March 2012
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Library Connect: How Librarians Can Successfully... →
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Information Artisan: Information about Pinterest →
Good link post to basic information about Pinterest, copyright concerns, and the whole kit and caboodle.
(I will confess that, though I’ve heard a lot about it, I haven’t even ventured to visit the website, much less sign up… I have too many time-sucks in my life already. :))
Also: LISNews - Pinterest for Libraries
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Publishers Weekly blog: Doing It for Themselves:... →
Lurking in the midst of the discussions of libraries trying to obtain ebooks from publishers is a larger issue concerning not just control over ebook ownership, but the control over the delivery platform. If libraries rely on Overdrive, for example, to supply them ebook lending services, they’ve outsourced a critical piece of library infrastructure to an outside party. While this strategy is...
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The Kindle Monologues: Am I the only one who's not... →
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kheva:
I mean… I’ve got the books at home. Proper books. I don’t like reading them on a screen. The magic of Harry Potter is better experienced as you’re holding the book in your hands, with the touch, the smell and everything…
But well… Whatever…
The magic behind the Harry Potter stories comes from the incredible world that J.K Rowling spent countless hours...
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Nonprofit Quarterly: Digital Divide Impacts... →
The sub-prime mortgage meltdown that has swelled the unemployment ranks is dwarfed by the ongoing effects of the digital transformation of world markets. This transition started well before the financial crisis and will likely continue long after. In the U.S., the issue of the pervasive lack of technology adoption within low income, rural, minority, and other underserved communities is almost...
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Atlantic Wire: Even Googlers Are Losing Faith in... →
One of Google’s own, Chief Internet Evangalist (and Internet inventor) Vint Cerf, has joined the growing chorus of voices warning of the possible end to Google’s dominance. ”There’s nothing to stop someone from developing better technology than we have and to invent something even more powerful and efficient and effective,” Cerf said speaking at the National Media...
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techdirt: How Much Of Today's Copyright Mess Is... →
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“There is a lesson in here somewhere. Perhaps it’s that eBooks made reading...”
– K.D. Rush - A Hunger for Books is No Game
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John Green's tumblr: Why Libraries Are Different... →
fishingboatproceeds:
Yesterday on twitter, I expressed annoyance with the hundreds of people who send me emails or tumblr messages or whatever to let me know that they illegally downloaded one of my books, as if they expect me to reply with my hearty congratulations that they are technologically sophisticated enough to use google or whatever. (I dislike it when people pirate my books. I know...
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Agnostic, Maybe: Schrodinger's eBook →
“Is an eBook a book?”
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Seriously, this should be the only question being discussed at this time because it is the most fundamentally important one. How can the other questions as posed by the presentations mentioned above be answered if we (the book expert people of all stripes) cannot come to a united conclusion as to whether an eBook is actually a book or a computer file or...
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#cildc B305: Ideas to Steal: 11 Free Marketing...
Steal These Ideas: 11 Free Marketing Strategies to Try Today Lindsay Sarin (@lcsarin) Julie Strange (@strnglibrarian) Andrea Snyder (@alsnyder02) #STIMcil
[[MORE]] have you showered recently? -how do we want to represent ourselves? house illustration: start with a good foundation renovate when necessary perform constant maintenance Start with a good foundation 1. assess: know where you stand how:...
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#cildc E304: Assessing Success for Digital...
Plural of Anecdote: Assessing the Success of a Digital Repository Jim DelRosso (@niwandajones) presentation: http://prezi.com/vljiwo6wy3gd/plural-of-anecdote-cil2012/
[[MORE]] data vs. anecdotes -there is no antagonism between data and stories; they both work together -massive spreadsheets inspire no one -need stories to connect, inspire, but need stories to back it up (D+A = 4ever) :)...
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#cildc B303: Twitter, Ads, and QR Codes... Oh My!
B303: Twitter, Ads, and QR Codes… Oh My! Janie Hermann (@janieh) Buffy Hamilton (@buffyjhamilton) Andrea Snyder (@alsnyder02) -panel discussion [[MORE]]
comments about differentiating between public/personal personas on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. -drawing the line on what to post no matter what account you’re using -be aware of how you create your professional image —the...
