Defining the Digital Humanities event at Columbia University
Posted: March 31, 2011 Filed under: Academic Librarianship, ArLiSNAP, Lectures, Libraries: Academic Art & Architecture, News, Opportunities: Professional Development, Technology, Workshops | Tags: columbia university, dan cohen, defining the digital humanities, digital humanities, dino buzzetti, federica frabetti, scholarly communication 1 Comment »What do digital humanities scholars see as the potential of this interdisciplinary field?
Find out.
Defining the Digital Humanities
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 12:00-2:00 PM
555 Lerner Hall, Morningside
Guests who do not have a Columbia University ID must RSVP to kp2002@columbia.edu by Tuesday, April 5.
Panelists include Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University; Federica Frabetti, Senior Lecturer in the Communication, Media and Culture Program at Oxford Brookes University, UK; and Dino Buzzetti, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Bologna. More information.
RESEARCH WITHOUT BORDERS EVENT SERIES
The Scholarly Communication Program at CU Libraries/Information Services presents a speaker series for the 2010-11 academic year on today’s pivotal issues in scholarly communication.
Join us for the third year of events exploring changes in how scholars and researchers create, share, reuse, and preserve new knowledge. The series is free and open to the public.
For more info, email Kathryn Pope at kp2002@columbia.edu, or visit http://scholcomm.columbia.edu.
Follow the events remotely on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ScholarlyComm.
Museum Computer Network 2010 – Call for Proposals
Posted: April 13, 2010 Filed under: Museum Librarianship, Opportunities: Calls for Papers, Opportunities: Conferences, Opportunities: Professional Development, Technology | Tags: conferences, Professional Development Leave a comment »The MCN (Museum-Computer Network) annual conference will take place in Austin, Texas Oct 27-30, 2010 and proposals are now being accepted.
- Behind the scenes and transparency in the museum
- Commons and digital collections
- Igniting the Imagination: building communities locally and globally, on-site and online
- Open Source, Open Content, Open Learning
- User-generated and museum content: quality, trust, reputation and relevance
- Integrated communication strategies in print and online
- Bridging the Digital Divide
- Individual Paper: 20-30 min presentation
- Case Study Showcase: 5 minute presentation followed by break-out discussions
- Complete Panel: 3-4 presenters united by a common theme
- Roundtable: moderated discussion of a theme without formal presentations by panelists
- Unconference Session: ad hoc & informal, unconference sessions allow us to address very focused topics and specific needs
Deadline: May 3
For more information visit http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2778
LoC and MS Silverlight
Posted: April 1, 2010 Filed under: Technology Leave a comment »
Free Webcasts from the MCN Annual Conference
Posted: October 29, 2009 Filed under: Museum Librarianship, Museums, Opportunities: Professional Development, Professional Associations, Technology, Web 2.0 | Tags: conference, Professional Development, Technology, Webcasts Comments OffInteresting (and FREE!) professional development opportunity:
The Museum Computer Network is pleased to announce that five MCN 2009 sessions will be webcast live, free of charge. MCN 2009 takes place week after next in Portland, Oregon.
The webcasts will be on Thursday and Friday, November 12 and 13. We’ll use Twitter to harvest online questions during Q&A in those sessions, which are:
Museum Data Exchange
Tweets to Sweeten Collaborations for Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Libraries, Archives, and Museums: From Collaboration to Convergence
Ramping Up while Scaling Down: Strategic Innovation in Challenging Times
2009 Conference Roundup Roundtable
http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2009online has more information.
Short URL http://bit.ly/mcn09oL leads to the same page.
libraries and e-books
Posted: October 15, 2009 Filed under: Academic Librarianship, Discussion, News, Public Libraries, Technology, Web 2.0 3 Comments »Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lending
A recent article in the New York Times highlights ways that libraries are providing access to e-books and digital audio books for their patrons. E-books are certainly gaining in popularity at my institution. Most students actually seemed relieved when a book is online because that means they won’t have to brave the stacks at a large university library!
“Orwellian” Kindle Deletions: Legitimate Copyright Kerfuffle, Giant Yawn, or Teachable Moment?
Posted: July 21, 2009 Filed under: Copyright, Discussion, Technology | Tags: Discussion 4 Comments »Last week, Amazon remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from users’ Kindles. As it turns out, the ebook publisher selling the editions didn’t actually own the rights for these works. As one could imagine, the blogospheric reaction to this event has been a mixture of smirking irony, outrage, confusion, and lots of I-told-you-so. (See the first link above for an excellent overview of the reaction.)
I had a quick succession of thoughts while reading about the deletions:
- ZOMG! Jeff Bezos is stealing your stuff!
- Um, you bought an unauthorized ebook from a shady publisher. Why are you so surprised?
- Wait, how were you supposed to know the publisher was shady?
- Huh, remote deletion wasn’t in the terms of service. But who reads those anyway?
- How can consumers avoid this in the future?
Any ideas for how to address this event with our users? It seems like a great opportunity to talk about DRM, reading legalese before you buy/agree, copyright terms, applying information literacy beyond books, etc.
And as librarians, how can we use news items like this to our advantage? What knowledge and services do we provide that could be particularly relevant in situations like this?
Mobile Technologies
Posted: June 19, 2009 Filed under: Art Librarianship, Discussion, Technology | Tags: Mobile Devices 2 Comments »At my institution, we’re doing a fair amount of thinking about mobile technologies. We have a text-a-librarian service, and a really nice iphone interface for the library catalog. But as we think towards a future of Palm PREs and 3G networks, I can’t help but wonder… is the world of art librarianship ready? Try, for example, searching ARTstor on a mobile device (or even a netbook). Even the Kindle is not particularly suited toward viewing images (let alone *using* those images in a research context).
So… what do you think? Where do we need to go in order to be ready for a mobile research world? Are there examples that we could follow? Are there things that we should push for as a profession? I’d love to hear other thoughts.
A (brief!) Review of the Kindle DX
Posted: June 11, 2009 Filed under: News, Technology 1 Comment »Courtesy of the Gadgetwise Blog at the New York Times:
When I reviewed the Kindle 2 in February, I wasn’t sure if I was ready to get on the e-book bandwagon. Still, I found it to be convenient and just the right size to fit in my handbag. It at least felt like a book. But after toting around the Kindle DX, it suddenly feels as if I am carrying a computer.
Big-Screen E-Readers and the Future of Newspapers
Posted: May 4, 2009 Filed under: News, Technology 3 Comments »Interesting piece in the New York Times about larger e-readers and their potential for reading newspapers and magazines:
The screens, which are currently in the Kindle and Sony Reader, display no color or video and update images at a slower rate than traditional computer screens. That has some people in the magazine industry, in particular, keeping their hopes in check until E Ink evolves.
“I don’t think we would be anywhere near as excited about anything in black and white as we would about high-definition color,” said Tom Wallace, the editorial director of Condé Nast, publisher of glossy magazines like Vogue and Wired. “But technology changes at a pretty high clip these days, and if we are now in the Farmer Gray days, it will be only a very short while until we are in the video game era.”
LITACamp
Posted: February 24, 2009 Filed under: ALA, Opportunities: Conferences, Opportunities: Events, Technology, Web 2.0 | Tags: speed-geeking Comments Offfrom ALA communications:
Have you ever been “speed-geeking”? Been struck by “lightning-talks”? Join your colleagues and our keynoters Joan Frye Williams and John Blyberg at the first-ever, LITACamp, “The Everywhere Library: Creating, Communicating, Integrating,” May 7-8 in Dublin, Ohio.
LITACamp is all about you. Participants determine the topic and format of the sessions on-site, sign up for time slots, and pitch session ideas to all. This format encourages collaboration, interaction, discussion, and real-time innovation. You get to be both a participant and a presenter, discussing and learning about topics you really care about.
The daily keynoters Frye Williams and Blyberg are both known for pushing library technology to directly serve patrons. Their presentations will be designed to stimulate discussions and ideas and energize each days’ sessions.
To register visit www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/litaevents/litacamp/index.cfm
Registration includes Thursday lunch, continental breakfasts, parking and wifi at the conference center and is limited to the first 150. Visit
LITACamp wiki http://litacamp.pbwiki.com and
LITACamp blog http://litacamp.blogspot.com
for the most up-to-date information on the Camp.
LITACamp will be ideal for anyone interested in using technology to improve services and access for patrons. Librarians, information technologists, students and trustees from the user-centered information community are all encouraged to attend this un-conference focused on timely discussions of current library issues as determined by the participants themselves.
LITA, with over 4,000 members, has been serving the needs of the library and information technology community since 1966. Its mission is to educate, serve, and reach out to that community through its programs, publications and other activities. LITA is a division of the American Library Association.
Emerging job trends: Digital Archivists
Posted: February 9, 2009 Filed under: Academic Librarianship, Alternative Careers, Technology Comments OffThought this article published in this past Saturday’s NY Times might be of interest to folk:
Digital Archivists, Now in Demand
WHEN the world entered the digital age, a great majority of human historical records did not immediately make the trip.
As preservation officer at U.C.L.A., Jacob Nadal safeguards materials (digital and analog) in its collection.
Literature, film, scientific journals, newspapers, court records, corporate documents and other material, accumulated over centuries, needed to be adapted for computer databases. Once there, it had to be arranged — along with newer, born-digital material — in a way that would let people find what they needed and keep finding it well into the future. <more>
Search Flickr by Color
Posted: September 29, 2008 Filed under: Images, Technology, Visual Resources 1 Comment »Idee Labs has come up with a way to search Flickr images by color. It’s fun to play with, but might also make some visual resources folks think a bit. We already know that people don’t always search for images by content, and that there are plenty of images that just aren’t easily findable through keyword searches. What if you could find your Rothko images this way?
Check out the multicolor search, as well as others, at:
Common Craft
Posted: March 11, 2008 Filed under: Technology Comments OffHave an internet connection & want an easy way to explain social technologies, etc.? Then try Common Craft.
Common Craft is a consulting company that makes short, instructional videos in an engaging, lo-fi way.
(note: I was going to include their wiki explanation, but I thought there are other social event planners that do a better job for their example.)
PicLens
Posted: March 10, 2008 Filed under: Fun, Images, Technology, Web 2.0 Comments OffHere is a really exciting browser plug-in that makes Flickr and other image sites a lot more fun to view. It could potentially be used for presentations. Pulling images from the hard drive is not officially supported yet, but there is a way to work around this in FireFox. (Thanks to Arno Bosse for introducing me to this plug-in!)
From the PicLens site:
Think beyond the browser
PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Photos will come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes well beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. With PicLens, browsing and viewing images on the web will never be the same again.
NEW! Immerse yourself in 3D Style.
Our new interactive “3D Wall” lets you effortlessly drag, click, and zoom your way around a wall of pictures for an extraordinary, full-screen viewing experience. Why mundanely flip through online photo galleries or squint at thumbnails from Google Image Search when you can fly through an immersive, full-screen experience instead? Learn more.
Watch the World Speak
Posted: February 27, 2008 Filed under: Images: Photographs, Technology 2 Comments »
David Troy, master of the mashup, has created two very addicting sites–Twittervision and Flickrvision.
In both cases, the mashup is between Twitter/Flickr + Google Maps. Because it is animated, it gives it a feel of immediacy and dynamism.
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