Here is a great blurb for what is happening in Taiwan .... Click on it to make it readable

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Official registration for SPLAT 101 has closed, but you can still participate in this self-paced online course! (If you want to receive weekly reminder emails, email Shirley Biladeau.) Join others and learn about six technology-based resources that can save you time and money at work and home.

• Week 1 – Blogs
• Week 2 – RSS
• Week 3 – IM
• Week 4 – Online Applications
• Week 5 – Wikis
• Week 6 – Tagging

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It is no secret that the members of SPLAT love innovation. I just read this great article in the NextGen column for Library Journal encouraging libraries to follow the lead of corporations like Google and truly create environments that support and encourage innovation, creativity, and radical ideas. What does it take to be innovative? What kind of environments do we need to inspire and support innovation? This article suggests a paradigm shift in the way libraries are organized and run. Imagine an open source ILS and catalogs that have Library 2.0 and Web 2.0 focuses. The future will look very bright for libraries that foster work environments conducive to innovation.

Read the article: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6630793.html

I've seen this trend with more frequency, of explaining complex concepts into easy to digest ideas via powerful and effective visuals. The latest I've come across is this video titled, "The Crisis Of Credit Visualized"

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

What can libraries learn from these kinds of delivery?

Care to know the beginning of the interwebs? Behold, the video version of how it all began:
History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.