Monthly Archives: January 2008

convert your life: handy online tools

robinna/ January 31, 2008/ productivity, tools/tips, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Convert: your calendar: If you are exporting a cvs file and need to change it to ical your files (need a different file format?) to pdf html to php your numbers, measurements, & more favorite image to an icon hex to rgb > rgb to hex (colors!) just a few useful things….

Nex Gen Learning Spaces or Why Classrooms are so oldschool

robinna/ January 20, 2008/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

A little hard to follow (looks to be pdf of a ppt) although listening to the accompanying mp3 while viewing the pdfs is helpful. Lots of the campus as “thirdspace” stuff and interesting statistics about use of technology. Webster’s presentation on the Research Library as Learning Space, is kind of interesting. I realize the focus is Nexgeners, but it does

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Flickr & the Library of Congress

robinna/ January 17, 2008/ Cataloging, 3D/ 0 comments

Library of Congress announced today that it has partnered with flickr, putting up 3,000 photos from two of their most popular collections.Only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist are included. The LOC blog post about it is here:http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233 The flickr page is here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

Code4Lib

robinna/ January 14, 2008/ 3D, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

Code4Lib has a new journal:http://journal.code4lib.org/ Also, the conference is coming up in February. It sounds very interesting, but I’m out of travel money. ;-(

wearable electronics, smart clothing, smart accessories

robinna/ January 14, 2008/ life 2.0+/ 0 comments

A while ago, I heard about a new version of my bookbag (an Ipack). I decided when I needed a new book/computer bag, I would definitely look to some of the new smart fabric products. This fabric is not hypercolor. Remember hypercolor? The fabric was heat sensitive and when touched, changed colors. I had a pair of purple socks that

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social networking, library services & web usage – a survey

robinna/ January 12, 2008/ Libraries, social media, 3D, usability/ 0 comments

Interesting survey of 330 students at the University of Michigan; the social networking question was just one question out of the survey. The rest of the survey is kind of interesting, too! ———————–QUESTION: If you could contact a librarian via Facebook or MySpace for help with your research, would you? If not, why? Data/Analysis A total of 23% of respondents

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Library/Web 2.0 Workshops (Feebased; online)

robinna/ January 11, 2008/ 3D, Gamification, Training, web 2.0+, training / tutorials/ 0 comments

Feebased; taught through SolinetXtreme Web Searching (Live Online)2/12-2/13/2008, 10:00 am – 12:00 pmRegistration and Pricing Information:http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=4058&WKSHPID=26XWSLOBecoming a Library Advocate (Live Online) – NEW!2/12/2008, 10:00 am – 12:00 pmRegistration and Pricing Information:http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?mode=preview&doc_id=4799&WKSHPID=26BALOE-Resource Wrangling: An Introduction to ERMS (Live Online)2/12/2008, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pmRegistration and Pricing Information:http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?mode=preview&doc_id=4595&WKSHPID=26ERMLOBasic MARC Tagging for Serials (Live Online)2/12-2/13/2008, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pmRegistration and Pricing Information:http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?mode=preview&doc_id=3937&WKSHPID=05BMTSLOInstant

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