ACRL, Syracuse University and WISE present online course

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jul, 2008

ACRL is partnering with Syracuse University and the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium to offer WISE+: Contemporary Academic Librarianship, an online continuing education opportunity taught by ACRL Past President Julie Todaro this fall. The three-month, asynchronous course examines 21st century academic libraries (community college, college and university) within the context of higher education, scholarly communication and the world of contemporary publishing.

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50 Steps to Developing a Consistent Social Media Practice

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Jul, 2008

If you’ve been considering implementing social media such as blogs, podcasting, social networking, etc. in your library or organization, you’ll want to check out Chris Brogan’s 50 Steps to Establishing a Consistent Social Media Practice. He determines fifty activities that you can pursue to help develop a well-rounded social media presence online. Here are his top ten:

  1. If you’re blogging, make that a home base for all your other efforts.
  2. Re-read the “passports” section of this post and use it to think about your blog promotion efforts.
  3. Pick 3 social networks to join based on where your customers might be. 3 might sound like too few, but it probably will be too many.
  4. On those networks and on your “passport” accounts, make sure you link everything back to the blog.
  5. Get a second (maybe even a 3rd) person in the company to build accounts on these places. Nice to have backups, in case you get busy.
  6. Build an editorial calendar to think about your posting schedule and subject matter.
  7. Subscribe to 50 or more blogs in a similar space as yours, including competitors, and any industry blogs.
  8. On all your presence points, be human, and write a human-sounding profile. Use a human-seeming profile picture. (Did I mention “human?”)
  9. After you’ve written your first blog post, take some time to comment on some of those 50 blogs, but NOT about your first post.
  10. Set up a few searches as explained in this post.
From iLibrarian blog

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Debut of new search engine, Cuil

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Jul, 2008

"The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up, until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else - three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency. Then we offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want and that you know is out there. We believe that analyzing the Web rather than our users is a more useful approach, so we don’t collect data about you and your habits, lest we are tempted to peek. With Cuil, your search history is always private. Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge".

http://www.cuil.com/

From Peter Scott's Library blog 

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100+ RSS Tools

Posted by Celia Walter | 28 Jul, 2008

Christina Laun from the OEDb puts together the The Ultimate RSS Toolset: 100+ Online Apps and Resources. This annotated resource list is categorized into the following sections:

  • Readers
  • Personalized Homepages
  • Browser Extensions
  • Blog Tools and Plugins
  • RSS Directories
  • Mobile Tools
  • RSS Email Tools
  • Feed Validators
  • RSS Feed Editors
  • IM RSS Tools
  • Miscellaneous Tools
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Literacy and Online Reading

Posted by Celia Walter | 28 Jul, 2008

The Sunday edition of The New York Times presents the first in a series of articles on the Future of Reading: Digital Versus Print titled Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? The article looks at what it means to read in the digital age, taking into account the opinions of literacy experts and readers alike.

“Few who believe in the potential of the Web deny the value of books. But they argue that it is unrealistic to expect all children to read “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “Pride and Prejudice” for fun. And those who prefer staring at a television or mashing buttons on a game console, they say, can still benefit from reading on the Internet. In fact, some literacy experts say that online reading skills will help children fare better when they begin looking for digital-age jobs.” 

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IFLA Journal, 34.2

Posted by Celia Walter | 27 Jul, 2008

IFLA Journal, 34.2
103 pages; PDF.

Articles include:

+ Canadian Libraries on the Agenda: their accomplishments and directions

+ Understanding Cybersocial Network Trends for Innovation in Libraries

+ North African Research Tendencies in Library and Information Science: the theoretical and the empirical

+ The Right of Access to Information: opportunities and challenges for civil society and good governance in South Africa

+ The DISA Project. Packaging South African heritage as a continuing resource: content, access, ownership and ideology

Source: IFLA

From The Resourceshelf

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UNESCO. Open Training Platform

Posted by Celia Walter | 27 Jul, 2008
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added a new partner to its Open Training Platform (press release). The Open Training Platform is a collaborative tool to share and promote “open” training materials. The posted materials are free and accessible for non-commercial purposes such as teaching, learning and research. Categories cover the many aspects of UNESCO's programme, and include conversational language courses, information management, and conflict prevention. RSS feeds available for all new content, or specific topics, e.g. ethics or environment.  UN Pulse Permanent Link: UNESCO's Open Training Platform

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Google’s Knol Now Public

Posted by Celia Walter | 24 Jul, 2008
Earlier today Google officially launched Knol which had previously been in beta and invitation-only (see previous coverage). Knol is a collection of authoritative articles, written by a community of experts and a direct competitor to Wikipedia. Knols are written by individuals or teams who are credited for their contributions and can share in the revenue generated from the Google Adsense ads on their subject pages. Readers can rate, review, and comment on knols as well as suggest changes or additions to the content which is subject to the article authors’ approval.

