User Experience With Public Library Blogs…02.14.10

Global Knowledge Exchange…02.14.10

“The members of the GKEN community represent over 10 countries, among them United States, Denmark, Great Britain, England, Germany, China, Singapore, and Australia. They include

• researchers and PhD students
• content managers and data experts
• technologists
• copyright and IP experts
• scholarly publishers
• librarians
• bibliometrics experts
• educators/teachers
• education theorists
• educational technology designers and learning environments experts
• information professionals in any organization
• informatics experts
• knowledge managers…”

10 Basic Characteristics of Digital Preservation Repositories…02.13.10

From CRL – 10 Basic Characteristics of Digital Preservation Repositories

1. The repository commits to continuing maintenance of digital objects for identified community/communities.
2. Demonstrates organizational fitness (including financial, staffing structure, and processes) to fulfill its commitment.
3. Acquires and maintains requisite contractual and legal rights and fulfills responsibilities.
4. Has an effective and efficient policy framework.
5. Acquires and ingests digital objects based upon stated criteria that correspond to its commitments and capabilities.
6. Maintains/ensures the integrity, authenticity and usability of digital objects it holds over time.
7. Creates and maintains requisite metadata about actions taken on digital objects during preservation as well as about the relevant production, access support, and usage process contexts before preservation.
8. Fulfills requisite dissemination requirements.
9. Has a strategic program for preservation planning and action.
10. Has technical infrastructure adequate to continuing maintenance and security of its digital objects.

The key premise underlying the core requirements is that for repositories of all types and sizes preservation activities must be scaled to the needs and means of the defined community or communities.

SocialTALK – Managing Diffuse Social Media…02.13.10

BookDrive Pro for Mass Digitization…02.13.10

I am starting to learn details about the new BookDrive Pro book scanner from Atiz which I will be using soon for a mass digitization project:

Phishing Flowchart for Email…02.12.10

This is a useful infographic from Lifehaker

Consider Lifestreaming…02.12.10

Amazing Google Liquid Galaxy Demo…02.11.10

Google Buzz vs Facebook vs MySpace vs Twitter (Feb 2010)…02.11.10

From Jeremiah Owyang’s Matrix: Google Buzz vs Facebook vs MySpace vs Twitter (Feb 2010):

Libraries Developing Their Own Open Software…02.10.10

Global Think Tank Ratings from 2009…02.10.10

According to the new Think Tanks and Civil  Societies Program  survey, here are the TOP 15 global think tanks:

 1. Brookings Institution – US
 2. Council on Foreign Relations - US
 3. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - US
 4. RAND Corporation - US
 5. Cato Institute - US
 6. Chatham House - UK
 7. International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) - UK
 8. Heritage Foundation – US
 9. Center for Strategic and International Studies – US
10. Peterson Institute for International Economics - US
11. International Crisis Group - Belgium
12. American Enterprise Institute - US
13. World Bank Research Department - US
14. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - US
15. Amnesty International – UK

Google Announces New “Ultra High Speed” Fiber Network…02.10.10

“Facebook Factlook” Infographic…02.10.10

(Click on image for larger version)

From Mashable!

Building Information Dashboards…02.10.10

Using Netvibes as an intelligent dashboard to handle information overload in a 3-part video by Howard Rheingold:

Florida Public Libraries Show Increased Return on Investment (ROI)…02.10.10

(Graphic from Preliminary ROI Brochure)

The NEFLIN blog reports:

“This from State Librarian, Judi Ring. ’I am happy to release to you the new data on the 2010 public library return on investment study. The new ROI is $8.32 for every dollar invested in Florida’s public libraries. UWF [University of Western Florida]  is working on the final report and analysis of all data collected but we wanted to get the basics out to all of you as quickly as possible.’  The $8.32 figure is an increase from $6.54 (2004 ROI Study.)…”

QR Codes Successful With Detroit Red Wings Hockey Fans…02.10.10

QR codes are beginning to take off in the U.S.  Here is an excerpt of a post from Mashable!:

“The Detroit Red Wings are a socially savvy bunch. The NHL team recently started including QR codes in their in-arena distributed Red Wings Today program, and the effort is proving to be a big hit with fans in attendance.

After seeing Esquire’s use of augmented reality, the team decided to get creative and make their print program interactive (embedded below) to include digital media accessible via QR codes.

The codes in question appear in the program and include a prominent call to action that reads, ‘Smartphone interactive, scan here.’ A mobile device scan of the QR code brings up the following video for fans to watch instantly:

What’s more important is that the experimental approach to a traditionally old-fashioned print publication is paying off big-time. Fans are actually using QR code bar scanners on their mobile devices to access the video, and sticking around to enjoy it….”

[For posts on QR CODES AND LIBRARIES, search my PREVIOUS QR CODE POSTS]

NEW – Google Buzz…02.09.10

Facebook Fan Pages With Largest Following Are “Humanized”…02.09.10

Here is an excerpt from an excellent posting by David Lee King titled Humanizing Your Facebook Pages:

“…Why do these Pages have more friends? Glancing through them, it looks like they are doing one thing – they are humanizing their Facebook Pages. What do I mean by that?

They’re ‘doing stuff.’ Stuff like this:

• Posting regular status updates
• Interacting with visitors in the comments of status updates – some status updates have 20-30 comments, as well as “Likes”
• Pointing to stuff that’s happening in the library (ie., lectures)
• Regularly add photos and videos – sometimes hundreds of them.
• They use Facebook’s Events feature to list events…

Basically, activity attracts Facebook users. Think of your Facebook Page like a party. Anyone ever attended a dead party? If there’s nothing going on, the party goers quickly find an excuse to leave, because the party is boring, right? In the same way, if your Facebook Page has no updates … your party is boring, and you are inviting your students to go do something else.

