Monthly Archives: March 2009

New digital music system from Indiana University

robinna/ March 31, 2009/ Training, training / tutorials/ 0 comments

this sounds kind of interesting…. —————-Indiana University recently released the Variations digital music library system as free, open source software. http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/variations3/oss-webinar.html Trial version of the Variations client software is available here (as well as a link to a browser-based streaming audio player:http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/variations3/tryout.html For more information about the project:http://variations.sourceforge.net/

OLE (Open Library Environment) Webinar — Free, March 31

robinna/ March 26, 2009/ Libraries, Design, Training, training / tutorials/ 0 comments

With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a multinational group of libraries is developing the design for an Open Library Environment (OLE), an alternative to the current model of an Integrated Library System. OLE Project webcastWhen: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm ESTTopics include an update of OLE activities, community outreach initiatives, reactions to feedback submitted

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Thoughts on the library of the future

robinna/ March 22, 2009/ Libraries, social media, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

One of my colleagues posted a question to his facebook wondering what the library of the future would look like. Here is my unedited response which is a little more casual given the nature of fb discussions : In terms of physical space, it needs to be inviting, and adaptive to a variety of users — easily configurable furniture (by

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What I’m doing when I’m not working (take 2)

robinna/ March 21, 2009/ my art/ 0 comments

Granted this clocks in a little over 4 minutes (sorry!), but you do realize this is several days of footage? ;-D Working on a mixed media piece called Pandora’s Box. Footage from this past fall, speed up 6x, plus a little music from Revolution Void, licensed under creative commons, of course.

medical illustrations and photos free for use

robinna/ March 16, 2009/ Design, my art/ 1 comments

Interesting that they have chosen flickr… so these could definitely be used for art purposes. These are remixable (collage! digital mashup! video!) and shareable by attribution (if I’m reading the cc correctly). “An incredible archive of US Army medical photos and illustrations is being made available free under a Creative Commons Attribution license on Flickr by the National Museum of

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Do you doodle? Do you know why?

robinna/ March 12, 2009/ my art, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Interesting article about doodling:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101727048 I am not sure if because I am a visual learner/artist (or maybe left handed) that I doodle for different reasons, but it is not out of boredom or to help me focus (I use note taking and to-do lists for that — which are very left brained activities). For me, doodling can spiral out of

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Virtual Tour of Ugarama

robinna/ March 11, 2009/ Technology/ 0 comments

kind of cool local project using google maps.http://eits.uga.edu/dms/ugarama Quicktime requiredIt uses the Google Maps API in most places

Librarian’s hand ( a movie)

robinna/ March 5, 2009/ Libraries, that's cool/ 1 comments

So, every year, we do a video. Each year, the library movie has a different theme (2008 — bmovies). I was part of making this movie, but this isn’t my movie (but I have permission to republish it). Ignore my very bad acting…