Inspiring Innovation: Creating the Future at the MIT Media Lab…11.30.11

Rewriting the Story of Libraries and Learning Communities…11.30.11

Creating the Library Minute Video…11.30.11

Searching Without Google…11.30.11

China’s Social Media Revolution…11.30.11

Life of a Google Query- Under the Hood…11.30.11

Gamification – Game On!…11.30.11

Google’s New Navigation Bar…11.30.11

This Week in Libraries…11.29.11

Mobile Tech in Libraries…11.29.11

TED Talks – What We Learn Before We’re Born…11.29.11

Digital Campaigns 2011…11.29.11

“Content Marketing is the New Advertising”…11.29.11

British Library Newspaper Archive Puts 300 Years of History Online…11.29.11

British Newspaper Archive

Tablet Computer Owner Demographics…11.29.11

JISC Digital Preservation: Current & Future Work…11.29.11

Networks as Evolving Infrastructure for Digital Preservation…11.29.11

EU Research on Digital Preservation…11.29.11

Google – The Evolution of Search…11.28.11

Envisioning Emerging Technology for 2012 and Beyond…11.28.11

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TED Talks – The Technology of Storytelling…11.28.11

Oxford Bodleian Library – Developments in Catalogs and Data Sharing…11.28.11

Mobilie Solutions for Libraries: Where We Are, Where We’re Going…11.28.11

Augmented Reality for Libraries…11.28.11

New Librarianship – R. David Lankes…11.28.11

 

 

 

 

How to Use Google Search More Effectively…11.27.11

Enter into His Gates with Thanksgiving!…11.24.11

Psalm 100

¹Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

²Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

³Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

⁵For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Happy Thanksgiving…11.24.11

Check out this enlightening proclamation by George Washington, the first U.S. President, taken from The Massachusetts Centinel, Wednesday, October 14, 1789 [modern English text in larger print below]:

The following is the text:

General Thanksgiving

By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of America

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”

NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and assign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed;– for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish Constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;– for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge;– and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also, that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions;– to enable us all, whether in publick or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us); and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

(signed) G. Washington 1789

“It is Well with My Soul” – Richard T. Lang (April 3, 1950 – November 19, 2011)…11.20.11

In 1873, Horatio Spafford wrote the words to the hymn “It is Well with My Soul” after the tragic death of his four daughters. (He wrote it on the ocean while sailing near the spot where his daughters died.)

Due to Emergency Situation Few or No Posts Until November 25th…11.20.11

Due to Emergency Situation Few or No Posts Until November 25th