How to Digitize an LP (for dummies). Internet Archive
Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Dec, 2008What NOT To Do In Social Media
Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Dec, 2008Robin Broitman at IIG has put together a Superlist of What NOT To Do In Social Media, linking to eye-opening examples of blunders made by major corporations and individuals when launching social Web initiatives. Learn by (bad) example and avoid the social media mistakes listed in this handy guide including:
- The Twitter Hall of Shame: 50 Tweets That Will Echo in History
- A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media
- 10 Social Media Blunders that Can Destroy Your Brand
7 Things You Should Know About Lecture Capture
Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Dec, 2008Educause has published another of its 7 Things guides, this time focusing on the tech which enables instructors to record their lessons for students to access digitally. In 7 Things You Should Know About Lecture Capture, the folks at Educause answer the following questions:
- What is it?
- Who’s doing it?
- How does it work?
- Why is it significant?
- What are the downsides?
- Where is it going?
- What are the implications for teaching and learning?
How to Protect Your Online Privacy and/or Access Blocked Sites / Ann Smarty
Posted by Celia Walter | 22 Dec, 2008Many sites are blocked in some countries - if you are located in the USA, you are probably unfamiliar with this problem (unless you are trying to figure out how to access blocked websites when at work, which I am sure you aren’t).
Or you just want to access a site anonymously (to prevent your IP address from being tracked or protect yourself from from online spying, phishing and pharming). Anyway, no matter what your reasons are, this week’s toolkit is dedicated to bypassing website access restrictions:
Information Overload Resource Center
Posted by Celia Walter | 20 Dec, 2008Articles, tools and research data about messaging overload and interruptions.
Note
The Resource Center is definitely "under construction". In the meantime, you can let us know of any papers and resources that should be added; and you can add them yourselves to the FriendFeed room we use for collecting such pointers, at http://friendfeed.com/rooms/information-overload !
Contents
- 1 Research Papers on Email Overload
- 2 Research Papers on Distractions and Interruptions
- 3 Web Sites with Information Overload Resources
- 4 E-mail Related Social Issues
Best Careers 2009: Librarian/ By Marty Nemko
Posted by Celia Walter | 20 Dec, 2008Overview.Forget about that image of librarians as a mousy bookworms. More and more of today's librarians must be clever interrogators, helping the patron to reframe their question more usefully. Librarians then become high-tech information sleuths, helping patrons plumb the oceans of information available in books and digital records, often starting with a clever Google search but frequently going well beyond...[more]
From: US News and World Report
CW: Of course, I'm not biased 
Scientific Red Cards for Research Misconduct
Posted by Celia Walter | 20 Dec, 2008The aim of this website is to take inventory of scientific publications for which research misconduct has been assessed. Research misconduct in publications include:
- Data-related misconduct : falsification, fabrication and plagiarism
- Publication-related misconduct : non respect of editorial policies and standards
- Research practice misconduct : unethical treatment of research subjects
Red Cards List Prefatory statement:
We wish to inform you that this page records papers for which ad hoc committees have assessed specific kinds of misconduct. This does not necessarily mean that the papers contain erroneous data. We invite you to have a look at the whole site and specially at the About section for more details.
Openness and criticism are essential features of research. Here we intend to provide better access to information for readers to make up their mind and for science to build on.
Who is behind this web site?
We are PhD students, having different scientific backgrounds and now carrying out PhD projects in life sciences. We all share a deep interest in the relationships between scientific research and society and a strong motivation for promoting integrity in research.
In addition, we believe that scientific integrity can be promoted through education. Not only should students be aware that a responsible conduct of research is essential for doing good science, they should also develop abilities to detect and deal with scientific misconduct when it arises.
Feel free to contact us at contact@scientificredcards.org !
Digital Age, Director of Harvard Libraries Speaks at MIT
Posted by Celia Walter | 20 Dec, 2008Perhaps because he is a historian rather than librarian by training, Robert Darnton regards the vast ocean of digital information that civilization has begun accumulating with relish rather than anxiety. Darnton delves into European archives to find raw material, boxes of cast-off “ephemera,” for his stories of how people lived hundreds of years ago. No wonder he believes “it’s important to preserve as much as you can because you don’t know what will turn out to be significant.”
