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in title, tags, annotations or urlReading Champions - Celebrating male readers - 0 views
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Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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"How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright."
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sjm-showcase / FrontPage - 0 views
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Year 7 at St Joseph's Mundingburra created digital mosaics as an affective response to a group reading and discussion of Colin Thompson's "Dust," an Honour Book in the Picture Book category in this year's CBCA Book of the Year awards. The mosaics attempted to express the book's themes of starvation, isolation, loneliness, global responsibility, immediacy, caring, love and hope. The mosaics have been created through mashing bighugelabs with flickr images
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'The Door in the Wall and the Middle Ages' Webquest Resources - 0 views
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This is one of the pages from a webquest on the Middle Ages, specifically designed to help students gain more from reading the book "The Door in the Wall". It contains lots of links to
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Book: The Whuffie Factor | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon - 0 views
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The Whuffie Factor is a breakthrough book, providing the strategic map and specific tactics for success in the lucrative, but strange and elusive world of online communities. As Tara Hunt has found, online success comes from building a community and being part of it - not by pushing a product or service. If you want to learn the secret sauce behind Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube, you have to use them until you love them.
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Widgetbox › Booklover Quotes Widget - 0 views
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This is a widgetyou can add to your blog or webpage. It features a different author each month, and you can scroll through a list of quotes from different authors through history.
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ThinkeringSpace Library Study - 0 views
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The first, More Than Books, reveals the wide range of library offerings, indicating that they are much more than warehouses of books or media
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The second, Constant Change, describes the continued efforts that have been made by the library to meet patrons' expectations and keep up with technology.
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The third, Underused Expertise, identifies the broad expert skills of librarians, and the low use of this public resource.
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The fourth, Life-long Relevance, highlights the lack of continued interaction of patrons with the library through their different life phases
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The fifth, Community Outreach, describes the movement of the library in two opposite directions, towards both masses and niches
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The sixth, Sanctioned Initiatives, addresses the impact of high-level initiatives, such as the Early Literacy Program
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This is one component of the webpage Thinkering Space the focuses on library observations that will inform design criteria for Thinkering Space
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The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
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around 4000 BC, humans learned to write.
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the invention of writing was the most important technological breakthrough in the history of humanity
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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
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eventually included differentiated words (that is, words separated by spaces
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other reader's aids
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codex, in turn, was transformed by the invention of printing with movable type in the 1450s.
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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.
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fourth great change, electronic communication
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movable type to the Internet, 524 years;
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writing to the codex, 4,300 years;
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codex to movable type, 1,150 years;
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would argue that the new information technology should force us to rethink the notion of information itself.
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Internet to search engines, nineteen years
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search engines to Google's algorithmic relevance ranking, seven years;
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continued at such a rate as to seem both unstoppable and incomprehensible.
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continuity I have in mind has to do with the nature of information itself or, to put it differently, the inherent instability of texts.
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every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that information has always been unstable.
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pace of change seems breathtaking:
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news has always been an artifact and that it never corresponded exactly to what actually happened.
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News is not what happened but a story about what happened.
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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
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newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events
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We live in a time of unprecedented accessibility to information that is increasingly unreliable. Or do we?
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as messages that are constantly being reshaped in the process of transmission
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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.
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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.
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When Folger's collection grew beyond three dozen copies, his friends scoffed at him as Forty Folio Folger.
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eighteen of the thirty-six plays in the First Folio had never before been printed
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only two were reprinted without change from earlier quarto editions
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extual stability never existed in the pre-Internet eras.
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Piracy was so pervasive in early modern Europe that best-sellers could not be blockbusters as they are today
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They abridged, expanded, and reworked texts as they pleased, without worrying about the authors' intentions.
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question in perspective by discussing two views of the library, which I would describe as grand illusions—grand and partly true.
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o put it positively, there is something to be said for both visions, the library as a citadel and the Internet as open space.
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We have come to the problems posed by Google Book Search.
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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
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will open up possibilities for research involving vast quantities of data, which could never be mastered without digitization
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Electronic Enlightenment, a project sponsored by the Voltaire Foundation of Oxford
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scholars will be able to trace references to individuals, books, and ideas throughout the entire network of correspondence that undergirded the Enlightenment
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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
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will make research libraries obsolete
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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.
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1. According to the most utopian claim of the Googlers, Google can put virtually all printed books on-line.
