[This is a post from my personal blog but thought it would fit here as well]:
Speaking of having online tools and services (thanks, Barbara!) that make your research life easier, Lifehacker has an awesome post titled “Top Ten
SPLAT Archive
10 Jan 2008
Take a picture, get a PDF (and more)
08 Jan 2008
Howard Rheingold Video on Participatory Media
This is a great video by Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs: the next social revolution, explaining his use of social media, how social networks have evolved, and his take on "Participatory Media" and its three recognizable characteristics.
It's like explaining how the web evolved to the 2.0 bit. Good stuff!
06 Jan 2008
Top 100 FREE Tools for Learning 2007
This is a great site that Memo posted on Facebook: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100free.html
31 Dec 2007
CNN reports “Web generation heaviest users of public libraries”
Today, CNN reported on a study that describes increased use of public libraries by young adults, even those who have internet access elsewhere. There are some thought-provoking observations ...
Here is a little bit of information and the link to CNN:
- Young adults are the heaviest users of public libraries despite easy access to Web
- Problem-solving
22 Dec 2007
Portable Apps!
Today I learned about a great open source program today called Portable Apps. Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your 20 Dec 2007
Go ahead, get out there!
On Monday of this week I did my first school outreach for teens. And let me just say, I was NERVOUS! I went to a K-8 elementary and saw roughly 120 6th and 7th graders in chunks of about 30. I asked them about their familiarity with ACL, told them about
29 Nov 2007
Jing helps in reference
I’ve been playing with 17 Nov 2007
Pegasus – What’s it about?
Well, after percolating and flinging about ideas as to what I learned at Pegasus, I suppose I should explain what I thought Pegasus was going to be like. See, I had this notion that Pegasus–and this was my first impression–was all about corporate thinking, maximizing profit, enhancing the profit machinery to
13 Nov 2007
Scanning for customers
Yesterday, I had to say "no" to one of our users. He was asking if the library had a scanner that he could use. I'm embarrassed to say that we haven't really considered a library scanner, except for internal use
06 Nov 2007
The World Cafe
Greetings for the Pegasus Conference in Seattle. I wanted to share The World Café today. The following principles are great to help facilitate meaningful communication in your place