The State Library of Kansas pulled together all the important information for tracking Santa’s whereabouts and posted it on the web for your convenience:
Kansas Government Information
Be sure to check these resources later tonight so that you’ll be in bed before Santa’s arrival. You know the rules: “There must be no peeking or he might pass [...]
My library has finally made it’s first foray into YouTube. Here’s a video:
This is a fantastic video! Great to see physicists get down on youtube. : )
I blogged about LibraryThing a couple of years ago as a great tool for readers. But it’s also a great tool for libraries.
One of the very popular programs presented at the library where I work is a series called Brown Bag Book Reviews. Staff members review some of their latest finds while the audience snacks [...]
I’ve signed up for email newsletters from bnet. The information provided is concise and highly useful. This video, in particular, is worth sharing with anyone who has to give a presentation. Whether your presentation is a one-time thing or if speaking is what you do for a living, there are tips here that will help [...]
Need a new place to look for free user-generated video? There’s more than just YouTube out there.
Blip.tv is another place where video is easily uploaded, tagged, sorted and found. While poking around the site, I came across this video created by Bernhard Drax. It’s a nice summary of what libraries are doing in Second Life, [...]
http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/
A co-worker just sent me a link to this site that provides free reading directly to your inbox every day. http://www.dailylit.com/about It’s easy: sign up, read books, and post to the discussions if you want. There’s quite a nice selection. I’ve just signed up and am looking forward to seeing how big a chunk of [...]
How cool is this?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/12/18/childrens.books/index.html
CNN has audio slideshows of kids reviewing kids’ books. This would be a nice feature on any library website — not just for kids, but for all age levels. People would eat this right up.
Ok, so I’m a little nerdy…
Guus van den Brekel, a medical librarian in the Netherlands, recently posted this resource to his Facebook page. It’s a visual medical dictionary that works like AquaBrowser:
http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do
Besides providing a visual connection between resources, it also does a great job of helping me find something if I spell it wrong. Example: Is it acetaminophen or acetominophen? Doesn’t [...]
That was the response I got from an inventor friend when I sent him this link:
http://www.jove.com/
and he’s right: it is just like youtube, only the videos are for scientists or those with extremely nerdy tendencies. This sort of information sharing needs to be on the radar screen of librarians.
The Journal of Visualized Experiments is a [...]
One of the websites I check on a regular basis is MIT’s Technology Review. A recent article led me to try out a new 3D visual browser, SpaceTime.
At first glance, this browser looks like a nice improvement over what we’ve had to choose from up until now. I did a quick ebay search on “books” and I really [...]
Here’s something to think about. Follow this link and let me know what you think of it:
glumbert.com - Shift Happens
I did a presentation on social networking last night for RRLC. We had some good conversation, which made this particular class a lot of fun.
Last week as I was preparing for the class I was poking around on the internet, bookmarking useful sites that I wanted to be sure to point out. My usual mode [...]