Skip to main content

Home/ teacher-librarians/ Group items matching "company" in title, tags, annotations or url

Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or url

Sort By: Relevance | Date Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Catherine Graham-Smith

Reading Quotes - A Great Collection of Quotes Relating to Reading - The Literacy CompanyThe Literacy Company - 21 views

www.readfaster.com/readingquotes.asp

shared by Catherine Graham-Smith on 06 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Catherine Graham-Smith on 29 Feb 12
     
    If you are looking to inspire reading in your library, here are a list of quotes.
Robin Cicchetti

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 11 views

chronicle.com/...125044

ebooks digital reading etextbooks

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).
  • Why electronic copies? Well, they're far cheaper to produce than printed texts, making a bulk purchase more feasible
  • An Indiana company called Courseload hopes to make the model more widespread, by serving as a broker for colleges willing to impose the requirement on students. And it is not alone.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • The real champions of the change are the college officials signing the deals.
  • "Our game plan is to bring the cost of textbooks down by 75 to 80 percent."
  • In its standard model, Flat World offers free access to its textbooks while students are online. If students want to download a copy to their own computers, they must pay $24.95 for a PDF (a print edition costs about $30)
  • Robin Cicchetti on 27 Oct 10
     
    Unusually informative article on the state of digital texts in 2010. Short and concise. Good info for librarian tech leaders.
beth gourley

The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

www.nybooks.com/21514

library

shared by beth gourley on 25 May 08 - Cached
  • four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
  • around 4000 BC, humans learned to write.
  • the invention of writing was the most important technological breakthrough in the history of humanity
  • ...62 more annotations...
  • second technological shift when the codex replaced the scroll sometime soon after the beginning of the Christian era. By the third century AD, the codex—that is, books with pages that you turn as opposed to scrolls that you roll
  • eventually included differentiated words (that is, words separated by spaces
  • other reader's aids
  • codex, in turn, was transformed by the invention of printing with movable type in the 1450s.
  • technology of printing did not change for nearly four centuries, but the reading public grew larger and larger, thanks to improvements in literacy, education, and access to the printed word.
  • fourth great change, electronic communication
  • movable type to the Internet, 524 years;
  • writing to the codex, 4,300 years;
  • codex to movable type, 1,150 years;
  • would argue that the new information technology should force us to rethink the notion of information itself.
  • Internet to search engines, nineteen years
  • search engines to Google's algorithmic relevance ranking, seven years;
  • continued at such a rate as to seem both unstoppable and incomprehensible.
  • continuity I have in mind has to do with the nature of information itself or, to put it differently, the inherent instability of texts.
  • every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that information has always been unstable.
    • beth gourley
      beth gourley on 25 May 08
       
