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Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Emergency planning survey
Dear Colleague,
As part of an on-going research project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, we are seeking responses to a brief survey on the roles librarians could play in emergency planning and response activities. This information will be used to help develop appropriate learning experiences for current and future practitioners.
The survey asks you to rank the appropriateness of a variety of possible roles that have been identified for librarians. The answers should reflect your personal opinion about the appropriateness of the roles; they do not need to reflect an actual role that you have played. You will also have a chance to provide more detailed comments about additional roles that you believe librarians could/should play in emergency planning and response activities.
The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. Data will be kept confidential, and the results of the survey will only be reported in the aggregate.
Here is a link to the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0ir_2f1rFDWnsCUJDhitFL3w_3d_3d
If you have any questions regarding the survey or the research project, please contact:
Dr. Lisl Zach
Assistant Professor
The iSchool at Drexel
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875
lisl.zach@ischool.drexel.edu
Cataloging tutorial
I think I may have posted this before but if not, here it is.
A cataloging tutorial
1: Basics: Terminology, concepts in cataloging
2: LC call numbers : Introdution to LC call numbers, includes LC call numbers interactive quiz; locations in the UGA Libraries
3: Data organization & MARC: Overview of data organization, MARC, and introduction to GIL record structure includes MARC quiz, tutorials, and a movie
4: GIL search : GIL searching tips, exercises, and demos
5: GIL records : Types of records (bib, holding, item); Hierarchy; includes a demo
6: Editing in GIL : brief overview of editing in GIL, includes demos
7: Tools : Investigative tools including WorldCat (interactive tutorials) and GALIN; secrets of the catalog
8: Review: Links to demos, exercises, and interactive tutorials
Resources: Glossary, Links
MARC Cheatsheet (word document format)
A-Z Cataloging Terminology (word document format)
A cataloging tutorial
In order to view the interactive features, LiveWeb must be installed and you must have an internet connection.
INSTALLING LIVEWEB DIRECTIONSClick here to download the add-in. Save the file (lwsetup.exe) to your computer (saving it to the desktop makes it easy to locate). Doubleclick on the saved file, lwsetup.exe, to begin the installation. If you receive any security warnings during loading this add-in, not to worry (it's been approved for use)!
Topics covered within the tutorial:
1: Basics: Terminology, concepts in cataloging
2: LC call numbers : Introdution to LC call numbers, includes LC call numbers interactive quiz; locations in the UGA Libraries
3: Data organization & MARC: Overview of data organization, MARC, and introduction to GIL record structure includes MARC quiz, tutorials, and a movie
4: GIL search : GIL searching tips, exercises, and demos
5: GIL records : Types of records (bib, holding, item); Hierarchy; includes a demo
6: Editing in GIL : brief overview of editing in GIL, includes demos
7: Tools : Investigative tools including WorldCat (interactive tutorials) and GALIN; secrets of the catalog
8: Review: Links to demos, exercises, and interactive tutorials
Resources: Glossary, Links
MARC Cheatsheet (word document format)
A-Z Cataloging Terminology (word document format)
Friday, July 24, 2009
Going to the Movies (NC Archives)
sounds cool!
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Going to the Show (http://docsouth.unc.edu/gtts/) documents and illuminates the experience of movies and moviegoing in North Carolina from the introduction of projected motion pictures (1896) to the end of the silent film era (circa 1930).
Through its innovative use of more than 750 Sanborn® Fire Insurance maps of forty-five towns and cities between 1896 and 1922, the project situates early moviegoing within the experience of urban life in the state's big cities and small towns. It highlights the ways that race conditioned the experience of moviegoing for all North Carolinians- white, African American, and American Indian. Its collection inventories every known N.C. African American movie theater in operation between 1908 and 1963.
Supporting its documentation of more than 1300 movies venues across 200 communities is a searchable archive of thousands of contemporaneous artifacts: newspaper ads and articles, photographs, postcards, city directories, and original architectural drawings for 24 movie theaters built between 1922 and 1952.
An in-depth case study of moviegoing in Wilmington, North Carolina, takes you back to 1906 and the experience of attending one of the state's earliest movie theaters, the Bijou. A time line displays profiles of every known movie venue to operate in the city between 1897 and 1950.
