Over the weekend, my wife’s mom, Emily, set aside this awesome article from the New York Review of Books. Go Emily!
Read more of "Save The Warburg Library! (With Collections Karaoke)"Over the weekend, my wife’s mom, Emily, set aside this awesome article from the New York Review of Books. Go Emily!
Read more of "Save The Warburg Library! (With Collections Karaoke)"BBC has a brilliant new site, Dimensions, another wonder of design by BERG. It is an effort to communicate scale (of real life events and disasters) in personalized and meaningful, ways. From my POV, it’s the best google maps mashup out there. Again, visit:
Read more of "On the communication of scale. (And respect)"Sorry. A week late with these staff meeting notes :( (Still not sure there’s value in posting them, but that’s not why there was a delay.)
Read more of "Staff meeting notes - Sept. 14, 2010"We’ve spoken a lot about books friending books, people friending books, books updating their status, etc. We’ve even had library circulation events fire a tweet.
Here’s an interesting version of that idea, but for trees: http://talking-tree.com/
A good thought experiment, swapping out book for tree, what would all these fields look like?
XPERT aggregates e-learning materials and makes them available publicly:
Read more of "XPERT e-learning repository"We spent almost the entire status meeting going through the list of projects for which we are planning on applying for Harvard Library Lab grants. This is the first time the Library Lab (note: The larger Library Lab, not our group; our group is changing its name) has awarded grants, so we are all feeling our way.
The Oxford English Dictionary has announced that it will not print new editions on paper. Instead, there will be Web access and mobile apps.
Read more of "OED kisses paper goodbye"This morning we had a very productive conference call (yes, there are such things, you cynics!) with Steve Midgley about the federal Learning Registry.
Read more of "Federal Learning Registry"A study by Gunther Eysenbach in PLoS Biology suggests that open access articles “are more immediately recognized and cited by peers than non-OA articles published in the same journal.” Therefore, he concludes, “OA is likely to benefit science by accelerating dissemination and uptake of research findings.”
The study consisted of comparing citations among OA and non-OA articles published June 8, 2004 – December 20, 2004, in PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Thanks to Don Marti for the link.)