Wikipedia and Academia
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Posted in For Librarians and Library Staff | No Comments »Read this article: Wikipedia Article in Information Today, Ind.
RSS feeds for new books to order
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 Posted in Book suggestions, For Librarians and Library Staff, Liaisons | No Comments »I'm anxiously awaiting the time when I can let campus faculty and researchers know that they can get UAF libraries new books RSS feeds in their subject areas through the Goldmine catalog. Alas, that is not yet the case. Instead ...
Means of censorship
Friday, September 28th, 2007 Posted in Banned Books, Book suggestions, For Librarians and Library Staff, Uncategorized | No Comments »There are many means of restricting your right to read, including government censorship, banning by religious organizations - see the famous Index Librorum Prohibitorum - pressure by individuals or groups on school boards, but more common methods in recent years ...
Flickr
Friday, September 28th, 2007 Posted in Banned Books, For Librarians and Library Staff, News items | No Comments »Flickr has pictures of lots of library "banned books week" displays; check them out: Flickr
Learning 2.0 #30 - Final Thoughts on Web 2 (and Web 1)
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Learning 2.0 | No Comments »The internet is so rich in information and in tools for sharing knowledge, that no one could ever really call him or herself a "webmaster," a term normally used for a web page designer, but one I don't see used ...
Learning 2.0 #29 Rasmuson web resources
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Learning 2.0 | No Comments »Aha! Finally one Learning 2.0 lesson whose resources I have already utilized extensively, including all of the items! Yay! They're all great too. Try them out. We do good stuff here at Rasmuson, and the more we learn about Web ...
Learning 2.0 #28 New web browser
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Learning 2.0 | No Comments »I downloaded Opera. It was amazingly easy to download, and I love that it just nabbed all my Firefox bookmarks and added them to the new browser! The widgets are fun, but I'm not sure how useful they are yet. ...
Learning 2.0 #25 Google labs/base
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Learning 2.0 | No Comments »I didn't really have anything to post on Google base. It would be nice for someone with no html or other web page knowledge to put information on the web. I looked through Google Labs and didn't see any tools ...
Learning 2.0 #22 Listen Alaska and Project Gutenberg
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Learning 2.0 | 1 Comment »These are great resources. Listen Alaska is a pilot project, but one I hope will continue, and ideally with some major changes, such as allowing iPod users access to these files, and removing the "checkout" and "return" model in favor ...
Learning 2.0 #16 Wikis
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Learning 2.0 | No Comments »I love wikis! They're not the easiest to edit, but once you know what you're doing, they are much better than shared network files, or web pages. We have used our Rasmuson wiki extensively - for procedure manuals, workflow process ...
