What’s the difference between a mission and a vision? How’s a purpose different from a goal? Does the corporate mission last forever, or does it change over time? If you’re confused about any or all of these, it’s not your fault. Via John Hovell 
Classic Books of the Read.gov website...Explore books of eras past and read online. Via Carmel Galvin SLASA Harvard Online Referencing Generator– Junior (abridged), Middle and Senior levels - Creates citations for a comprehensive range of sources – copy & pa... Via SCIS 
Over the past several years, the education debate in America has increasingly become a conversation about technology. As we've seen the benefit of having tablets and smartphones in our lives, we've started to pin to it our hopes for our nation's education system, as well. Recently this talk has reached something close to a fever pitch. In January, Apple announced that it would be working with major education companies (including McGraw-Hill) to develop academic titles specifically for the iPad, inspiring a wave of blog posts and tweets hopeful for education's rescue. The FCC took things one step further in March, convening a meeting in Washington with several key players with the goal of driving adoptions of digital textbooks in K-12 schools across the country. Via Dave Brown "Over the past couple of years, I’ve been trying to collect every good piece of writing and advice about verifying social media content and other types of information that flow across networks. This form of verification involves some new tools and techniques, and requires a basic understanding of the way networks operate and how people use them. It also requires many of the so-called old school values and techniques that have been around for a while: being skeptical, asking questions, tracking down high quality sources, exercising restraint, collaborating and communicating with team members." Via Howard Rheingold 
This is a 15 minute presentation I'm giving as part of a panel for the Reynolda House Museum of American Art National Advisory Council meeting.
more here http://laurenpressley.com/library/2012/04/this-library-is-not-a-place/ ; 
..."Typically reference (in larger departments) is staffed by specialists. People might focus in on one or five disciplines and target those departments. Of course, a reference librarian has to be generalist enough to answer any question that comes to the desk, but specialize for upper-level questions. My departments, for example, are Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies.".... 
Libraries have acted as community cornerstones for millennia, and every April marks School Library Month, celebrating how they promote education and awareness in an open, nurturing space. What makes them such lasting institutions, though, isn’t the mere act of preserving books and promoting knowledge. Rather, it’s the almost uncanny ability to consistently adapt to the changing demands of the local populace and emerging technology alike. Via Karen Bonanno, Kent Wallén "AckSeer is a beta automatic acknowledgment indexing search engine that explores automatic identification, entity extraction and indexing of acknowledgements from papers. In addition acknowledged entities are extracted within the acknowledgment passages. Via João Greno Brogueira 
This post is part of “How We Will Read,” an interview series exploring the future of books from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals. Read our kickoff post with Steven Johnson... |
"Creativity is driven by Social dynamics. Via Karen Steffensen, michel verstrepen 
Another free professional development opportunity from the OER Foundation Via pru 
As part of our Big Data efforts, we have a team focused on Hadoop that is working hard to ensure Hadoop runs well on vSphere. We published a paper last yea... Via Armando Reis 
The Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF) and the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), along with the American Library Association’s Office for Library Advocacy and the Washington Office, is asking that every single person in the country who cares about libraries contact their U.S. Senators Via Karen Bonanno
Libraries have acted as community cornerstones for millennia, and every April marks School Library Month, celebrating how they promote education and awareness in an open, nurturing space. What makes them such lasting institutions, though, isn’t the mere act of preserving books and promoting knowledge. Rather, it’s the almost uncanny ability to consistently adapt to the changing demands of the local populace and emerging technology alike. Via Karen Bonanno 
What began as an experiment 10 months ago is now showing up in nearly one of every five Google search results. I’m talking about authorship — Google’s use of the rel=author markup to identify content creators next to their content. Via Phil Bradley ![Personal Branding With Social Media [Infographic] | Information Science and LIS | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/izFYTgQ7hN96Basmi9jQoTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Personal Branding With Social Media Infographic via Chris Voss
Why having the right social media tools matter:
"Social media tools have the tremendous power to put you in contact with thousands of people in order to build your online brand you need to know all of the possibilities, as well as how all of your activities are working together.
It's important to be consistent so that each part of your social media network is contributing positively to the brand you are trying to build.
Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Busines and Beyond"
See full infographic here: [http://bit.ly/JMXlS0] Via janlgordon 
"We’re also pretty useful in the classroom. Embedded librarians can add an entirely new level of depth to a class. Even if not embedded, librarians can help faculty identify really useful works to support their class. These can be publicly available, through the library, or even rare books and archival material that students might never even imagine looking for on their own. Librarians can help collaborate on assignments. We have lots of good tips for how to make an assignment that’s difficult to plagiarize, and we definitely can help faculty plan the library research part of the assignment to fit with the collections students have access to. And if we don’t have the collections the faculty member wants, through discussions and collaborations we can often identify what they do need and get the source for future use..." Via Buffy J. Hamilton A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. This video is a great primer for discussing human and environmental interactions as related to industrialization, globalization and climate change. Via Seth Dixon, Ph.D., dilaycock 
On blog e-Learning Stuff, an unidentified blogger writes about a recent conference he or she attended at which discussion was had of the “Kindle... Via Carmel Galvin "Most of the world relies on 50-year old energy systems. Smart grids could be the next step. They are digitized energy networks..." |
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