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- News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution.
- Written by Ellyssa Kroski.
- You are currently browsing the iLibrarian weblog archives
for July, 2008.
https://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2008/07/
Ten Social Networking Tips for Libraries
Monday, July 28th, 2008
The LibrarianInBlack puts together some stellar tips for libraries who are contemplating establishing a presence within social networking
communities. Each tip is expertly explained to help libraries maximize
the power of social networking websites, check out the full story for
more on these recommendations:
- Do your research.
- Keep your information current.
- Use a photo of a real live person.
- Feel free to have an alias.
- It’s not all about all your friends.
- Suss it up.
- Turn on notifications.
- Have fun!
- Know no fear.
- Deleting accounts is okay.
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The New York Times covers the latest trend in file-sharing in First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry.
Students who are angry about the cost of textbooks are turning not only
to used books, but places like PirateBay.org where they can download
scanned textbooks for free.
I have actually been looking into this topic for my upcoming course
on Libraries and the Open Movement and have come across quite a few
projects with Open Source books which have been made free by their
copyright holders. If you are a student or a professor about to choose
your readings for the fall semester, you may want to consider some of
these choices:
- Make Textbooks Affordable Campaign
- Textbook Revolution
- O’Reilly’s Open Books Project
- Open Source Books from the Internet Archive
- Wikibooks
- Global Text Project
- Flat World Knowledge
- Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Open Textbooks Project
If you know of any other open source textbook projects, please link to them in the comments!
100+ RSS Tools
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Christina Laun from the OEDb puts together the The Ultimate RSS Toolset: 100+ Online Apps and Resources. This annotated resource list is categorized into the following sections:
- Readers
- Personalized Homepages
- Browser Extensions
- Blog Tools and Plugins
- RSS Directories
- Mobile Tools
- RSS Email Tools
- Feed Validators
- RSS Feed Editors
- IM RSS Tools
- Miscellaneous Tools
https://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2008/07/
School Library Journal will be hosting a free Learning 2.0 course hosted by Michael Stephens beginning on Monday, July 21, 2008. Based on the Learning 2.0 23 Things program originally held by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg
County, the program will focus on a new technology each week. By the
conclusion of the course, learners will have had experience with:
Blogs
Podcasts
RSS
Wikis
Flickr
Web Toys
Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
Social Networking Sites
Video Sites
Tagging
Google Apps
The course is free and open to everyone to participate.
Archive for May 2009
many articles about TWITTER