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From BBC - "Video games could have a serious role to play in the classroom, a survey of teachers and students suggests." LexisNexis Survey Shows Today’s Consumers Trust Traditional Media Sources the Most - "The findings show that when consumers are faced with major events that significantly affect their lives, such as a pandemic or an ominous hurricane, their trust mostly remains with traditional media, such as professional journalists at mainstream newspapers, magazines, television and radio, versus emerging media sources created by citizen journalists including Internet-only publications, blogs and podcasts." From Boston.com - "Citing the Bookfinder Report, Britain's Telegraph newspaper says an estimated 98 to 99 percent of books that have been published are out of print." (via) From Catholic News Service - "From advice on how to live a life of prayer to descriptions of casual encounters with American tourists, Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley's latest effort to communicate with his flock is making a splash both in Boston and in cyberspace." From LJ - "Take a look. Are you using podcasts to promote your electronic resources? A number of libraries are; for example, the Lansing Library Teen News Blog at lansinglibraryteen.blogspot.com features podcasts, RSS feeds, instant messaging, and more, brilliantly geared toward that audience." The College of New Jersey Library has RSS Feeds. More from the school and an article on how they did it: ""From our point of view, this project has been a “win-win-win” situation for TCNJ. Users win when they can easily find library print resources. Librarians and administrators win when users take advantage of our services and resources, justifying library-related expenses. Lastly, the college wins when we can foster an environment of creative collaboration in a way that supports its mission by better serving faculty and students." Liz Lawley on BookBurro - "This is a tool that will significantly improve my day-to-day quality of life--both for knowing what the RIT library has so I can borrow it, and for letting me know what they don't have so I can suggest that they order it. And, when I do want to acquire a copy for myself, I'll be able to easily comparison shop without having to go to multiple sites." From the Chicago Sun Times - "For anyone who's burned countless minutes trying to find a book on the library shelves, Chicago State University has the solution. In a first for an Illinois library, the school has installed a robotic system to retrieve volumes in its new library. In a set-up that looks more out of "The Matrix" than a stuffy academic library, two large robots can find any book among 850,000 in an average of 35 seconds." A Thousamd Words - "A Thousand Words is a place for stories from the people of Kodak. We love what we do, and we want to share our stories about imaging and its power to influence our world. We invite you to join our conversation with stories and images of your own." (via) The History Librarian - "I am a subject librarian for History, Anthropology, and Middle East Studies at Georgia State University. I’ve been blogging at work for over a year and decided it was time to have my own personal blog as an outlet for ideas and to work on writing." (via) From the NYTimes - "From the first quarter to the second this year, Gmail got nearly 15 times better at distinguishing legitimate commercial e-mail messages from spam, according to a new report from Lyris, a maker of e-mail marketing software." Snapfire - "NEW Corel Snapfire puts the fun in photo sharing! With Snapfire it's never been so easy or so fun to organize, fix, and share your digital photos and videos." From AP: "Forget the blather. With a new audio search technology, users could jump right to the area of interest in podcasts, and soon also in videos." From PCWorld: The Future of the Web From Public Technology: "The Conservative Party has launched Webcameron.org.uk, a website which gives the public the to communicate, and share a platform with leader David Cameron, as well as thought leaders from around the world. The site has a blogging focus, with an emphasis on video content. David Cameron's personal blog is housed on the site, and there is a Guest Blog for thought leaders from around the world to visit and contribute exclusive content." From the Indy Channel - "Officials in some central Indiana school districts say comments that students post on the Internet can have repercussions in the classroom. But students and free-speech advocates said it's none of the schools' business what teenagers do on their home computers." From USA Today - "The attractions of blogging for politicians are many. Blogging directly reaches a national (and even global) audience without the filtering of the newspaper or the price of TV time. Blogging can render an aura of intimacy difficult to attain via traditional mass media. Blogging is also a boon for politicians out of the public eye. Former Democratic vice presidential candidate." ACRL Fall Virtual Institute - "The ACRL Fall Virtual Institute, "The User at the Center," will focus on how libraries can use technologies and practice to put the user at the center of the information enterprise on campus. While the internet has served as a catalyst to get students and faculty using information differently, the real quantum change is occurring now in the ways in which students, faculty and staff on campuses worldwide are interacting with one another. Technologies and practices have changed the way in which these interactions take place and may even be changing the content of the conversations themselves. Maximize your ability to meet your mission on your campus by discovering new tools and new ways of thinking about users and their behaviors." (via) Carnival of the Infosciences #56 - "Sometimes a carnival is a delightful place, filled with fun rides and cotton candy. Sometimes a carnival has a creepy mirror maze and you run into a strange tattooed man named Mr. Dark. Sometimes a carnival is mostly deserted, as it is this week because I didn’t get very many submissions. So I went out and found a bunch of extra posts, and you better enjoy it…because Something Infosciences This Way Comes!" |
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