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#cildc E302: Defining Data Services
Defining Data Services: A case study on the process at a large research university library Rebecca Reznik-Zellen
[[MORE]] Data Is Here -data curation articles indexed in Google Scholar: 184 in 2006-2011 The Library’s Role Anna Gold, “Data Curation in Libraries: Short-Term Developments, Long-Term Prospects”: http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_dean/27/ -roles for librarians...
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#cildc E301: Data: Where Do I Begin & Why Should I...
Data 101 Where Do I Start & Why Do I Care? Abigail Goben (@hedgielib) #data101 slides: http://www.slideshare.net/AbigailGoben/data-101 1-page handout: http://hedgehoglibrarian.com/presentations/
[[MORE]] autodidactic librarian’s guide to learning data science what, where, who launch point what? basics of data —when you say data, what do you mean? —data differs between fields...
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#cildc Friday Keynote: Creating Inspiring...
Come, Let us go Boldly into the Present my Brothers & Sisters Michael Peter Edson (Director of Web & New Media Strategy, Smithsonian Institution) @mpedson http://www.slideshare.net/edsonm/michael-edson-let-us-go-boldly-into-the-future (doesn’t make policy, not a spokesman)
[[MORE]] where do we go from here? —where is “here”? “here” isn’t where it...
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#cildc E204: Google Plus? Or Minus? #cilgplus
E204: Google Plus or Google Minus? Julie Strange (@strnglibrarian) Joel Shields (@shieldss) J. Shore (@7shores) Patricia F. Anderson (@pfanderson) ->virtually #cilgplus [[MORE]] J.: if you have a gmail address, you have a google plus account —link in the upper left hand corner of the black bar on Google sites Google Plus is a social media site incorporated into Google family of products...
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#cildc E203: Open Source Trends & Migrations
E203: Open Source Trends & Migrations Marshall Breeding Irene McDermott
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Open Source in Libraries: Current Trends and Issues Marshall Breeding slides on site Context: basic library automation trends -transition away from legacy ILS (Integrated Library System) model —transition into new genre of Library Services Platforms -large-scale consolidation of automation: regional,...
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#cildc E202: IT Security for Libraries
E202: IT Security for Libraries Blake Carver (owner of LISHost.org) http://lisnews.org/security/ [[MORE]] getting security right is really hard, especially if you have a good web presence security is two different things: -it’s a feeling -it’s a reality (Bruce Schneider [?]) goal today is to make you feel as insecure as possible 3 groups of evildoers on the internet -criminals...
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#cildc D201: Getting to Yes after Computers in...
D201: Getting to Yes after Computers in Libraries Nzinga Holley-Harris Andrew Shuping
[[MORE]] Getting to Yes after CIL Nzinga Holley-Harris (FBI Library) book recommendations -Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher and William Ury -Buy*In, John P. Kotter library priorities are not necessarily IT priorities -because of time have you considered bringing an IT representative to Computers in Libraries or...
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#cildc Thursday Keynote: Creating Innovative...
Thursday Keynote: Creating Innovative Libraries Susan Hildreth (director of Institute of Museum and Library Services: @US_IMLS, http://www.imls.gov) [[MORE]] Museum and Library Services Act -about 15 years ago, created Institute of Museum and Library Services -competitive and state formula grant programs for libraries, competitive grants for museums -analyze trends, share best practices, provide...
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#cildc B105: Free & Cheap Tools & Apps #cildctools
B105: Free & Cheap Tools & Apps Nicole Engard Louise Alcorn Christa Burns #cildctools
[[MORE]] Free & Open Source Tools Nicole Engard open source=software that users have ability to run, modify, distribute, and study for any purpose you probably know of: -firefox -LibreOffice (www.libreoffice.org) -Linux/Ubuntu -Koha ILS -Evergreen ILS what you may not know of: -LimeSurvey (web...
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#cildc B104: Getting to Know HTML5 & CSS3...
