Archive for 'Innovation'
LibraryThing for (Academic) Libraries
I joined LibraryThing a while ago and find it a handy place for me to keep track of what I’ve been reading (yes, I’m a crime fiction junkie) and to share ideas about what to read next with like-minded readers. I’ve have been intrigued by LibraryThing for Libraries – without knowing entirely how academic libraries [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on March 8th, 2008 under Innovation, Technology Issues.
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Make 2008 Your Year For Trend Watching
Librarians need to pay more attention to important societal, cultural and business trends. That was the core premise of the Soaring to Excellence (STE) program in which I participated back on October 26, 2007. If you unfamiliar with STE it is a professional development teleconference that library workers can join both over the web and [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 1st, 2008 under Innovation, Professional Development.
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How Libraries Might Once Again Become Technology Leaders
Joe Lucia, Villanova University’s University Librarian, made some interesting suggestions about open source development in a recent post to NGC4Lib, a mailing list dedicated to “Next Generation Catalogs for Libraries.”
What most frustrates me in a general sense is the degree to which in libraries our human capital and our financial resources are tied into commercial [...]
Posted by Brett Bonfield on November 27th, 2007 under Innovation, Technology Issues.
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AcademicLibrary2.0
On the heels of the successful Five Weeks to a Social Library and the Learning 2.0 from Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County with its 23 Things, we also have at least two examples of academic libraries organizing their own 2.0 events/series. Check out the Library 2.0 Conference at The Ohio State University Libraries, [...]
Posted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe on August 2nd, 2007 under Innovation, Libraries and Learning, Professional Development, Technology Issues.
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Open Library Opens
There is a temptation to think big when it comes to books. For example, here’s a clip from the newly-revealed Open Library Project’s website, part of the Internet Archive .
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on July 17th, 2007 under Books, Innovation, Technology Issues.
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