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Going to the Show (http://docsouth.unc.edu/gtts/) documents and illuminates the experience of movies and moviegoing in North Carolina from the introduction of projected motion pictures (1896) to the end of the silent film era (circa 1930).
Through its innovative use of more than 750 Sanborn® Fire Insurance maps of forty-five towns and cities between 1896 and 1922, the project situates early moviegoing within the experience of urban life in the state's big cities and small towns. It highlights the ways that race conditioned the experience of moviegoing for all North Carolinians- white, African American, and American Indian. Its collection inventories every known N.C. African American movie theater in operation between 1908 and 1963.
Supporting its documentation of more than 1300 movies venues across 200 communities is a searchable archive of thousands of contemporaneous artifacts: newspaper ads and articles, photographs, postcards, city directories, and original architectural drawings for 24 movie theaters built between 1922 and 1952.
An in-depth case study of moviegoing in Wilmington, North Carolina, takes you back to 1906 and the experience of attending one of the state's earliest movie theaters, the Bijou. A time line displays profiles of every known movie venue to operate in the city between 1897 and 1950.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Support your library (a poster for a lib poster contest)
Okay, so I know that literacy is still a big issue and I know the digital divide still exists, but this poster was done for a library poster contest. The original size is 16" x 20". The style requirement was WPA. ;-)
Several folks have suggested I put this on cafe press, so maybe I will. Also, this is a lower quality, watermarked image. If you want a larger clean version, drop me a line at georgiawebgurl@gmail.com
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Kodak ceases production of kodachrome ;-(
Kodak to Stop Making Kodachrome
By MIKE BARRIS
Eastman Kodak Co. will discontinue its iconic Kodachrone color film this year due to tumbling sales as photographers embrace newer Kodak films or digital imaging technology.
Kodak introduced the amateur color film in 1935 and it became the first commercially successful color film. But sales are just a fraction of 1% of the company's still-picture film revenue. The company doesn't break out such figures, but the segment in which Kodak's film sales are recorded had first-quarter revenue of $503 million.
That 31% drop from a year earlier highlights the woes the company has been undergoing. The company thought that when it completed a wrenching multiyear transition to having a digital focus at the end of 2007 that its restructuring was behind it. But a continued sales slump has resulted in more retrenchment -- Kodak in January announced plans to cut another 3,500 to 4,500 jobs, as much as 18% of its work force, this year.
Kodak estimates that current supplies of the film will last until early this fall.
The last rolls of the film will be donated to George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, which houses the world's largest collection of cameras and related artifacts. In addition, Steve McCurry -- known for a 1985 photo of a young Afghan girl peering from the cover of National Geographic magazine -- will shoot one of those last rolls and the images will be donated to Eastman House.
The Kodachrome output stoppage is another sign of the company's transition -- by 2004, the company that marketed its first snapshot camera in 1888 had stopped making film cameras.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124567093975236801.html
By MIKE BARRIS
Eastman Kodak Co. will discontinue its iconic Kodachrone color film this year due to tumbling sales as photographers embrace newer Kodak films or digital imaging technology.
Kodak introduced the amateur color film in 1935 and it became the first commercially successful color film. But sales are just a fraction of 1% of the company's still-picture film revenue. The company doesn't break out such figures, but the segment in which Kodak's film sales are recorded had first-quarter revenue of $503 million.
That 31% drop from a year earlier highlights the woes the company has been undergoing. The company thought that when it completed a wrenching multiyear transition to having a digital focus at the end of 2007 that its restructuring was behind it. But a continued sales slump has resulted in more retrenchment -- Kodak in January announced plans to cut another 3,500 to 4,500 jobs, as much as 18% of its work force, this year.
Kodak estimates that current supplies of the film will last until early this fall.
The last rolls of the film will be donated to George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, which houses the world's largest collection of cameras and related artifacts. In addition, Steve McCurry -- known for a 1985 photo of a young Afghan girl peering from the cover of National Geographic magazine -- will shoot one of those last rolls and the images will be donated to Eastman House.