      premise
  • pace of change seems breathtaking:
  • news has always been an artifact and that it never corresponded exactly to what actually happened.
  • News is not what happened but a story about what happened.
  • aving learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary sources for knowing what really happened
  • newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events
  • We live in a time of unprecedented accessibility to information that is increasingly unreliable. Or do we?
  • as messages that are constantly being reshaped in the process of transmission
  • Instead of firmly fixed documents, we must deal with multiple, mutable texts. By studying them skeptically on our computer screens, we can learn how to read our daily newspaper more effectively—and even how to appreciate old books.
  • Unbelievers used to dismiss Henry Clay Folger's determination to accumulate copies of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare as the mania of a crank.
  • When Folger's collection grew beyond three dozen copies, his friends scoffed at him as Forty Folio Folger.
  • eighteen of the thirty-six plays in the First Folio had never before been printed
  • only two were reprinted without change from earlier quarto editions
  • extual stability never existed in the pre-Internet eras.
  • Piracy was so pervasive in early modern Europe that best-sellers could not be blockbusters as they are today
  • They abridged, expanded, and reworked texts as they pleased, without worrying about the authors' intentions.
  • question in perspective by discussing two views of the library, which I would describe as grand illusions—grand and partly true.
  • o put it positively, there is something to be said for both visions, the library as a citadel and the Internet as open space.
  • We have come to the problems posed by Google Book Search.
  • Google proposal seemed to offer a way to make all book learning available to all people, or at least those privileged enough to have access to the World Wide Web
  • will open up possibilities for research involving vast quantities of data, which could never be mastered without digitization
  • Electronic Enlightenment, a project sponsored by the Voltaire Foundation of Oxford
  • scholars will be able to trace references to individuals, books, and ideas throughout the entire network of correspondence that undergirded the Enlightenment
  • notably American Memory sponsored by the Library of Congress[1] and the Valley of the Shadow created at the University of Virginia[2] —have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of databases on this scale
  • will make research libraries obsolete
  • 2. Although Google pursued an intelligent strategy by signing up five great libraries, their combined holdings will not come close to exhausting the stock of books in the United States.
  • 1. According to the most utopian claim of the Googlers, Google can put virtually all printed books on-line.
  • If Google missed this book, and other books like it, the researcher who relied on Google would never be able to locate certain works of great importance.
  • On the contrary, Google will make them more important than ever. To support this view, I would like to organize my argument around eight points.
  • For books under copyright, however, Google will probably display only a few lines at a time, which it claims is legal under fair use.
  • 3. Although it is to be hoped that the publishers, authors, and Google will settle their dispute, it is difficult to see how copyright will cease to pose a problem.
  • But nothing suggests that it will take account of the standards prescribed by bibliographers, such as the first edition to appear in print or the edition that corresponds most closely to the expressed intention of the author.
  • Google defines its mission as the communication of information—right now, today; it does not commit itself to conserving texts indefinitely.
  • it has not yet ventured into special collections, where the rarest works are to be found. And of course the totality of world literature—all the books in all the languages of the world—lies far beyond Google's capacity to digitize
  • Electronic enterprises come and go. Research libraries last for centuries. Better to fortify them than to declare them obsolete
  • 5. Google will make mistakes.
  • Once we believed that microfilm would solve the problem of preserving texts. Now we know better.
  • 6. As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that Google's copies will last.
  • all texts "born digital" belong to an endangered species
  • 7. Google plans to digitize many versions of each book, taking whatever it gets as the copies appear, assembly-line fashion, from the shelves; but will it make all of them available?
  • 4. Companies decline rapidly in the fast-changing environment of electronic technology.
  • No single copy of an eighteenth-century best-seller will do justice to the endless variety of editions. Serious scholars will have to study and compare many editions, in the original versions, not in the digitized reproductions that Google will sort out according to criteria that probably will have nothing to do with bibliographical scholarship.
  • 8. Even if the digitized image on the computer screen is accurate, it will fail to capture crucial aspects of a book.
  • ts physical aspects provide clues about its existence as an element in a social and economic system; and if it contains margin notes, it can reveal a great deal about its place in the intellectual life of its readers.
  • Rare book rooms are a vital part of research libraries, the part that is most inaccessible to Google. But libraries also provide places for ordinary readers to immerse themselves in books,
  • Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library.
  • I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns.
  • he research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future.
  • beth gourley on 25 May 08
     
    The library as citadel and as the open internet both play an important and distinguishable role.
Donna Baumbach

iPhone App Word Lens Instantly Translates Life Into Something Amazing | Fast Company - 3 views

www.fastcompany.com/...acation-into-something-amazing

iphone app cool tools language translator spanish english

shared by Donna Baumbach on 18 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 18 Dec 10
     
    spanish to english translator via iphone - way cool
Certificate IV Assessment

Qualified Trainers with Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - 1 views

With a talent for helping others and teaching, becoming a trainer is the perfect career progression for me. To train myself and become recognised in my chosen field, I enrolled to get a Certificate...

education

started by Certificate IV Assessment on 25 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Cathy Oxley

Jane McGonigal to Find the Future at the New York Public Library | Fast Company - 7 views

www.fastcompany.com/...at-the-new-york-public-library

NYPL games mobile_technologies app cool tools

shared by Cathy Oxley on 27 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 27 Aug 11
     
    "Libraries aren't just about collecting knowledge from the past, they're also a place to inspire big ideas and world-changing dreams for the future."
Stacey Lang

Qualified Trainers with Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - 1 views

With a talent for helping others and teaching, becoming a trainer is the perfect career progression for me. To train myself and become recognised in my chosen field, I enrolled to get a Certificate...

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

started by Stacey Lang on 27 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
Certificate IV Assessment

Qualified Trainers with Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - 1 views

With a talent for helping others and teaching, becoming a trainer is the perfect career progression for me. To train myself and become recognised in my chosen field, I enrolled to get a Certificat...

