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Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 20, 2009
 I attended this excellent ACRL-NE Information Information Technology Interest Group (ITIG) Social program today, and heard from a number of colleagues about their experiences with mobile technologies in libraries. Speakers included Jenifer Bond & Pat Crawford from Bryant University (talking about their experiences with a loaner Kindle program); Joe Murphy from Yale Science Libraries (whose stance is th...Read More
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Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 20, 2009
Corpus Christi College (Cambridge) and Stanford University Libraries recently released the Parker Library on the Web, an interactive Web-based portal providing online access to the high-resolution digital images of nearly 538 medieval manuscripts of the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College. Manuscripts in the collection span the 6th to the 16th centuries, and the project provides descriptive information on every manuscript page in the collection, al...Read More Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 19, 2009
 I have no idea how they do it, but this is quite amazing: http://www.youtube.com/experiencere(it's fairly loud, so be prepared when and where you open it). More as it happens, in multimedia wonderment, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 18, 2009
 Yep, you heard it right: Google Scholar is now making the full text of a number of U.S. court cases freely available on the web. All you need do to find them is click the new radio button on the GS screen, Legal opinions and journals, then search for the case. I found the full text of the Supreme Court case, Roe vs. Wade, in a couple of seconds with a simple search for "abortion." And the GS record shows how the case has been cited, and gives links to a number of the linked cases.Wonder what effect this may have on the commercial vendors of online case law? More as it happens, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 18, 2009
 For those of you (us) who couldn't afford to attend this year's Charleston Conference, "Necessity Is the Mother of Invention," they're gradually posting videos of a number of the presentations up on their site. There are a couple there already, and more to be added. Of course, this is not a substitute for a trip to Charleston, one of the loveliest cities on the continent, but it's a make-do kind of year, in'it? More as it happens, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 17, 2009
 Naxos Music Library has an iPhone/iTouch app available for free download at the iTunes App Store. The NML app lets subscribers log in to listen to their personal, as well as to account (aka, professor created) playlists. For a direct link to iTunes and more information (such as the Nuts and Bolts of how the app works) check out this Naxos blog post.More as it happens, in an increasingly mobile e-world, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 17, 2009
 Keith Phipps' article, "The Easy Rider Road Trip: Retracing the Path of the Iconic Movie on Its 40th Anniversary," in Slate, was an especially jarring wakeup call this morning. Has it really been 40 years???!!! To quote Charlie Brown, ARGHHH!!!!.Check out the article though, either for the nostalgia value or as a learning opportunity.... More as it happens, on the road virtually, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 16, 2009
 Summon™ has just launched a mobile interface enabling instant searching of a library’s entire collection from an iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm or Windows Mobile device. Researchers affiliated with Summon™ service libraries can search and retrieve digital content (including full-text articles), as well as locate physical materials, from a single search box on their mobile devices. The new mobile interface requires no downloads: users just point their phone’s browser at their library’s live Summon™ site and the interface is then optimized for their phone. Then they can simply key a term into the Summon&tra...Read More
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Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 14, 2009
 EBSCO has released a mobile version of its EBSCOhost® interface: EBSCOhost® Mobile™. The mobile interface gives access to all the databases available on the EBSCOhost interface, allowing searching, full text limiting, searching by date ranges, and other limits. Access is via a persistent link (place it on your library website or portal), or you can give your researchers an ID and password that work with two short urls: m.ebscohost.com or ebscohost.mobi.This is a very big deal, and it will be interesting to hear from EBSCO in the coming months about how much it's being used. More as it happens, anywhere, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 13, 2009
 Credo Reference is going to launch a SAGE Reference Publisher Collection, making nearly 70 SAGE reference titles available through the Credo Reference platform. Access can be by subscription or purchase as either complete collections or as individual titles, with the content integrated into the Credo Reference system. Titles to be offered include: Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and ...Read More
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Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 12, 2009
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Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 12, 2009
 Alexander Street Press just announced that they're releasing a free iPhone application in early 2010 to make their online streaming music collections (including Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries accessible on iPhones and iPod Touches. Patrons of subscribing libraries will then also be able to access ASP video collections via iPhone (i.e., American History in Video, ...Read More
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