NEW PEW RESEARCH REPORT: The Fate of the Semantic Web…05.06.10

Click on image to read the new Pew Research Report “The Fate of the Semantic Web“

Teens And Mobile Technology Use…05.06.10

Mobile Trends for Libraries…05.05.10

NEW – Reader’s Advisory Handbook…05.05.10

Reader’s Advisory Handbook

Part I Getting to Know Your Materials
Chapter 1 How to Read a Book in Ten Minutes, Jessica E. Moyer
Chapter 2 Nonfiction Speed Dating, Sarah Statz Cords
Chapter 3 How to Listen to a Book in Thirty Minutes, Kaite Mediatore Stover
Chapter 4 How to Read a Graphic Novel in Five Minutes, Erin Downey Howerton
Chapter 5 Keeping Up: Genre Studies as Continuing Education, Lucy M. Lockley

Part II Reviewing and Evaluating Materials
Chapter 6 Reviews and Annotations for Fiction and Nonfiction, Lynne Welch
Chapter 7 Reviewing Audiobooks, Sue-Ellen Beauregard
Chapter 8 How to Review Graphic Novels and Manga, Jessica Zellers
Chapter 9 Reviewing and Evaluating Reference Materials, Jessica E. Moyer

Part III Marketing, Promoting, and Sharing Materials
Chapter 10 Passive Readers’ Advisory: Bookmarks, Booklists, and Displays, Lissa Staley
Chapter 11 Creating Themed Booklists, Lynne Welch
Chapter 12 Read-Alikes, Lynne Welch
Chapter 13 Book Group Kits, Lissa Staley
Chapter 14 Taking Readers’ Advisory Online, Bobbi Newman

Part IV Programming
Chapter 15 Book Groups, Kay Sodowsky
Chapter 16 How to Host Author Events, Paul Smith
Chapter 17 Adult Storytime, David Wright

Part V Expanding Readers’ Advisory Services
Chapter 18 Readers’ Advisory by Proxy for Teens, Heather Booth
Chapter 19 Readers’ Advisory for Older Adults, Alicia Ahlvers
Chapter 20 Readers’ Advisory for Incarcerated Populations, Kate Pickett and CJ Sullivan
Chapter 21 Suggesting Adult Books to Teen Readers, Jessica E. Moyer
Chapter 22 Suggesting Teen Books to Adult Readers, Heather Booth

Bodleian Library Ephemera Collection Digitization Project…05.05.10

“The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera is the product of a unique partnership between the Bodleian Library and ProQuest to conserve, catalogue and digitise more than 65,000 items drawn from the Bodleian’s John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. The project, which has been funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) through its Digitisation Programme, will broaden access to a wide array of rare or unique archival materials documenting various aspects of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”

Easy Teaching 2.0 Tools…05.04.10

Oil and Water Don’t Mix…05.04.10

California Digital Library…05.04.10

Lesser-known iPad Feature Important for Libraries and Librarians – White on Black…05.04.10

More on QR Codes and Libraries…05.03.10

Interesting update post from Lorcan Dempsey from OCLC on resources for QR Codes titled QR Codes Again…

ALA’s Choose Privacy Week Begins…05.03.10

Beginner’s Guide to Zotero…05.03.10

Librarian Attitude & Behavior…05.02.10

From Ed Batista’s post Attitude, Behavior, Cognitive Dissonance and Authenticity

Watch Phone Review – SpecialOps Cell Phone Watch Review…05.02.10

Library Technology Planning…05.01.10

NEW–Hubble Space Telescope New Views of the Universe…05.10.10

Hubble Space Telescope New Views of the Universe

Also, check out the HubbleSite

Graduate Library Schools – Digital Librarianship Ranking…05.01.10

Library and Information Studies Specialty Rankings: Digital Librarianship

Ranked in 2009 by US News & World Report:

1	University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
2	University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
3	University of Washington Seattle, WA
4	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY
	University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
6	Drexel University Philadelphia, PA
7	Indiana University–Bloomington Bloomington, IN
8	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ
9	University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
	University of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD

iPad Use Study With UNC Students Feedback…05.01.10

Previously, I reported on the study going on at the University of North Carolina of giving iPads to students, here is the feedback (click on image)