HTML5 & CSS3: New Markup & Styles for the Emerging Web Jason A. Clark #cilhtml5 helpful links online: http://pinboard.in/u:jasonclark/t:cil-html5 presentation available: http://www.lib.montana.edu/~jason/talks/cil2012-html5.pdf [[MORE]]
terms: HTML, CSS, API html—idea of web as document html5 moves the browser into the realm of a true software development platform html5 working...
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eBookNewser: People Mainly Use the Kindle Fire to... →
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#cildc E102: Getting Ready for the Semantic Web
E102: Getting Ready for the Semantic Web Dr. Sharon Q Yang Yan Yi Lee
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Semantic Web -Web 3.0, web of linked data—linked by relationships -extension of current Web, not a replacement -can be processed directly by machines 3 things to remember: 1. machines understand/process the data 2. entity relationships -relationships between humans and things -properties of humans and things...
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#cildc B101: 7 Essential Elements to an Awesome...
B101: 7 Essential Elements to an Awesome Library Website David Lee King
[[MORE]]1. Customers want something to read, watch, & listen to when they visit the library (that’s sort of what we’re about, yeah?) -library website often talks about other things -using the catalog is not the real, ultimate goal of the library -emphasize things that people can actually *do* on the site...
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#cildc Wednesday Keynote notes
Wednesday Keynote Jeffrey Phillips what is it that sustains innovation? innovation is based on methodology[[MORE]] -no process to follow for innovative ideas (i.e. who do you go to with your idea?) five factors are important: 1. disappearing trade barriers -free access to markets for more competitors 2. increasing rate of change -rate of change is accelerating exponentially; attention...
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Shatzkin Files: Thinking more about ebooks and... →
Nonetheless, these two pieces of anecdata together suggest at least the possibility that the sales the big publishers are losing by withholding from the libraries is a larger number than just the ebooks they’re not selling for loan. They may also be losing other sales that come from discoverability and library-reader-generated word-of-mouth.
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The big publishers I have spoken to seem...
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“Print will survive. Books will survive even longer. It’s print as a marker of...”
– Tim Carmody: Wikipedia Didn’t Kill Britannica. Windows Did | Wired.com (via thisistheverge)
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Censored Genius: FREEDOM shouldn't be a CRIME →
…as the growth in ebook demand continues to increase, access to legitimately free ebooks is decreasing. The reason is that the Big Six publishers are fucking stupid. If you want to borrow an ebook from one of the Big Six, your ability to get it from the library is down to almost zero.
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Now, what happens when you take all the ereader and tablet and laptop users who have been...
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Librarian by Day: Should Libraries Get Out of the... →
Or get out at least until there is a better system?
I know what you are going to say, I can hear it already – “We can’t! Our patrons demand ebooks!” Except the truth is our patrons want a lot of things we can’t give them – to always be first on the waiting list for the new James Patterson, to not pay fines when their books are late, for the library to be open earlier or later, or to have a...
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Hack Library School: New Librarianship: Librarians →
Librarianship is an awareness — a hypervigilance to any needs of a community. Everything we see or come in contact with is collected and disseminated to those who seek that information. On another level, though, we also retain that idea, and can share it with someone else. In that way, librarians are libraries, indexes, databases; polymaths. “Jack of all trades; master of none” no longer...
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Guy LeCharles Gonzalez: Ebooks and Libraries: Is... →
Since publishers are so concerned with the “perpetuity of lending and simultaneity of availability” of their ebooks, I have to wonder if libraries shouldn’t just help them out and hit the STOP button themselves?
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Surely every library has a service gap or three to fill that’s more valuable than overpaying for temporary licenses to files and platforms they don’t own, that may or may not...
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Ubiquitous Librarian: My Evolving Feelings With... →
There is often talk about the loss of serendipity due to libraries moving more to closed stacks but I’m starting to disagree. It’s not about losing what’s in the stacks– it’s about greater access to content that is linked together more effectively. We’re in the growing pains stage right now, but imagine what it could become. It could be another new information revolution. This isn’t about just...
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