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Thursday, July 20, 2006
The Final Chorus
The Days & Nights of the Lipstick Librarian!: It’s A Man’s World-The Final Chorus
For whatever reason I still cannot quite articulate, men seem to be able to set aside (or sidestep entirely) mundane issues and do some serious navel-gazing. Add to it the fact that technology has always been a male bastion and what do we get? We get seven men and one women at the LITA Top Tech Trends Panel at ALA.
This is the best answer I’ve seen to “Where are the women?”.
Library Links — laura
Using a wiki as a research guide: a year’s experience
Library Voice » Using a wiki as a research guide: a year’s experience
I have been very pleased with my experience of using a wiki as a research guide, and I can tell you that I have no intentios of returning to my old traditional html guides. Only time will tell how the Biz Wiki will be used in the future. I will continue to add and edit content on an on-going basis, while weeding pages that are no longer relevant or out of date. It is my hope that the wiki will continue to be a viable and useful resource to business researchers at my institution and beyond. And if the day should come when the Biz Wiki is no longer useful, I only hope that another hair-brained idea will come along.
I really wanted to use a Wiki for the research guides at my library. Not only for Chad’s reasons but because they would make it easier for the various authors to edit them. Unfortunately, our IT department doesn’t allow PHP & MySQL. *sigh*
Web Tools — laura
More evidence that journal prices don’t correlate with quality or impact
More evidence that journal prices don’t correlate with quality or impact
Open Access — laura
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Video Games not so violent?
In The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games - Game Revolution, Duke Ferris did research at the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Statistics and found that violence among youth has actually dropped since the advent of video games. According to his stats, in 2004 youth homicide was at the lowest levels ever recorded.
Why would be interesting to know. Are they satisfying their impulses in games? Are they getting a better idea of cause and effect? Are they just too busy killing things in-game to do it in reality?
Gaming — laura
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Why Libraries are Important
2 Cents Worth » Why Libraries are Important
When the child graduates, the teacher will be gone. The classroom will be gone. The textbooks will be gone. But for the first time in history, continual learning will be the ONLY road to prosperity. Teacher and classroom as the model for continual learning will be meaningless. Far more relevant will be the library and the skills that a talented librarian will help patrons to develop.Library Links — laura
Ten Rules for New Librarians
Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Ten Rules for the New Librarians
Library Links — laura
Microsoft launches open-source project for OpenDocument
The software giant on Thursday launched the Open XML Translator project on SourceForge.net, a popular site for hosting code-sharing projects. The software will be available under the BSD open-source license.
The software, developed by a France-based Microsoft partner, will allow people to use Microsoft Office to open and save documents in the OpenDocument, or ODF, format.
Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, OpenDocument has emerged as an alternative with significant vendor backing and with high-profile government customers in Massachusetts and Belgium. OpenDocument is an XML-based format developed under the standards group OASIS, or the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
Open Access — laura
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
The Form Assembly - Free Web Form Templates
The Form Assembly - Free Web Form Templates
Website Design — laura
