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A Twine devoted to the theory and practice of library and information science, begun by students in the MLIS program at Valdosta State University.
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Bookless Libraries? - Inside Higher Ed"The library is dead because books are dead." Strange, then, that we just got our daily truckload of the things. I find it odd that people talk as if scientists are the only ones on campus. Science hasn't been done via books for years, except on the undergraduate level (where science is mostly ...
William Shepherd
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Musings about librarianship: Zooming into presentations - Zoomit, Prezi & pptPlexIn this blog post, I describe 3 different ways to zoom in and out of presentations to increase visibility, and to create a bit of action. The three tools are Zoomit , Prezi and pptPlex . I describe my experiences with them in detail and their pros and cons as presentation tools. UPDATE : ...
aaron tay
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Musings about librarianship: The Librarian at the reference desk. How do you manage your workflow at the reference desk?Reference desk duty is probably the most interesting part of my day, as I get to interact with users. One thing that interests me greatly is how different librarians setup their systems to respond to users. As I see it, there are two main competiting interests. On one hand, you want to be ...
aaron tay
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Musings about librarianship: GoogleWave - First thoughtsIt has being a crazy week, I was stressing out having to give my first ever presentation at the Libraries of the future seminar (with the new presentation tool Prezi !). Google decided to make things more complicated by sending me an Invite to Google Wave ! I promptly gave it out to ...
aaron tay
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Internet Archive: A Future for Books -- BookServerBookServer, an an open architecture, open book formats system, will allow users to find, buy, or borrow digital books from sources all across the web and read on any device—laptop, PC, smartphone, game console, or e-readers like the Kindle or Nook. E-books from libraries on the horizon? Three ...
William Shepherd
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Musings about librarianship: GoogleWave - First thoughtsFor a more in-depth look at Google Wave, see the new online book at: http://completewaveguide.com/ Get it while it's hot (or before they start charging for it).William Shepherd added 2 days ago
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Essay - The Proposed Google Books Settlement - NYTimes.comWe've neglected the Google Books brouhaha on this Twine for a while, even though there has been lots of action. Looks like there will be something happening in November. Meanwhile, Google has been self-justifying, while critics take aim.William Shepherd added 3 weeks ago
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Libraries of the FutureMore on the Greenstein controversy: http://hangingtogether.org/?p=741William Shepherd added 5 weeks ago
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Musings about librarianship: Sharing links with users - 8 different waysWe've taken to putting our research guides and info literacy stuff on LibGuides, which allow a variety of material to be posted, updated, commented upon, etc. Plus we still use Delicious, Facebook, and a blog. There are, as Aaron points out, dozens of possibilities.William Shepherd added 6 weeks ago
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Cataloging Futures: Google's metadata questions - they're our questions alsoDear Google: Welcome to our lives. Love, Librarians of the world P.S. Misguided press notwithstanding, we're not snippy at all about your success; we use you all the time.Jennifer Parsons added 8 weeks ago
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