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26 Jun 2009
Australian Copyright Council
Information sheets for libraries
The Australian Copyright Council's website is a good place to start if you are looking for some quick and easy to understand information concerning copyright and lending institutions. Bookmark this website for future reference.
Source: Australian Copyright Council website, 2009
26 Jun 2009
72% of Australian homes have broadband
Australia ranks ahead of US for home broadband access
South Korea, where 95 per cent of homes have broadband, topped a world survey on access to the high-speed internet. Among other Asia-Pacific nations, Australia ranked 11th with 72 per cent, Japan ranked 16th with 64 per cent, New Zealand ranked 25th with 57 per cent and China ranked 43rd with 21 per cent. The United States, where just 60 per cent of households had broadband as of last year, ranked 20th in the survey of 58 countries by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, released on Thursday.
Source: SMH website, 19 June 2009
26 Jun 2009
A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library
By Jennifer Steinhauer
Fiscal threats to libraries deeply unnerve noted science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who spends as much time as he can talking to children in libraries and encouraging them to read. A funding crisis at Ventura Country, where property taxes provide most of the financing for libraries, had left a $650,000 budget hole.
Source: New York Time website, 19 June 2009
26 Jun 2009
Position vacant – Alice Springs Town Council
Children and Youth Services Librarian
Alice Springs Town Council is seeking an enthusiastic and suitably qualified person to develop and deliver Library programs, resources and services to children and young adults.
Closing date 10 July.
Source: Alice Springs Town Council, 2009
26 Jun 2009
NoveList Select Puts Readers' Advisory In OPACs
Edited by Josh Hadro
EBSCO Publishing's NoveList has introduced NoveList Select, a product that embeds the NoveList readers' advisory tool's recommendations directly into the OPAC. The service provides recommendations based on a user's search term, cross-checking it against a database of information on more than four million fiction and nonfiction titles to serve up read-alikes and similar materials based on author, genre, and subject criteria.
Source: Library Journal, 15 June 2009
26 Jun 2009
Library of Congress YouTube pilot
In April 2009, the Library of Congress launched a pilot project on YouTube to offer selected items from its collections of early motion pictures, along with recordings of Library-sponsored events, lectures and concerts. As a pilot project the Library is sharing items from the collections with people who enjoy video but might not normally visit the Library’s website. To view the video on YouTube, go to the Library of Congress channel at: http://www.youtube.com/loc. You do not need a YouTube account to watch or embed the videos you find there; you would need to sign up for a free account to subscribe to the channel. All Library content that can be accessed on the YouTube channel is available on the Library of Congress web site.
Source: Library of Congress website, 2009
26 Jun 2009
Just a click for a century of news
By Peter Jackson
The British Library has put two million digitised pages from 19th century newspapers online, taking research out of its dusty reading rooms into people's homes. The pay-as-you-go service brings a century of history alive from Jack the Ripper to WG Grace. The website allows anyone to search over two million pages from 49 national and regional newspapers like the Daily News, Manchester Times or Penny Illustrated Paper.
Source: BBC News, June 2009
26 Jun 2009
Oshkosh Public Library turns off security system
By Amy Jo Schaenzer
For the past four months, the Oshkosh Public Library has been operating without a security system protecting more than 300,000 books and other materials that make up its collection. A new automated checkout system—installed in February—is not compatible with the old system at the library. Each piece of the collection needs to be retrofitted with radio frequency identification tags and new security gates must installed before the alarm system will once again work While the new security gates have been ordered, library staff is working to tag the entire collection, a task expected to take five years at a minimum.
Source: The Northwestern, 21 June 2009
19 Jun 2009
How Twitter will change the way we live
By Steven Johnson
The most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us, but what we're doing to it. The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."
Source: Time.com, 5 June 2009
19 Jun 2009
Wired teens tuned to multi-tasking
By Rodney Chester
As their parents complain of not having enough hours in the day while struggling to deal with the modern disease of an overflowing inbox, their digital native children have a novel solution to modern time management. This generation juggle their media-rich lifestyles to squeeze 38 hours of activities into every day. While their parents spent much of their teenage years wasting hours in front of a passive TV screen, research reveals how children and teenagers manage to multi-task with multiple media channels at once. A new study shows that young people spend 41 per cent more time online that the rest of us, which reflects their different media diet that includes two hours less reading books in a given week and 3.7 hours less watching television.
Source: news.com.au, 13 June 2009
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