This is easily fixable if you do one simple thing. Post an update every day, and make it interesting…”

Aquabrowser Library Catalog in Bruges Library…02.09.10

Library Digital Reference…02.09.10

Search Everything 2010 Olympics…02.09.10

Searching for 2010 Olympics information, visit Vancouver 2010

FREE Online Webinar – The Future of Libraries, Books, and Reading…02.09.10

From OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries):

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT:

FiLBeRt Roundtable Discussion: The Future of Libraries, Books, and Reading

The shared futures of libraries, books, and reading seem very hazy at present. Join us for a monthly, lively, informal discussion of new developments, challenges, and opportunities. It’ll be a roundtable, so everyone is welcome to chime in…

Host: TAP Information Services

Location: OPAL Auditorium

Alfresco – Open Source Content Management…02.09.10

The “Long Tail” of Online Video Sites…02.09.10

From TechCrunch post The Long Tail of Video Sites Capture Half of All Viewing Minutes:

“…According to comScore’s 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review, more than half of all time spent watching videos on the Web (52 percent) last year was on Long Tail video sites beyond the top 25.  What you see is a real barbell distribution, with Youtube on one end and the Long Tail sites on the other.  Total video views more than doubled between December, 2008 and December, 2009, from 14 billion to 33 billion streams. So there is hope yet for niche video producers…”

Make It Digital – Digitization Resource…02.09.10

This is from the post DigitalNZ launches Make It Digital regarding a source for digitization (of course, “digitisation” for our British & commonwealth friends–Eh?):

“…we’ve recently launched the Make it Digital website, a one stop shop to help people create NZ digital content.

The site is focused on creating and sharing New Zealand digital content, which we’re tackling in two ways:
1. The Guides and Ask a Question sections are designed to help people who are trying to create new digital content, or digitise their stuff. We hope that some of you will be able to share your expertise by answering others’ questions, and helping us to write and update the guides.
2. The Voting section – It’s a public forum for people to share their ideas for new NZ digital content, with voting and commenting functions. There’s some great ideas in there already that you can vote on, for example, School Journal, New Zealand music artwork and Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives…”

“Measuring the Value and Effect of Learning 2.0 Programs in Libraries”…02.08.10

FREE Webinar “Developing a Social Strategy by Objectives”…02.08.10

From Jeremiah Owyang’s Web Strategy blog:

“Organizations that focus on social technologies suffer from the symptom of ‘Fondling The Hammer‘ .  True social strategy stems from business objectives –not the latest technologies.

So often, companies develop social tactics based on the latest tool that’s sprung forth.  Yet, so far and few in between to organizations develop an actionable plan based on business goals.

This second in our no-cost webinar series is coming up on the topic of social strategy.  In the spirit of open research, we’re leading a discussion in public, and encourage you to join, learn, and share with others. Co-hosting with Charlene Li, we’ll be hosting a no-cost webinar to discussin how companies can develop a social marketing effort that meet business goals.

Although not a requirement, our sessions build off each other, read, watch, and listen to our previously recorded session, we discussed how companies should really understand their customers before entering the social space.

Register: Developing a Social Strategy by Objectives, Hosted by Altimeter Group
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST…”

Google Working on Language Translator Phone…02.08.10

From Australia’s Herald Sun article Google Leaps Barrier With Translator Phone:

“The Sunday Times of London reports that by building on existing technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation, Google hoped to have a basic system ready within a couple of years.

If it worked, it could eventually transform communication among speakers of the world’s 6000-plus languages.

The company already created an automatic system for translating text on computers, which was being honed by scanning millions of multi-lingual websites and documents.

It added Haitian Creole last week to bring the language total to 52.

Google also has a voice recognition system that enabled phone users to conduct web searches by speaking commands into their phones rather than typing them in.

Now it was working on combining the two technologies to produce software capable of understanding a caller’s voice and translating it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language.

Like a professional human interpreter, the phone would analyse so-called packages of speech, listening to the speaker until it understood the full meaning of words and phrases before attempting translation…”

Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Meet 21st Century Skills…02.08.10

Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Meet 21st Century Skills – Presentation & Digital Repository: eTech Ohio – Ohio Educational Technology Conference

Simmons GSLIS to Offer “Extending Mobile Library Services with QR Codes” Online Workshop…02.08.10

Extending Mobile Library Services with QR Codes

June 1 – 30, 2010
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)

Are you experiencing mobile delivery services for your library or library department? Are you looking to extend more mobile offerings further? QR codes offer many exciting and easily implementable opportunities and possibilities.

The first week of the workshop will cover the basics of QR codes – what are they, and how to do they work? Week two will cover devices and software, cost-effective library set-ups, and simple QR code knowledge mashups. In the third week, we’ll explore how QR codes function out in the world, linking together people, knowledge, and physical locations in an interactive manner. During week four, we’ll cover building QR code applications for your library, examining 20 different QR code applications that librarians can easily and cost-effectively implement at their libraries.

Workshop participants will leave the course with a solid understanding of the basics and mechanics of QR codes and 20 easy ways to implement QR codes in their libraries and communities. This is a self-paced four week workshop with discussion and email support. Workshop materials will be available to participants after the conclusion of the workshop, should they wish to explore any of the subject areas in greater depth.

Instructor: Bonnie Peirce is Head of Children’s Services at the Dover Town Library and was recently profiled in Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers as a ‘Web 2.0 guru’. Bonnie is the founder of B3OK, an open global mobile knowledge network connecting the physical and digital worlds. She is an avid advocate for incorporating new media tools and mobile devices into public library services; wizardhere@gmail.com