Accessibility Overview Series (SSBART Group) Web Accessibility Basics Tuesday, May 21st 2-2:30 PM EDT / 11-11:30 AM PDT Space is Limited – Register Now! Building on the Concepts webinar, this presentation will explore in more detail core web accessibility topics such as non-text elements, page structure, navigation, keyboard access and forms. Acrobat Accessibility Basics Tuesday May 28th 2-2:30 PM EDT /
Perhaps, this is the beginning of a standard format for ebooks and better access for ebooks and readers. YES! “So with one fell swoop, in the form of a software update being rolled out today, B&N is eliminating that downside. It’s giving both Nooks the Google Play stores for apps, music, movies and books, plus key Google apps which the
Big Data Infrastructure Colloquim (Compiled by Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl ; http://www.contentdivergent.blogspot.com) http://calendar.uga.edu/detail/big-data-infrastructure-colloquim1/ NFS funded projects supporting data-enabled science & engineering Predictive Analytics center of excellence (pace) UCSD kubrary on digital curation projects (library) Data intensive vs. computational – Focus on memory and bandwidth traditional system re: archival data archival data difficult to access; difficult to share archival data by multiple
at least for now… hopefully, they will continue to improve it before Google pushes it out as mandatory, but hey what do the users know? The “new” blogger interface still kind of sucks (tho it does have some enhanced design features). Click>Compose At the bottom of the compose screen> click on More Options.Choose Temporarily switch back to old compose Learn more
a few things to do/read tonight… read and reflect: the life and death of artist, mike kelley http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324678604578340322829104276.html google spring cleaning – todo! http://mashable.com/2013/03/15/google-spring-cleaning/transitioning from google reader to feedly http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/Scavenge my delicious bookmarks for pinterest http://delicious.com/georgiawebgurlexplore: Bib frame for periodicals https://listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/d_read/ontologie-patrimoine/PRESSoo_01.pdfmarvel – Photographer To The Tsar: The Russian Empire In Color http://www.rferl.org/media/photogallery/24928691.html
Hey there, Don’t forget – Lyrasis members – FREE (only 25$ for nonmembers)! Session on Linked data, FRBR, BibFrame, RDA = intro to the Semantic Web for libraries. FRIDAY! Join me for a learning lunch! This session is part of the LYRASIS second Friday series, a series of workshops providing information about and sharing new ideas and resources for resource
I realize I am playing into marketing by even talking about this COMMERCIAL (embedded below). However, this particular commercial, featuring a “whispered” fight over oreos which ends in destruction of a library and the fire department arriving, seems to have hit a nerve with various communities. I’m seeing starting to see some conversations about this commercial as well as quite a
2011 10/6 – GLA/COMO Paper presentation “The effect of automation on academic library staffing: A discussion” (co-author); Maximizing Your Social Media Presence: Tools and Tips to Save You Time and Effort (Presenter) 10/5 – USG Staff Council Conference – Using Technology to Improve Customer Service (Speaker) 9/20 – Social Media for Government – Tools You Can Use To Leverage Social
I know I’ve been woefully lax about posting to contentdivergent lately. Lots of news and updates coming soon. I attended the International Literacy Conference (presented on the ACRL literacy standards for Visual literacy through a lens of digital objects, specifically images), presented at COMO (metadata in a social world; linkeddata) and attended a regional IT conference. I did not make
One of my twitter followers (@Ted Coine) posted this thought on today: It takes a stunted imagination to think your people will maintain a constant sense of urgency. Interesting thought, isn’t it? It resonated with me because one of my favorite sayings is, If everything is important, then nothing is important. Ok, so, does that mean we actually have work that is