Posted in News, Weekly Bytes.
Tagged with apple, asis&t, bytes, copyright, cyberterrorism, Google, information, law, legal, overload, weekly.
By Luke
– February 2, 2010
Here is the third installment of our Weekly Bytes series for the GSLIS community. Please enjoy this recent library tech news:
Posted in News.
By Amy Deschenes
– January 19, 2010
Here is the second installment of our Weekly Bytes series for the GSLIS community. Please enjoy the following resources, many of which have a mobile technology theme:
- Free Webinar on Mobile Learning – This 1 hour virtual session covers the emergence of Mobile Technologies and its game-changing effects on how we learn.
- 7 Tips to make your web site mobile-friendly - This covers some great points on how to take your current web site and make sure it is ready for viewing on the growing population of mobile devices.
- Top 10 Mobile applications for 2012 - This lists includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their own and haven’t yet seen widespread adoption as well as the already common technologies that are still experiencing growth.
- Digital Native or Not? Learning Computers Later in Life – This is a great post by the New York Public Library that talks about the different ways to keep current on technology trends at any age.
- The New Media Consortium’s Horizon Report 2010 Preview - The report preview organizes topics by “time to adoption” and includes a description of the topic; the relevance for teaching, learning, and creative expression; examples of how the topic is being applied, and suggestions for further reading.
- Complete Guide to Google Wave – Have a Google Wave account? Confused as to what to do next? Check out this free comprehensive guide where you’ll learn the ins and outs of how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group.
- Memento: Time Travel for the Web – This presentation introduces the Memento solution to allow time travel on the Web using the Library of Congress.
- Google Image Swirl – Google Image Swirl combines a variety of image similarity features with additional metadata about the images to build a hierarchy of clusters of image search results.
- Appvent Calendar – This is a neat advent calendar of free iPhone and iPod Touch games that are available for the whole month of December in the Apple App Store.
- Apple Gift Giving Guide - Here are 10 great holiday gifts perfect for the Apple fan in your life, compiled by the writers at Mashable. They run the gamut from stuff that touts an Apple fan’s devotion to those just add a little bit of flair to an existing Mac.
Have a great week!
~Linnea
Posted in Weekly Bytes.
Tagged with apple, asis&t, bytes, digital, Google, google wave, GSLIS, horizon report, mobile technology, native, Simmons College, weekly.
By Linnea Johnson
– December 7, 2009
About two years ago Witchita State University implemented dynamic animated maps in their online catalog. I’ve seen libraries with links to maps in their catalogs before (like BC), but never so intricate and fun. If you visit their catalog here and do a search, click on a record, and then click on the “Find Where It Is” link, you will be able to view the maps.
The project team has even outlined the project plan and execution details online here.
Posted in News.
By Amy Deschenes
– December 1, 2009
Visualization seems to be the theme of the week, so let’s finish it off with a 20-minute TED talk from one of the most influential data visualization specialists out there:
Hans Rosling shows you the best stats you’ve ever seen
Since being bough by Google in 2007, Rosling’s Gapminder software has powered some Google spreadsheet gadgets, which means you can use these visualization techniques if you don’t mind keeping your data in Google Docs. Gapminder.org says that a desktop version is “in development.”
Posted in TED Thursday.
By Shannon
– November 19, 2009
One of my favorite examples from yesterday’s tutorial is the Dashboard from the Indianapolis Museum of Art. What a fantastic way to demonstrate value to insiders and outsiders alike.
I’m unclear on their methods for generating the Dashboard – the page source seems to suggest that values are hard-coded into each widget (and presumably updated by hand).
Does anyone know more about the technical details of this project or others like it?
Posted in Special libraries, Wednesday Spark.
By Shannon
– November 18, 2009
Libraries collect a lot of data that encompass complex networks about how users navigate through online resources, which subjects circulate the most or the least, which resources are requested via interlibrary loan, visitation patterns over periods of time, reference queries, and usage statistics of online journals and databases. Making sense of these complex networks of use and need isn’t easy. But the relationships between use and need patterns can help libraries make hard decisions…
What if our transaction logs looked more like this?
Read more from Not Just Another Pretty Picture by Hilary Davis.
Do you have any data to present? If you try out one of Hilary’s tools, leave us a link!
Posted in Tutorial Tuesday.
By Shannon
– November 17, 2009
Looking for an easy way to get involved with ASIS&T at Simmons? Have a hard time making it to campus for meetings? Help build our online community by volunteering to add content or manage events on this blog!
I will be graduating in just one month, and I would love to hand this project off to someone who is also excited about building our online presence.
If this sounds like fun to you, or if you have any questions, send me an email.
Posted in News.
By Shannon
– November 16, 2009
Can’t make it to Vancouver this weekend? You can still watch the tweets scroll by at #asist09 .
Posted in News.
By Shannon
– November 6, 2009
ASIST