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Spectives: A Nice Tool that Abuses Intellectual Property

I found a new tool (via a review at ReadWriteWeb) that offers a visual presentation of changing RSS feeds: Spectives, a "search for visual news." Conceptually, it's quite interesting. Its use of intellectual property is unfortunate. Spectives is focused on visual content. It ignore...

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RSS4Lib — Yesterday

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Internet Librarian Thoughts

I attended my first Internet Librarian conference this past week in beautiful Monterey, California. While my blog posts were infrequent, I soaked up a lot of good information from the presenters. Wednesday morning's session with a panel of three 'born digital' students was fascinating. Why ...

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RSS4Lib — October 29

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Presentation at Internet Librarian

I joined my colleagues, Karen Reiman-Sendi and Mike Creech, in presenting about my library's web site redesign at Internet Librarian 2009 this past week. The presentation, titled "Designing for Content-Rich Sites," was streamed live; an archived copy is available on UStream. If you wa...

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RSS4Lib — October 29

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IL2009: When Students Go Mobile

When Students go Mobile: The Effects of Smartphones on Information Literacy and Academic Library Services Kristen Yarmey-Tylutki Students with smartphones think of them as leisure devices, not academic devices -- only 11% in a recent survey. But this is likely to grow as libraries build more sm...

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RSS4Lib — October 27

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IL2009 D101: Digital library Network -- Roy Tennant

Unfiltered notes from Roy Tennant's talk on Digital Library Network: Perceptions report -- libraries = books Libraries were once center of information universe. Many online catalogs are simply card catalogs on screen. Libraries were built around the idea of scarcity. World today is not this ...

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RSS4Lib — October 26

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IL2009 Keynote: Vint Cerf

I'm recording my mostly unedited notes from Internet Librarian 2009 here. Vint Cerf was interviewed by Paul Holdengraber -- the conversational format made for an entertaining and informative session. I'll comment on one particular point below (where Vint talks about cloud computing); the rest...

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RSS4Lib — October 26