Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 10th, 2005
24-Hour Info
We have really become a 24-hour culture. With the growth of the Internet has come an expansion of the time window that people use to communicate or to get information. No longer do people work 8:00 - 5:00 and then go home and forget about work. People often take their work home or even work […]
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
Online Map Programs
This afternoon I posted a review and comparison of the four major online map programs. Not exactly education related, but these programs can help in teaching geography, planning field trips, or even just getting from Point A to Point B. They’re also an essential tool of library reference services. Every Reference Desk should have at […]
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
Library Curse
While technology brings many changes, some things NEVER change. Like the nature of people. The following is a curse found written by the doors of a 16th century monastery library in Barcelona, Spain:
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand […]
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
Checking Links
One of the drawbacks of creating web pages with links to selected websites is the necessity of checking up on those links from time to time to make sure the links are still valid. Websites appear, disappear, and move with alarming frequency. So you’ve made a page with relevant links to quality websites on a […]
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Saturday, October 1st, 2005
Wikipedia As Editor
CNet posted this article recently:
When Esquire magazine writer A.J. Jacobs decided to do an article about the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopedia Wikipedia, he took an innovative approach: He posted a crummy, error-laden draft of the story to the site.
Jacobs decided to craft an article about Wikipedia, complete with a series of intentional […]
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