Further coverage:

Knol: Google Takes on Wikipedia - ReadWriteWeb

Google’s Wikipedia rival, Knol, goes public - C|Net News

Google Launches Knol, The Monetizable Wikipedia - TechCrunch

iLibrarian blog July 23rd, 2008

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China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN)

Posted by Celia Walter | 24 Jul, 2008
China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN)
The China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN) is coordinated by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). It offers taught courses and supports a global network of researchers focusing on inter-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the study of China in its Asian and global contexts.This includes coverage of Chinese economic history, politics, culture, sociology, media and international relations. Its website provides information on its aims, membership and activities. It includes details about courses, conferences and publications. These include the launch of working papers and an ejournal in 2009. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CCPN/

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Intergovernmental organisations' websites, a search tool

Posted by Celia Walter | 24 Jul, 2008
IGO search: search intergovernmental organisations' websites
This free Google custom search tool search tool has been developed by the Union of International Associations. It allows rapid keyword searching of the contents of over 3,000 international and intergovernmental organisations listed in the Yearbook of International Organizations. This makes it an excellent starting point for research on international organisations and all aspects of international relations worldwide. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.uia.be/igo

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California Literary Review (CLR)

Posted by Celia Walter | 24 Jul, 2008

The goal of CLR is to be an online source "for insightful, irreverent book reviews, thought provoking essays, and interviews with talented authors." Find reviews for fiction and non-fiction books, author interviews, and essays on topics such as a Frida Kahlo art exhibit, Art Deco in Havana, Cuba, and notes from Italy. Also includes a blog called "The Balcony."
URL: http://calitreview.com/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26370

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NMC: Horizon Project and Horizon Report, 2008

Posted by Celia Walter | 24 Jul, 2008

Background and updates about this project that "charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression and produces the ... annual Horizon Report." Downloadable reports available back to 2004 (some in other languages). Includes related links. From the New Media Consortium (NMC), "an international ... not-for-profit consortium of over 260 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies."
URL: http://www.nmc.org/horizon
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26508

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Worldwidelearn.com

Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Jul, 2008

http://www.worldwidelearn.com/

...Our mission is to help you find the online degree or career school program near you, online course, and online education resources you'll need to achieve your personal goals.

Largely USA and Canada , but there is a link 

International Students Outside US & Canada?
in the top righthand corner

CW 

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Children in virtual worlds: conference web site

Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Jul, 2008
Children in virtual worlds
'Children in Virtual Worlds' is the website of a joint conference held by the BBC, the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the University of Westminster. The one-day conference was held in May 2008, in a climate of increasing moral panic on the topic by media commentators and pressure groups. The conference proceedings are being placed online, and at mid July 2008 the following academic papers are available: 'New research on virtual worlds for children'; 'Children in virtual worlds: legal issues'; 'Researching virtual worlds: let's talk about ethics'; 'Learning from online worlds: teaching in Second Life'; 'Immersion and play in virtual and actual places'; and a report on the BBC's 'Adventure Rock' online world (formerly CBBC World). Most of these papers are in PDF form, but there is also some video from the conference. The website also contains full details of the conference programme. The papers this website contains will be useful for those researching new forms of interactive media, the changing media consumption of young childhood in the UK, and also the knowledges and attitudes about virtual worlds that young people may bring with them in the near-future when they enter higher education. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.childreninvirtualworlds.org.uk/

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International Journal of Cuban Studies

Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Jul, 2008

International Journal of Cuban Studies
International Journal of Cuban Studies is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the International Institute for the Study of Cuba at London Metropolitan University.

 From the homepage:

A forum for objective investigation and informed debate

about the Cuban experience.

 

From Peter Scott's Library blog 

 

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