Tags: libraries
Tags: libraries
ALA2008 Privacy Revolution Panel
Posted Monday June 30, 2008, 12:34 am, Over one day old at The Shifted Librarian
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Reblogging the ALA Privacy Panel
Posted Friday June 27, 2008, 12:34 am, Over one day old at The Shifted Librarian
Jessamyn West has a longer explanation on Librarian.net, and I think it’s probably easier if everyone just posts their questions there, although I will definitely ask any relevant questions posted here, too.
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Implementing the Prototype (Thinkering Spaces III)
Posted Tuesday June 24, 2008, 12:33 am, Over one day old at The Shifted Librarian
We all agreed that there needs to be some starter content for users to play with from day one, and while the intent is to provide an unstructured, informal learning environment, I think there’s also some hope that students will be able to use it to collaborate on schoolwork, too.
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Where I?ll Be Gaming at ALA
Posted Monday June 23, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old at The Shifted Librarian
The biggest one is the - wait for it - “big” game, “ California Dreaming.” I posted about this on the ALA Marginalia blog so you can get the details there, but I’m thrilled to see that more than 100 people have already signed up.
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Mashing Up Content in the Library (Thinkering Spaces II)
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008, 1:33 pm, Over one day old at The Shifted Librarian
We could then mash up these pictures with text, sounds, and other digital content to create a narrative, a presentation, a document, or just explore them all together. Could families create genealogical histories this way and mash them up with community resources?
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Berkman lunch: Anne Balsamo on Designing Culture
Posted Wednesday June 11, 2008, 12:53 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
So, these notes will be especially inadequate, as well as getting things wrong, missing stuff, etc. ] Her book touches on technological imagination (how we engage the materiality of the world), technological innovation, and the reworking of culture. She talks about working the paradigm shift.
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Decorated paper
Posted Friday June 6, 2008, 12:53 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
Tanya Schmoller, whose collection of 19th century job titles I blogged about a couple of days ago, pointed me to the beautiful Schmoller collection of decorated papers. Decorated Web pages just don’t measure up. [Tags: tanya_schmoller books libraries ]
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Scan and Release: Digitizing the Boston Public Library
Posted Saturday May 31, 2008, 12:53 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
Although some in the BPL may have thought that digitized prints and photos are just lesser-qualities backups, the group knows that they’re not only bringing hidden images into the public sun, they are engaged in a social project that changes how and what we know.
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Ou Est La Doctor Who Bibliotheque?
Posted Wednesday May 28, 2008, 12:32 am, Over one day old at The Shifted Librarian
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More on How Gaming Promotes Reading and Library Usage
Posted Monday April 21, 2008, 12:31 am, Over one day old at The Shifted Librarian
But the games are age-appropriate and can help to interest kids in books, Wyant said. The library has restricted gaming hours to between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. because parents complained that their children were spending too much time at the library and not focusing on their studies.
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