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06 Nov 2009
Social Media Metrics
By David Stuart
Social media has been adopted by every type of library in recent years, from small special libraries to large national ones. Many now host blogs and wikis, are members of numerous social network sites, and even participate in virtual worlds. These sites and technologies offer new ways for library staff and users to communicate and collaborate. However, with so many different technologies and sites available—and with more emerging all the time—it is important that librarians develop methods for measuring the use and effectiveness of the technologies so that time is not wasted and the implementations are justifiable to upper management.
Source: Information Today, 3 November 2009
06 Nov 2009
Libraries: a copyright guide
A completely new and up-to-date practical guide for people working in libraries and archives in the non-profit, government and corporate sectors. The information in our previous and very popular publication B110 Libraries & copyright will be thoroughly revised and updated, with details about section 200AB (the flexible dealing, or special case exception) and information on how copyright applies in corporate libraries. $40 (including GST and delivery in Australia)
Source: Australian Copyright Council, November 2009
06 Nov 2009
Hold the phone, reality is calling
By Gordon Farrer
Welcome to augmented reality, the digital revolution that integrates location and data. I'm standing at the corner of King and La Trobe streets in central Melbourne, facing the Flagstaff Gardens across the road. I've been here many times but today I'm looking at the gardens in a new way — through my phone. When I point the phone's camera at the gardens, a flotilla of text bubbles pops up and bobs across the screen. Point the camera in a new direction and some bubbles drift out of view as new ones drift in.
Source: Brisbanetimes, 3 November 2009
06 Nov 2009
The Future of Reading
By Tom Peters
The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for learning, for work, and for pleasure may be slowly dying out as a widespread social practice. Only at living history farms will we see people reading. For decades the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has been studying the reading habits of adult Americans, issuing a series of reports with rousingly alliterative titles such as “Reading at Risk” (July 2004) and “Reading on the Rise” (January 2009). Sometime in the 21st century, the NEA may need to issue the sobering final report in the series, “Reading, Rest in Peace.”
Source: Library Journal, 1 November 2009
06 Nov 2009
The Library 101 Project Is Live Now!
Have you seen it? Have you heard the song and seen the music video? Have you read any of the 23 essays from some of the greatest minds in Libraryland (and David King and I too;)? Have you looked at the carefully selected list of 101 hyperlinked resources that share critically important things to think about and know in order to ensure a vibrant future for libraries, even as technology changes the information access and community landscapes?
Source: LISNews, 2 November 2009
06 Nov 2009
November Links
The November edition of the new-look Links newsletter is now available. Links is a newsletter providing updates, highlights, general information and assistance to public library staff within CLS, IKC and Independent libraries. Links will still be released each month and we still welcome your input. We want to hear your stories, your tips, see your photos. Please send your articles and photos to the Public Library Services email pls@slq.qld.gov.au by the 5th of each month to be included in the next issue.
Source: State Library of Queensland, 5 November 2009
26 Oct 2009
Enter the realm of the m-book!
By Jane Sullivan
Once upon a mobile phone ... The Age's Jane Sullivan talks with Marieke Hardy, who has written 'what she believes is Australia's first m-fiction, a story sent out in episodes to mobile phones'.
People register to read her 20-part serial over four weeks. At first, when approached by The Age, Hardy was reluctant to do it. ''I haven't written fiction for a long time. I tend to run scared from a lot of fiction; I feel I write like whoever I'm reading.'' It was a challenge to write a story where each episode was no longer than 350 words. The inspiration for the m-book is the huge success of mobile phone novels in Japan, where millions of youth devour racy romance stories.
Source: TheAge.com.au, 10 October 2009
23 Oct 2009
YouMedia @ Chicago Public Library
A new digital media space designed to give Chicago teens another resource for learning has been unveiled by the Chicago public library. The project aims to connect young adults with books, electronic media and learning institutions from around the city in a single dynamic space. YouMedia @ CPL is an innovative, 21st Century learning space, housed inside the Harold Washington Library, the main branch in Chicago's Public Library system. YouMedia @ CPL was designed to inspire collaboration and creativity by connecting young adults, books, media and institutions from around the city in one dynamic space.
Source: Chicago Public Library, 2009
23 Oct 2009
Positions vacant
Branch Librarians – Gold Coast City Council
Gold Coast City Council's Library Service is seeking enthusiastic professional librarians looking for new challenges and a passion to work in a dynamic library service that is the second largest in Australia. The successful candidates will be motivated leaders with significant experience at a senior level and have the ability to develop a highly skilled team to deliver excellent customer service.
Source: Gold Coast City Council, October 2009
23 Oct 2009
It’s a Video! It’s a Book! It’s a Vook
By Nancy Davis Kho
The march of the digital eReaders continues, and the pace is only expected to quicken. As prices of devices like the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle are lowered, content added, and features improved, analysts see consumer acceptance of eReaders increasing at a faster-than-expected pace. The newest digital reading option entering the fray is the Vook, a video/book hybrid launched on October 1st . Simon & Schuster Vook (http://www.vook.com) to publish four titles exclusively via Vook's newly launched digital book platform, which combines text and video into a single, integrated "viewing experience."
Source: Information Today, 13 October 2009
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