LiB Recommends – 2010-09-26
September 27, 2010
- Don’t forget that October 1 is Follow A Library Day! On Oct 1st, Tweet about your favorite twittering library & tag w/ #followalibrary. http://bit.ly/bSGhuP
- Join me at the Library Journal event this week “ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point” – Wed Sept 29th from 7am-3pm PST http://ebook-summit.com/
- Staff and customer training resource! Great listing of upcoming webinars on all sorts of topics, many free: http://www.webinarlistings.com/
- Google’s being dumb. Google is turning off the track changes feature in Google Reader for pages without RSS: http://bit.ly/cDbuiH
- Kindle Android app now has voice search & annotations. This is how eBooks *should* be done. (from @mashable): http://mash.to/2IPP9
- Pew piece on Rise of Apps Culture; how has it affected libraries? http://bit.ly/9AiJyh (via @ALA_TechSource)
- From @kishizuka: 1 in 10 Americans use an eReader; 1 in 10 likely 2 get 1 in nxt 6 months http://bit.ly/btGlyq Harris Poll
- @wawoodworth says: “Woot! FCC to fast track fiber to schools and libraries” http://t.co/fAJlVEj via @arstechnica. And Sarah says “The unicorns cheered!”
- 5 Reasons Why It’s More Fun Being a Disruptor http://bit.ly/bKjcDm via @buffyjhamilton, via @webmaster_ref
Wisdom from @DAVID_LYNCH, the ever-brilliant and predictably-eccentric: “See the job. Do the job. Stay out of the misery.” - Government Website Usability Guide (via @ALA_TechSource, via @Lonewolfmls) – http://bit.ly/cnVnb7
- A Discussion with William Gibson on Boxee (found via @msauers) – http://bit.ly/8Ym7Sz
- Magical fix for those really horrible, ugly, badly-designed websites! From @mashable: Change Any Webpage’s Design Instantly w/ Chrome Ext Stylebot – http://mash.to/2HIv5
- I was too tired for this @creativecommons event but it’s online! Talks from CC Salon SF on community participation. http://bit.ly/bPl7bG
- Twitter Beefs Up Navigation with More Great Keyboard Shortcuts – http://lifehacker.com/5643974/
- Blogged by @wawoodworth: Vertical Advocacy in Libraryland. The tendency to advocate for only one type of library. http://bit.ly/a9WC1r
- 12 Best Ways to Customize Your Facebook Pages (from @TechCrunch): http://tcrn.ch/chJzjq
- The LibraryLaw Blog’s smart take on using Netflix in a library setting (by Peter Hirtle): http://bit.ly/apV0vO
- If you haven’t played with the YouTube Time Machine yet, please do: http://yttm.tv/y/1977 Check out what was going on the year I was born!
- “Working-Class Heroes in Literature” from @UtneReader http://bit.ly/btfJ1v (via @ghardin)
- HTML5 Mobile Web Development http://t.co/uO5UuWi via @oreillymedia, via @vacekrae
- Musopen is a great public domain music project currently fundraising and getting more than they thought they would! http://www.musopen.com/
September 28th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Thanks for tweeting about us and noting us above!!
-Rachel Levy-