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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.
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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.
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For books under copyright, however, Google will probably display only a few lines at a time, which it claims is legal under fair use.
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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.
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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.
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Google defines its mission as the communication of information—right now, today; it does not commit itself to conserving texts indefinitely.
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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
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Electronic enterprises come and go. Research libraries last for centuries. Better to fortify them than to declare them obsolete
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5. Google will make mistakes.
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Once we believed that microfilm would solve the problem of preserving texts. Now we know better.
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6. As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that Google's copies will last.
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all texts "born digital" belong to an endangered species
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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?
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4. Companies decline rapidly in the fast-changing environment of electronic technology.
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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.
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8. Even if the digitized image on the computer screen is accurate, it will fail to capture crucial aspects of a book.
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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.
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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,
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Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library.
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I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns.
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he research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future.
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The library as citadel and as the open internet both play an important and distinguishable role.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories - 0 views
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The man shrugged and replied, �In a year, the king may die. In a year, I may die. In a year, the horse may talk!�
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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connects the information people and the story people
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May 15, 1924 issue of Library Journal, Helen E. Haines wrote about contemporary fiction
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It offers constant problems and perplexities
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strong role in domesticating
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Booklist, Bill Ott, likes to say that librarians are divided into information people and story people
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Librarians, historically, have been at the place where new formats and new technologies happen to people in their daily lives.
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Plato was concerned that the new-fangled idea of writing stuff down would dilute scholarship and make men lazy
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even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally
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I thought perhaps she would extend the You-Tube example back to the oral and getting away from the written word
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change is our only certainty
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argued between those who consider all fiction foul or useless and those who see no harm in it at all
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Jamie Larue, director of the Douglas Public Library in Castle Rock, Colorado, calls librarians �the keepers of the books, the answerers of questions, and the tellers of tales.
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Our job is to keep ideas and make them available.
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Le Guin's words remind me of is how important it is to keep ideas that we do not comprehend, or believe in, or agree with; to keep them safe, and to keep them available. If librarians don't do this, who will? There is no other profession enjoined to preserve and disseminate all the truths of humankind that is our job.
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also need to remember that some ideas thought worthless today may turn out to be the bedrock of tomorrow's truths
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available not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas and silly ideas and yes, even dangerous and wicked ideas.
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librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas
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readers need to have available to them truth in all its myriad guises, light and dark, easy and difficult
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core values of librarianship are access and service
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always like to mention a few books that I think my audiences would enjoy
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Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky.
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Ann Bausum's With Courage and Cloth
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Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel
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nformation person and a story person
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Technology is our campfire. Change is what happens:
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Welcome to Shelfari! Read, Share, Explore! - Shelfari - 0 views
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Another place to share books socially online, similar to Library Thing. Seems to be popular right now.
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LibraryThing | Catalog your books online - 1 views
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Enter what you're reading or your whole library-it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.
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Fair use and transformativeness: It may shake your world - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on ... - 0 views
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copyright is designed not only to protect the rights of owners, but also to preserve the ability of users to promote creativity and innovation.
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the critical test for fairness in terms of educational use of media is transformative use
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adds value to, or repurposes materials for a use different from that for which it was originally intended, it will likely be considered transformative use; it will also likely be considered fair use
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BGA filed suit against DK for copyright infringement. The courts threw the case out, agreeing with DK's claim of fair use. The posters were originially created to promote concerts. DK's new use of the art was designed to document events in historical and cultural context. The publisher added value in its use of the posters. And such use was transformative.
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The fact that permission has been sought but not granted is irrelevant. Permission is not necessary to satisfy fair use.
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What is fair, because it is transformative, is fair regardless of place of use.
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One use not likely to be fair, is the use of a music soundtrack merely as an aesthetic addition to a student video project.
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adding value, engaging the music, reflecting, somehow commenting on.the music
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photocopying a text book because it is not affordable is still not fair use
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a discussion to "develop a shared understanding of how copyright and fair use applies to the creative media work that our students create and our own use of copyrighted materials as educators, practitioners, advocates and curriculum developers."
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This seems like an obvious share. An important discussion because it also opens more collaboration with colleagues. I have found that some colleagues want to avoid the gatekeeper because of the conservative nature of understanding copyright and fair use. This has been even more difficult while being in an international school.