What goes up must come down. This simple law of gravity can been seen in baseball, and these days, the stock market.
As I attended the Web 2.0 conference in New York recently, I had occasion to ask Tim O’Reilly what he thought about libraries. “Well, OCLC’s doing some good things,” he said. I encouraged him [...]
Overdrive’s first annual user group meeting was held in Cleveland, OH July 26-28. Mixing audio book publishers, public librarians, and hardware manufacturers, the gathering showcased innovative uses of digital media and upcoming features from Overdrive. New additions include a wiki for users (dlrwiki.overdrive.com), improved collection development tools with preordering capabilities and RSS feeds, and multilingual [...]
The Libraries and Librarians Flickr group, which populates the front page of this weblog, now has over 750 members and 4000 photos.
And group subscriptions can be exported in OPML format from the Recent Groups page.
Update: A few libraries using del.icio.us.
And the ALA is on flickr.
About
Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
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Zeldman, Jeffrey. Designing with Web standards. Indianapolis Ind.: New Riders, 2007.
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“In this screen-mediated age, the advantages of deep focus and hyper attention are mixed up like never before, since the advantage accrues to the company who can collect the most data, aggregate it, and repurpose it to willing marketers.”
– Are You Paying Attention
22 April 2009
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