda Powling

Libraries Lend Record Numbers of Ebooks and Audiobooks in 2015 | Digital Book World - 0 views

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    "2015 was a big year for libraries' digital efforts, with a record number of readers borrowing ebooks and digital audiobooks. Overdrive, the leading supplier of digital content to libraries and schools, reported Tuesday that, in 2015, readers borrowed more than 169 million ebooks. This marked a 24-percent increase over 2014. There was also a notable spike in audiobook usage, which saw a faster growth rate than ebook library borrowing"
Rhondda Powling

Transforming the Library Profession | American Libraries Magazine - 0 views

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    "Today our experienced professionals and new library workers must find their passion around people to build an educated and involved citizenry and ensure digital and economic opportunity for all. Library professionals are the essential element of strong schools, colleges, universities, and public communities."
Rhondda Powling

Report Checks out Library Trends -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    "Research and academic libraries are moving quickly in many directions in response to expectations of patrons who are growing accustomed to the consumer technology experience and digitization of content. Among the trends that are redefining institutional libraries: a push for mobile content delivery, more focus on managing research data and rethinking the use of library spaces. These and other trends were highlighted in a new, freely available report published by the NMC, a community of experts in educational technology."
Rhondda Powling

Let's Make | A guide for promoting making in libraries - 0 views

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    "This guide is the result of a collaboration among a group of individuals who were grantees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Libraries initiative. We came together as a voluntary project group to share our research, insights and experiences from Chile, Poland, Ukraine and other countries about the value of making in public libraries. We have compiled this short guide to share our learnings about: the case to support making in libraries; different services libraries can provide to encourage making; lists of equipment, software and other tools you can use to create physical or digital content; tips and ideas on how to implement maker activities; as well as links to other maker spaces, resources, and much more"
Camilla Elliott

American Museum of Natural History Digital Special Collections | About - 0 views

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    Digital Special Collections of the American Museum of Natural History's Research Library provides access to our rich collections of digitized archival photographic images, art and memorabilia images and Rare Book Collection illustrations
Rhondda Powling

5 easy ways to introduce new users to your digital library | OverDrive Blogs - 0 views

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    From Overdrive blog - some ideas for introducing library clientele to your digital collection
Rhondda Powling

Fact or fiction? Libraries can thrive in the Digital Age - 1 views

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    "Today's school library uses an increasing number of digital resources to supplement a print collection that is moving more toward fiction and literary non-fiction. Supplemental resources, including streaming video, online resources, subscription databases, audiobooks, e-books, and even games, round out the new collections. Despite the best efforts of even the hardest-working librarians in the best-funded libraries, there are many challenges to going digital." Links to free, full text and PDF versions
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OCLC WorldShare Management Services - 0 views

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    First cooperative library management systems for libraries. Based on WorldCat. 300+ million records. Trove resources - WorldCat - Worldshare. Works through single search Discovery layer. Connect to free and purchased records. Integrate from Overdrive and other digital resource products.
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    First cooperative library management systems for libraries. Based on WorldCat. 300+ million records. Trove resources - WorldCat - Worldshare. Works through single search Discovery layer. Connect to free and purchased records. Integrate from Overdrive and other digital resource products.
Rhondda Powling

Give eBooks a Physical Presence: Sacramento PL Shares Marketing Ideas | OverDrive Blogs - 0 views

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    Many are askin "What's the best way promote the library's digital collection to patrons visiting the physical branch?   This post shares some ideas used by staff members at Sacramento Public Library who came up with a clever way to connect its physical and digital collections. " The Electronic resources librarian Amy Calhoun explains how Sacramento PL has improved discovery of eBook titles among patrons visiting the library branches"
Camilla Elliott

Do People Need Libraries in the Digital Age? - Speakeasy - WSJ - 0 views

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    A public library perspective but an interesting discussion on libraries generally which should be heeded by all in the industry
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Softlink Library Management Systems | Library Software | - 0 views

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    Library management system with the ability to distribute digital content. Australian distributor of Overdrive.
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    Library management system with the ability to distribute digital content. Australian distributor of Overdrive.
Rhondda Powling

The British Library MS Viewer - 0 views

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    A compilation of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks - Codex Arundel - was digitized by the British Library and made available to the public. Whilst Leonardo never published his notes, you can look through 570 digitized pages of Codex Arundel here. For hundreds of years, the huge collection of manuscripts remained mostly unseen. After Leonardo's death in France, writes the British Library, his student Francesco Melzi "brought many of his manuscripts and drawings back to Italy. Melzi's heirs, who had no idea of the importance of the manuscripts, gradually disposed of them." Nonetheless, over 5,000 pages of notes "still exist in Leonardo's 'mirror writing', from right to left." These notebooks contain da Vinci's "visions of the aeroplane, the helicopter, the parachute, the submarine and the car. It was more than 300 years before many of his ideas were improved upon."
Rhondda Powling

Bookless library opened by new US university | Books | theguardian.com - 0 views

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    "Florida's Polytechnic University is entirely digital and has no print books at all. This enormous facility promises to make 'many more books available for the students' in digital form."
Rhondda Powling

What to expect from libraries in the 21st century: Pam Sandlian Smith at TEDxMileHigh -... - 0 views

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    "Published on 16 Dec 2013 Why do we still need libraries in the age of digital, real-time information? In this emotional talk, Pam Sandlian Smith shows how she works to use the library as a hub for community-based knowledge creation and discourse"
Rhondda Powling

World Digital Library Home - 0 views

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    The World Digital Library hosts more than 10,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world. It is sponsored by UNESCO and the mission is to promote the study and understanding of cultures. The WDL can be searched by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of resource. There are a lot of maps and images as well as text documents.
Camilla Elliott

Library War Service slides collection now online and browsable | American Library Assoc... - 0 views

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    While the battles, uniforms, and weapons that made up a World War I serviceman's life are very well documented in the history books, the day-to-day monotony of a soldier's life doesn't often get as much attention. The ALA Archives has recently migrated our collection of digitized lantern slides from World War I into the CONTENTdm system, which shows one way these men filled their downtime: reading.
Rhondda Powling

school_library_impact.jpg (2508×4029) - 0 views

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    The infographic presents research highlights from all of Library Research Service's (LRS) school library impact studies. There are 2 versions available - one for digital viewing and one for printing.
Rhondda Powling

Glenthorne Library: Students & Their Digital Footprint - 0 views

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    "One teacher's plan for teaching students about being safe online and their digital footprint. The goal is to get them thinking about what they put online and the consequences those posts can have." Some goof videos and ideas here
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