Next Week is National Library Week…04.06.11

Information 2.0 and Beyond…04.06.11

Keeping Your Private Information Private…04.06.11

New from TED Talks: Leadership from General Stanley McChrystal…04.05.11



May 4, 2011 – Third Annual International Day Against DRM…04.05.11

May 4, 2011 – Third Annual International Day Against DRM

“The Day Against DRM is an opportunity to unite a wide range of projects, public interest organizations, web sites and individuals in an effort to raise public awareness to the danger of technology that requires users to give-up control of their computers or that restricts access to digital data and media. This year, we’ll be helping individuals and groups work together to create local actions in their communities — actions will range from protesting an unfriendly hardware vendor to handing out informative fliers at local public libraries!”

Quora – A continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it…04.05.11

FREE E-Book Social Hackathon…04.03.11

You can download that eBook or watch videos from the panel here.

A Guide For the Perplexed Part IV: The Rejection of the Google Books Settlement…04.03.11

 

A Guide For the Perplexed Part IV: The Rejection of the Google Books Settlement

Helping You Buy Integrated Library Software…04.03.11

Virtual Library Conferences…04.01.11

New York Public Library Mobile Game…04.01.11

From CNN:

“When Jane McGonigal was 21 and a bit listless, she went to the New York Public Library to reinvent herself. She read up on computer science and physics and used that knowledge to apply to a graduate program in game design in California.

‘It’s just the kind of space where you come inside and you feel something,’ she said of the library. ‘You almost feel like you could think bigger thoughts or dream bigger dreams.’

Now one of the world’s hottest game designers, McGonigal is trying to recreate that experience with a smartphone-based game called “Find the Future,’ which combines a real-life scavenger hunt at the library with digital challenges.

The game’s website goes up Friday at 9 a.m. ET and the actual game begins on May 20. Starting Friday, though, people can enter a contest to become one of the game’s first 500 players. Those people will get to stay in a New York library overnight on May 20 to kick off the game, which continues through 2011…”

April Fools Day By The Numbers…04.01.11

Qr Codes in Libraries With David Lee King…04.01.11

10 Things to Emulate from Japan…04.01.11