Twitter update (10/17/09 - 11/13/09)
Tweets from the @OCLC twitter account from 10/17-11/13.
-
Reputation enhancement redux (Lorcan Dempsey's weblog)
- OCLC RDA resources: w/ webinar recording & signup for Nov. 19 session
- VIAF -- Expanding the concept of universal bibliographic control. In this month's OCLC NextSpace.
- Google incorporates some World Bank API data into search results (ReadWriteWeb)
- 40% of people "friend" brands on Facebook, 25% follow brands on Twitter (ReadWriteWeb)
- Amazon debuts Kindle for PC (CNET)
- charticle. n. A news article consisting of a chart or graphic with a small amount of explanatory text (Word Spy)
- Veteran's Day tomorrow. Featured CONTENTdm digital collection: Arkansas Korean War Project
- @JISC Recommendations for sys join-up could make finding research easier: A JISC-funded study
- RT @echildress And the wall came tumbling down. WorldCat.org search: su:Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 History
- Ars Technica on Firefox's fifth anniversary
- NextSpace 13 now online. Ripple Effect, VIAF, Web Scale, WC Digital Collection Gateway, stats & more.
- RT @geekthelibrary The great public library reinvention.
- Conference in Librarianship in Chile (A View of South America)
- The Age of Mega Content Sites (ReadWriteWeb)
- Report: Social Isolation and New Technology (Pew Internet & American Life Project)
- Ars Technica reviews the OpenMoko WikiReader
- RT @oclcdevnet: More photos uploaded from WorldCat Mashathon Seattle
- OCLC Distinguished Seminar Series Presents, "Memento: Time Travel for the Web," with Herbert Van de Sompel on 11/19
- 7 data visualization groups on Flickr. Good for inspiration & thinking creatively about data (FlowingData)
- Register for the free, 1-hour webinar, "RDA and OCLC" Thursday, 11/19 at 1pm (EST)
- Beyond the Record with RDA (Metalogue)
- A report on the use of online video sharing sites within blogs
- For Those About to Mash, We Salute You (OCLC Developer Network)
- TV Finds That a Mortal Foe, the DVR, Is Really a Best Friend (NYTimes.com)
- friendsourcing: pp. Gathering info, recommendations, & feedback from a trusted group of online peers (Word Spy)
- Library of Congress opens historic newspaper API
- Study: books overtook games in iTunes store in September 09 (and now make up 20% of all new apps)
- Getting smarter about archives and special collections (hangingtogether.org)
- Our own Lucia Shelton received the Carmen Carneiro Excellence and Incentive Award for helping Latin Amer. libraries disseminate information.
- On the discriminations of availability (Lorcan Dempsey's weblog)
- How to Avoid Malware on Facebook and Twitter: 8 Best Practices
- Google Wave Use Cases: Education
- The Market, the Commons, and the Library of Congress (Metalogue)
- @lorcanD RT @chronicle: Columbia & Cornell Libraries Announce 'Radical' Partnership
- Google's new Social Search surprisingly useful (Ars Technica)
- Recorded presentation: Drake University's digital collections w/ Bart Schmidt, Digital Projects Librarian [OCLC]
- New Center at UC Irvine to Seed Research and Collaboration on Digital Media and Learning
- Does the Brain Like E-Books? 5 opinions (NYTimes.com)
- Untangling the library systems environment (Lorcan Dempsey's weblog)
- Research support services (Lorcan Dempsey's weblog)
- Bing launches beta Twitter search
- HP, UMich deal offers reprinting of rare & out-of-print books from M's library (Ars Technica)
- Freescale Semiconductor announces deal with E-Ink; lays groundwork for e-paper color and animation
- RT @lorcanD @OpenUniversity: Develop your information skills with the OU Library
- Twitter and Status Updating (Pew Internet & American Life Project)
- Library Users and Non-Users: A Bibliography from the OCLC Library. (WC List)
- OCLC member institutions in Europe, Mid East & Africa - call-out to nominate for Global Council
- eLearn: Feature Article - How Tiny Camcorders are Changing Education
- Issue 12 of OCLC eNews is out - news for and about libraries in Europe, Mid East, Africa and OCLC
- Nook: B&N Android e-reader will allow peer-to-peer eBook lending (Ars Technica)
- UK Government opens data to public
- RT @zbriceno @wsulorena @atyourlibrary: 2009 Teens' Top 10 list from @YALSA and @Worldcat
- peep culture: n. in which people display (and take pleasure in watching) the minutiae of daily life. (Word Spy)
- NPR's content management solution: COPE--Create Once, Publish Everywhere (ProgrammableWeb)
- Spring Design announces dual screen (E-Ink and LCD) E-book reader
- Archive and related resources from September 30, 2009 webinar on virtual reference (WebJunction)
- Making the Nat'l Air & Space Museum's Poster Collection Accessible Online (blog) (collection)
- October trend briefing: "NOWISM: why currency is the new currency" (Trendwatching.com)
