Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Submit your work to the Tech Lab Art Show!

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Attention Artists:

Panopticon, the art librarianship and visual resources interest group, is helping the GSLIS Technology Lab to organize a fall semester show in the lab. We want to provide GSLIS affiliates (students, staff, faculty) with a space to show their art, and we hope this will benefit the community by making the lab a more engaging space.

There is not as yet a particular theme for the show. We would prefer pieces that are ready to hang and we are open to a variety of formats. We hope this will be the first in a series of shows.

Photos, comics, needlework, paintings…if we can hang it we’d like to see it. Send .jpgs to Sarah Burke or Susan Skoog (panopticon@simmons.edu), or put hard copies of your work in Sarah’s folder in the GSLIS student lounge.

We hope to hear from you!

Sarah & Susan

OPAC meets Web 2.0 with Vufind

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Have you checked out Vufind? I did in my attempt to finish my paper this morning. So far I am finding it a bit helpful. This is a new library resource portal designed to enable users to search the library’s resources replacing the library’s OPAC. It combines the following areas.

Catalog Records
Locally Cached Journals
Digital Library Items
Institutional Repository
Institutional Bibliography
Other Library Collections and Resources

I tested it and realized that it was a resource that was potentially helpfu.l I just wished that I had seen it a lot earlier. I would have had more time to test it.

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YouTube and the Invention of Photography

Monday, April 16th, 2007

For those of you interested in the history of photography: YouTube has a 10 minute video clip about the restoration of the home of Nicephore Niepce – it is very interesting and worth watching. The link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcTHpuqQIs