Cheryl LaGuardia
 Cheryl LaGuardia always wanted to be a librarian, and has been one for more years than she's going to admit. She cracked open her first CPU to install a CD-ROM card in the mid-1980's, pioneered e-resource reviewing for Library Journal in the early 90's (picture calico bonnets and prairie schooners on the web...), won the Louis Shores / Oryx Press Award for Professional Reviewing, and has been working for truth, justice, and better electronic library resources ever since. Reach her at: claguard@fas.harvard.edu, where she's a Research Librarian at Harvard University. User Stats
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Portable Libraries, Mobile StudentsNovember 20, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)  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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Parker Library on the WebNovember 20, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) 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 Recent Posts
How Do They Do This? Re: Acciona promoNovember 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)  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 Recent Posts
Google Scholar Making U. S. Court Cases Freely Available on the WebNovember 18, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)  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 Recent Posts
Charleston Conference Videos: Cheaper than being thereNovember 18, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)  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
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