Category: Technology

Mar 18 2008

“Web Has Unexpected Effect on Journalism”

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Yesterday Wired magazine had an interesting article titled “Web Has Unexpected Effect on Journalism,” about the effect that the web has had on journalism, and it’s not what I would...

Feb 09 2008

Digital, Maps, Technology, World

The Digital Divide

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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has recently published Information Economy Report 2007-2008 which notes that the digital divide is still very much an issue that must...

Jan 24 2008

Archives, Europe, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

The Commons

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I started out being hesitant to go down the road that is making OPACs and other library related tools look more like Google, Amazon.com and the like, but the more...

Jan 21 2008

Libraries, Public Libraries, Technology, Web 2.0

LibraryThing for Libraries

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During the same Hot Topics Discussion mentioned below I also heard a presentation about the implementation and use of LibraryThing at a public library by Kate Sheehan, Coordinator of Library...

Jan 18 2008

Libraries, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0

PennTags

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During ALA Midwinter I attended a Hot Topics Discussion Group titled “Tag You’re It: A revolution in patron-library interaction”. The first presenter was Jennifer Sweda, cataloging librarian at the University...

Jan 07 2008

Digital, Europe, Technology, USA, World

Opera at the Movie Theater?

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Yes! You can enjoy the opera at the movie theater! Last season Peter Gelb, director of the Metropolitan Opera began this amazing project of doing live broadcast to a number...

Jan 06 2008

Archives, Digital, Manuscripts, Open Access, Public Libraries, Technology, USA

Government Documents at the BPL to be Digitized

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The Boston Public Library (BPL) has joined forces with PublicResource.org and the Internet Archive in order to begin digitizing the library’s large collection of government documents. This project has first...

Dec 21 2007

Databases, Digital, Europe, Open Access, Technology, USA, World

Million Book Project

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As the year comes to an end the Million Book Project has reached its goal of scanning and making freely available a million books! This project is spearheaded by the...

Dec 21 2007

Open Access, Technology, USA, World

OLPC out in the World

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After 5 years of planing and development the “$100 Laptop” is finally making its way out into the real world! One of the first countries where the XO, as it...

Nov 21 2007

Digital, Libraries, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Amazon.com’s Kindle

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Amazon.com just launched a new electronic reader called Kindle. This new device is said to hold as many as 200 books and weights only 10.3 onces. Its screen seems to...