In conversation with David Thorburn and audience members, Darnton lays out why he finds more promise than peril in rapidly expanding digital collections. He first owns up to the tactile pleasures of archival history: the sensation of opening a box full of manuscripts, dirty hands, the smell of old paper, and literally coming “into contact with vanished humanity.” He cherishes the drama of such research, as well as the finished, weighty products of this kind of work: the book. While the “tactile quality of books” is very important — and Darnton describes holding up leaves of 18th century books to see bits of ground-down petticoat thread — there are also positive dimensions to digital versions. For instance, when the British Library digitized Beowulf, it discovered several new words. But “one medium of communication doesn’t displace another,” he reassures. “They coexist.” Darnton himself is hard at work on a large-scale electronic book about books in the 18th century, comprised of layers a user can navigate, from essays on various subjects, to selections of documents in English, to the original documents in French. There might even be songs performed as they were sung in the streets of Paris 250 years ago. “We are in an era of creating new kinds of books, new kinds of reading and authorship.”
This presentation was recorded on October 16, 2008 at MIT in Cambridge, MA. It runs 1:54 minutes.
From: The Resourceshelf
INTSPEI Search Cloudlet
Posted by Celia Walter | 20 Dec, 2008
INTSPEI Search Cloudlet.
I was asked to review the Search Cloudlet, which is a Firefox addon.
Basically it inserts tag clouds into Google and Yahoo results to give
you ideas (tags) to narrow a search. Once you've run a search a tag
cloud appears above the results and you can click any tag to add it to
the search box. There is a video on the site that explains this in more
detail, which I urge you to watch and turn your speakers up to LOUD for
the stirring military music that accompanies it. (Yes, really!)
It's not the sort of thing that would appeal to most people, but if you're working with novice searchers you may want to install it onto one or two machines to demonstrate the value in chosing more terms to search for. But really, go see the video!
It's not the sort of thing that would appeal to most people, but if you're working with novice searchers you may want to install it onto one or two machines to demonstrate the value in chosing more terms to search for. But really, go see the video!
How much a partridge in a pear tree, and the other 11 gifts, cost in 2008
Posted by Celia Walter | 20 Dec, 2008
Google Chrome 1.0
Posted by Celia Walter | 20 Dec, 2008Google Chrome 1.0
Google recently released their first full version of the web browser Chrome, and by most accounts, it's a valuable addition in this particular area of applications. Visitors will note that the focus here is on the pages that people are viewing, rather than the sometimes cumbersome applications and tools that are gathered around the borders. Chrome doesn't really offer many plug-ins, but it does have detachable tabs which can be rearranged as users see fit. This version is compatible with computers running Windows 95 and newer. [KMG] Scout Report
File sharing - the new free public library?
Posted by Celia Walter | 18 Dec, 2008MP3 Newswire -” [C]ould not the activity of file sharing in essence be a form of free public library? Is it not built by a community of people who have assembled content and applied it with the intent of free dissemination to the populace at large? It’s an interesting question, because even if you feel that file sharing should in no way qualify for library status that’s what in all practicality it has become.”
From: Library stuff
Australian court serves documents via Facebook
Posted by Celia Walter | 17 Dec, 2008
The big question about Facebook is does it have any valuable commercial pplication? Well it seems that the courts have found one. oday in what appears to be a first in Australia and perhaps the world, aster Harper of the ACT Supreme Court ordered that a default judgement could be served on defendants by notification on Facebook. A default judgement is given by the court where the defendant does not appear in court to defend the case. Once the plaintiff has been awarded the default judgement by the court, the plaintiff must then locate the efendant and serve the judgement on them…
More at http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/court-serves-documents-via-facebook/2008/12/12/1228585107578.html
Thanks to Dilshaad Brey for this.
Pew Internet & American Life: Future of the Internet III
Posted by Celia Walter | 17 Dec, 2008The Pew Internet & American Life Project published a new report titled The Future of the Internet III yesterday. The study was based on a survey of 578 internet leaders who were asked to analyze technology forecasts for the year 2020. Key findings include:
- The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020.
- The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness.
- The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic social relations.
Be sure and check out the complete report for more.
From iLibrarian blog