The Kodachrome output stoppage is another sign of the company's transition -- by 2004, the company that marketed its first snapshot camera in 1888 had stopped making film cameras.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124567093975236801.html
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The death of IE6
If you haven't been following all of the IE6 news of late, Youtube seems to be the most recent site to discontinue support for IE6:
http://tinyurl.com/mpmu5y
Mashable says that in order for the web to progress, IE6 must go (and briefly explains the major issues with IE6):
http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/
...and if you really hate IE6, you can always join the death to IE6 movement. ;-)
http://iedeathmarch.org/
http://tinyurl.com/mpmu5y
Mashable says that in order for the web to progress, IE6 must go (and briefly explains the major issues with IE6):
http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/
...and if you really hate IE6, you can always join the death to IE6 movement. ;-)
http://iedeathmarch.org/
Monday, July 20, 2009
Various links: academia online, sustainability of digital projects, LC and Cloud storage, web tools & more
Link roundup... Lots to read and consider and ponder....
Very cool...Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.
http://academicearth.org/
a multi-year, international exploration of the strategies being used to support digital initiatives over the long term.
http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/strategy/ithaka-case-studies-in-sustainability
Social networking site for researchers aims to make academic papers a thing of the past
http://www.physorg.com/news166943362.html
LC tests cloud storage
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10286280-62.html
Yahoo pipes... if you haven't played, you should!
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Data rot. sigh.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/01/sunday/main4836569.shtml
Google to launch operating system to compete with Windows
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8139711.stm
Yay? I don't know -- both are still commercial companies.
An unofficial Q and A about the Discontinuation of the XHTML2 WG
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/xhtml2-html5-q-and-a/
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Old fashioned (ha!) film is better
.... at least for now. Digital even affects how I think about photography.http://www.thewrap.com/article/even-digital-age-studios-find-old-fashioned-film-best_4353?page=1
Sunday, July 12, 2009
iphones and digital libraries
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/wolfwalk/
"WolfWalk
Overview
A pilot project to create a mobile application that enables users to explore NC State campus history using a location-aware map-based interface. The application supports a map view (using Google Maps) with geotagged placemarks for approximately 60 major sites of interest on the NCSU campus, and a browse view for quickly locating a known site by name. Each site has several historical images associated with it that are sourced from NCSU Special Collections Research Center digital archives. The first phase of the WolfWalk project will focus on deploying a "native" iPhone application available for free download from the iTunes App Store. Subsequent phases will explore the creation of a mobile website interface for non-iPhone mobile devices, and expanding the content included in the digital collection."
"WolfWalk
Overview
A pilot project to create a mobile application that enables users to explore NC State campus history using a location-aware map-based interface. The application supports a map view (using Google Maps) with geotagged placemarks for approximately 60 major sites of interest on the NCSU campus, and a browse view for quickly locating a known site by name. Each site has several historical images associated with it that are sourced from NCSU Special Collections Research Center digital archives. The first phase of the WolfWalk project will focus on deploying a "native" iPhone application available for free download from the iTunes App Store. Subsequent phases will explore the creation of a mobile website interface for non-iPhone mobile devices, and expanding the content included in the digital collection."
Saturday, July 11, 2009
changes in facebook privacy
Interesting article about the upcoming changes in facebook privacy. I'm not surprised facebook is moving towards public feeds, because as the article puts it:
Facebook holds a giant reservoir of demographic and sentiment data. It is the mother lode - and it's been inaccessible so far because everything has been private so far.
http://tinyurl.com/lgpfh8
For public entities and organizations such as libraries, universities, etc. a public feed might make facebook more useful for outreach and education. However, for the general user or private organizations, I can see where the changes will be huge, especially, if facebook doesn't clearly explain how to opt out or restrict the public feed.
Facebook holds a giant reservoir of demographic and sentiment data. It is the mother lode - and it's been inaccessible so far because everything has been private so far.
http://tinyurl.com/lgpfh8
For public entities and organizations such as libraries, universities, etc. a public feed might make facebook more useful for outreach and education. However, for the general user or private organizations, I can see where the changes will be huge, especially, if facebook doesn't clearly explain how to opt out or restrict the public feed.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Metadata introduction (presentation)
Presentation for a group on metadata... for a general audience. There is also a cataloger/library staff flavor version, too.
Metadata an overview
View more presentations from robinfay.
Monday, July 6, 2009
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