Library 2.0
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Musings about librarianship: Bayesian filtering of RSS feeds - can you automatically find interesting journal articles?Introduction In this long rambling post (too bad the name Rambling librarian is taken) , I write about filtering RSS feeds (in particular table of contents from online journals), using 3 services , SuxOr , FeedZero and FeedScrub . I ramble on about social filtering versus Bayesian filters ...
aaron tay
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8 days ago
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Factores y elementos de transición entre la biblioteca digital y la biblioteca socialFactores y elementos de transición entre la biblioteca digital y la biblioteca social 13 ...tramullas added 2 weeks ago
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The future of e-learning - a shift to knowledge networking and social softwareThe main aim of Knowledge Management (KM) is to connect people to quality knowledge as well as people to people in order to peak performance. This is also the primary goal of Learning Management (LM). In fact, in the world of e-learning, it is more widely recognised that how learning content is ...
Giorgio Bertini
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3 weeks ago
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Knowledge Tools of the FutureComputers are brilliant at handling routine tasks, enforcing standardization and workflows, and connecting workers around the world. But for companies trying to differentiate themselves based on innovation rather than efficiency and lower cost, offloading tasks onto computers, or relying on ...
Giorgio Bertini
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3 weeks ago
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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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4 weeks ago
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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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4 weeks ago
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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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4 weeks ago
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Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st CenturyAccording to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life project (Lenhardt & Madden, 2005),more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly onethird of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced. In many cases, these teens are actively involved ...
Giorgio Bertini
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5 weeks ago
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WebCite - an on-demand archiving system for webreferencesThe Problem Authors increasingly cite webpages and other digital objects on the Internet, which can "disappear" overnight. In one study published in the journal Science, 13% of Internet references in scholarly articles were inactive after only 27 months. Another problem is that cited webpages ...
Giorgio Bertini
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5 weeks ago
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Using Libraries to Bridge the Digital DivideThe nonprofit Knight Foundation announced today that it’s working with communities across the U.S. to make libraries more relevant in the information age. Lady Bird Johnson once said that the only entrance requirement to a public library is interest. A lot has changed since the 1960s, and that ...
Giorgio Bertini
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6 weeks ago