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On November 5, 2008 NEASIS&T sponsored an event at Simmons entitled Mobile Mania, which was designed to address the new challenges mobile devices pose for information service providers. Speakers were invited to share their experiences of developing innovative ways to deliver content and embed services within these new virtual environments. Andrew Yu, the Mobile Devices Program Manager at MIT spoke on the development of MIT’s Mobile Web.

NEASIST's website

Sponsoring organization's website.

Simmons' ASIST website

More about the Simmons student chapter.

MIT Mobile Web

More information about MIT's Mobile Web.

Kevin MacLeod / Chill

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Robert Wolfe is a professional librarian and information architect who has worked in the field of educational technology since 1999. He received his MLIS from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 2001. He is currently the Head of the Metadata Services Unit at the MIT Libraries. Metadata Services is a cost recovery consultancy that offers information organization services to the education community. These services are: /information architecture/ including data modeling, taxonomy development, and user experience design; /metadata systems design /including metadata storage, serialization, and production workflow solutions; and /project management/ including metadata production training, production management, and quality assessment. On June 12, 2008 he delivered a lecture entitled “The Semantic Library: RDF in Practice” at NEASIST’s annual Awards Dinner at MIT.

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SIMILE

Semantic Interoperability of Metadata in unLike Environments

Babel

Format Converter developed by the SIMILE Project

Longwell

A SIMILE demo by MIT Libraries.

PLEDGE

PLEDGE Project wiki

W3C Semantic Web Activity

Simple Knowledge Orgranization System

Open Archives Initiative

Object Reuse and Exchange

Kevin MacLeod / Fork and Spoon

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Gavin Baker is a SPARC Outreach Fellow and has developed SPARC’s “The Right to Research” student outreach campaign. He is an assistant editor at the Open Access News blog, community manager of “Open Students,” a blog for students about Open Access, and a columnist in Science Progress. As a student, he co-founded University of Florida’s Students for Free Culture chapter, served on a National Students for Free Culture board, and was elected to the university’s Student Senate. In large part because of this work, University of Florida passed the first university-wide resolution supporting open access. On May 27, 2008 he presented a talk entitled “The Right to Research” in the Beatley Library at Simmons College.

SPARC Right to Research

Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition's student outreach program.

SHERPA RoMEO

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving.

OAIster

A union catalog of digital resources.

SerialSolutions

Librarians creating solutions for librarians.

DOAJ

Directory of Open Access Journals.

Open DOAR

Directory of Open Access Repositories

ROAR

Regitrsy of Open Access Repositories

Kevin MacLeod / Porch Blues

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On March 28th 2008 in Amherst, MA Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia, delivered a lecture titled “The Googlization of Everything.” The event was part of the third annual Digital Quadrangle Series Colloquium and was sponsored by the UMass Amherst Libraries, Office for Research, Center for Teaching, Graduate School, and Office of Outreach.

A cultural historian and media scholar, Siva Vaidhyanathan is the
author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press,2001); and The Anarchist in the Library: How Peer-to-Peer Networks are Transforming Politics, Culture, and Information (Basic Books, 2003).

He is co-editor of Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

After five years as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Vaidhyanathan has taught at the University of Texas, Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and New York University.

He is currently associate professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia and writing his next book, The Googlization of Everything, a critical examination of Google’s disruptive effect on culture, commerce, and community on a public website/blog produced by the Institute for the Future of the Book.

Sivacracy

Siva's blog

The Googlization of Everything

Website/blog of The Googlization of Everything project/book

Institute for the Future of the Book

project co-sponsor website

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Anne C. Moore, the Associate Director for User Services at
UMass Amherst spoke on March 15th 2008 at the Simmons College GSLIS West campus in South Hadley, MA. Ms Moore discussed the far reaching success of the Learning Commons at Umass Amherst and how that success has changed the role of librarians on campus.

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Slideshare website.

beat combo 9 game over/Oriolgos

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