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The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.

Archive for June, 2003

Filtering Update

Internet Censorship in Libraries has had some information added.

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Internet Censorship in Libraries

I thought about doing a piece on the Supreme Courts decision but it had already been done better. Supreme Court Decision Analysis Supreme Court Forces Libraries To Censor More on the Supreme Court Forcing Libraries to Censor Round-up of Links About SCOTUS Decision to Censor Library Internet Access A New Filtering Proposal FAQ on E-rate [...]

Class blogging

In Real Life Implementation of Weblogs in the Classroom, a Georgia teacher talks about how her elementary school students and high school students in New Jersey learned writing skills by using blogs as a way of writing to and for each other. It makes you think about other possible uses.

RSS

RSS stands for either “Rich Site Summary”, “RDF Site Summary” or “Really Simple Syndication,” depending on who you ask. There are long, technical explanations for RSS but it’s more easily explained by what it can do than what it is. Essentially, you can download an aggregator and use it to keep track of the updates [...]

Web Standards in Action

Web Standards in Action describes one developers experience in converting a site to standards-compliant code and the almost immediate benefits. Why are web standards important? Think MARC. Reuable, exchangable, understandable and easily manipulated.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography “This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.” An authoritative resource going back to 1990, complete with blog, search engine and links.

University Library Navigation

University Library Navigation Enabled by Ekahau “Wireless PDA based system called SmartLibrary helps users to find books and other material from the library collections. The help is provided in form of map-based guidance to the target bookshelf on a PDA. Ekahau Positioning Engine(tm) software is used by SmartLibrary system to pinpoint the accurate mobile client [...]

Microsoft plays browser games

Microsoft plays browser games discusses the possible motives and ramifications of MS’s decision to stop updating Internet Explorer as a separate piece of software for both Windows and Macs. Unless users switch to otherbrowsers web development will be slowed or even stopped until the release of the new Windows OS, supposedly in 2007.

Forum Moderator's Guide To Life

The Forum Moderator’s Guide To Life gives some good points on managing online communities. As more people move online it becomes a good idea to start building library communities as well. After all, we can supply many of the things they’re looking for a price they can afford (free).