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

started by Certificate IV Assessment on 26 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
beth gourley

Best Buy and Verizon Jump Into E-Reader Fray, With iRex - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...23ebooks.html

digitalgist mobile-devices

shared by beth gourley on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics that already makes one of Europe’s best-known e-readers, plans to announce that it is entering the United States market with a $399 touch-screen e-reader.
  • The iRex has an 8.1-inch touch screen and links to buy digital books in Barnes & Noble’s e-bookstore and periodicals from NewspaperDirect, a service that offers more than 1,100 papers and presents them onscreen largely as they appear in print form.
  • The iRex can also handle the ePub file format, a widely accepted industry standard, which means that owners can buy books from other online bookstores that use ePub and transfer texts onto the iRex.
  • beth gourley on 28 Sep 09
     
    Source for Tennant's article in LJ
Ace Dee

Interaction Between SEO Social Media Marketing and Customers - 3 views

Customers like us frequently visit SEO social media sites. We register ourselves to interact with friends and make new friends simultaneously. With social media marketing, our website traffic incr...

SEO

started by Ace Dee on 08 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
iupdateyou123

Job For Fresher- .Net Developers - 0 views

www.iupdateyou.org/...job-for-fresher-net-developers

.net net framework 4 online jobs job search in new york ny city website it I need a software engineer description engineering

shared by iupdateyou123 on 25 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • iupdateyou123 on 25 Nov 14
     
    Company- Staffing / Employment Agency Salary Preferred- 70,000 $ To 95,000.​00 $ Yearly Job Location- New York City NY Job Type- Full Time Experience Required- 0 To 2 Years Eligibility- Bachelor's degree Job Responsibilities- Candidate should be known by full SDLC for new cross platform browser-based systems along this converting and enhancing legacy desktop applications into the modem browser applications.
Gary Plumley

Luxury Car Limo hire oxford - 0 views

www.hotfrog.co.uk/...Cheapest-Limo

Limo hire oxford Limo hire reading Limo hire in slough

shared by Gary Plumley on 20 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Gary Plumley on 20 Jan 15
     
    Our Largest range of limo hire in Reading services include limo hire Reading for the festivals and special events, airport transfer, wedding day Limo hire service, prom night limousine hire, hen and stag parties, birthday parties, sightseeing, valentine's day special, father's day special, mother's day special, wedding anniversaries, promotional events and more.
Vimal Chaudhary

Jobsdhamaka - Learne Interview Tips - 0 views

www.jobdhamaka.org

professional development

shared by Vimal Chaudhary on 04 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Vimal Chaudhary on 04 Feb 15
     
    Fresher Various Jobs Found - Excellent Job Opportunities in Fresher Freshers and Experienced, Register and Apply for Fresher Jobs in Top Companies
Gary Plumley

Limo Hire London is a Best UK Limousine - 0 views

www.fyple.co.uk/...cheapest-limo-q1asq7a

Limo Hire London Limo hire oxford Limo hire in slough

shared by Gary Plumley on 05 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Gary Plumley on 05 Feb 15
     
    We offer limousine hire in London at very competitive prices and will cater for whatever your occasion for the best luxury transportation service in the UK. 
iupdateyou123

Job For Fresher- Web Application Developer - 0 views

www.iupdateyou.org/...sher-web-application-developer

it jobs job software engineers engineer engineering information technology gis entry level new york city in ny state Albany employment search

shared by iupdateyou123 on 26 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • iupdateyou123 on 26 Nov 14
     
    Company- Salary Preferred- 60,000 $ To 90,000.​00 $ Yearly Job Location- New York City NJ 07306 Job Type- Full Time Experience Required- 0 To 2 Years Eligibility- Bachelor's degree Career Level- Entry Level Skill Required- Verbal Communication, web user interface design, software requirement, web programing, software development fundamentals, multimedia content development, software debugging, technical leadership, written communication.
amby kdp

Kindle - 0 views

In 2007, Amazon introduced a $399 e-book reader called the Kindle. The Kindle wasn't the first dedicated e-book reader device, but it didn't really have much competition - there wasn't a huge deman...

started by amby kdp on 17 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
Genix Technology

Product Defect Lawyers in Boise City ID - 0 views

www.doyousue.com/efect-lawyers-in-boise-city-id

Product Defect Lawyers in Boise City ID backchannel

shared by Genix Technology on 15 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Genix Technology on 15 Aug 16
     
    If you've been hurt by a poorly designed or manufactured product, sue the company through our Boise City defective product lawyers. Any damages caused by a product you used, you may have a defective product liability claim.
« First ‹ Previous 41 - 60 of 61 Next ›
Showing 20▼ items per page