I saw this URL for a flickr site featuring images related to librarianship on Newslib. Many are in German. Some are funny. I like this one about budget cuts. The tombstones say things like books, school books, the city archive, and the city library. I think the imagery is effective. The collection includes the Honda [...]
The Cornell Center for Materials Research hosts this service allowing people to ask scientists, well, science questions. The July 15 Internet Scout Report recommends perusing the hundreds of answered questions in the archives. The site tells who answered the question and what the person’s credentials are. The answers I read were written in a style [...]
Jenny lists technology skills librarians should have. I just answered a survey from a library and information science student with a question about tech skills esssential for news librarians. Had I seen this list earlier, I would have just pointed her here.
I would add IRC (Internet Relay Chat), audiocasting (webcasting, podcasting, etc.), virus/computer repair software, [...]
Friday’s Internet Scout Report describes Tristana Reader 4.0 as a tool people can use to easily pull content from the Web to their computers. It’s a free aggregator for Windows machines that handles podcasts, RSS and Atom feeds, and other content. The company also makes Tristana Writer, a way to create feeds, and Tristana Publisher, [...]