Wednesday 31 March 2010
Thinkfree.com
A more serious word processor and good Office 2.0. provider. Well done and enjoy free-thinking during your holidays.
Passion for the poor
Today I experimented with Googledocs, another tool to process texts which are easy to share with others. I picked up a book from our K Tray book and the winner was The 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, the great reformer. Go to K.TRAY.0239 for more details!
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Wikipedia
Now my mood starts to improve a little bit and I have to confess that I use wikipedia every 20 minutes! (citation needed)
Exploring wikis
Exploring wikis can be a good way to learn new things, keeping updated and know more about new trends in professional networks. I had a look the Web 2.0. working party wiki, it has loads of information. Unfortunately I don't have time to read through all the articles and contributions, perhaps in my next life. "RSS in plain english" is a video posted in this wiki, really good!
More Twitter...
I had a conversation using Twitter. It is like a bad version of one of those chat online so I am feeling like a teenager in a cybercafe...
Tomorrow I will try to retweet!
Tomorrow I will try to retweet!
Thursday 11 March 2010
Thursday 4 March 2010
Facebook in libraries
Few words about Facebook, Twitter and the rest...
Well... I joined Facebook two years ago because it was a good way to keep in touch with friends and relatives. At the beginning I did like the idea of sharing photo albums and all that stuff. However, talking about my own experience I have to say I am not a heavy user of these internet tools.
For the library context I have found this piece of literarure! Hope you enjoy it!
What is the relevance of blogs to librarians and to information professionals? The ASIST Professional Guidelines (1992) state that information professionals should seek to extend public awareness and appreciation of information availability. The mission statement in the ALA's (American Library Association) policy manual (2005, adopted in 1986) declares that librarians are recognized as proactive professionals responsible for ensuring the free flow of information and ideas to present and future generations of library users. As such, librarians and information professional should not only provide information on demand and act as intermediaries between the users and the information, but should alert to the existence of novel, relevant information and provide access and facilitate the effective use of resources, technologies and information retrieval tools by users and fellow professionals. An additional responsibility of the information professional is to uphold each user's, provider's, or employer's right to privacy and confidentiality and to respect whatever proprietary rights belong to them (ASIST Professional Guidelines 1992). With the increased complexity of the application of the principles of fair use, copyright, privacy and intellectual property in the electronic world, the information professional must be constantly aware of the developments in these areas. Blogs are ideal for disseminating all types of information chosen by the blogger, for commenting, expressing opinions and for discussing implications. They can also be utilized to provide local information (e.g., changes in opening hours, special lectures and new acquisitions). The findings of this paper show that librarians and information professionals utilize blogs for these purposes.
The potential of blogs for information dissemination has been clearly demonstrated in the last paragraph, but they can only achieve real impact if they attract a significant readership. According to Cyberatlas (Greenspan, 2003), in 2003 only 2% of the online community set up blogs and only 4% of the community read blogs. Data from the PEW Internet and American Life Project (Rainie, 2005) show that the number of bloggers and blog readers is increasing at least in the United States: 7% of the American Internet users have created blogs and 27% said that they read blogs.
Author: Judit Bar-Ilan
Well... I joined Facebook two years ago because it was a good way to keep in touch with friends and relatives. At the beginning I did like the idea of sharing photo albums and all that stuff. However, talking about my own experience I have to say I am not a heavy user of these internet tools.
For the library context I have found this piece of literarure! Hope you enjoy it!
What is the relevance of blogs to librarians and to information professionals? The ASIST Professional Guidelines (1992) state that information professionals should seek to extend public awareness and appreciation of information availability. The mission statement in the ALA's (American Library Association) policy manual (2005, adopted in 1986) declares that librarians are recognized as proactive professionals responsible for ensuring the free flow of information and ideas to present and future generations of library users. As such, librarians and information professional should not only provide information on demand and act as intermediaries between the users and the information, but should alert to the existence of novel, relevant information and provide access and facilitate the effective use of resources, technologies and information retrieval tools by users and fellow professionals. An additional responsibility of the information professional is to uphold each user's, provider's, or employer's right to privacy and confidentiality and to respect whatever proprietary rights belong to them (ASIST Professional Guidelines 1992). With the increased complexity of the application of the principles of fair use, copyright, privacy and intellectual property in the electronic world, the information professional must be constantly aware of the developments in these areas. Blogs are ideal for disseminating all types of information chosen by the blogger, for commenting, expressing opinions and for discussing implications. They can also be utilized to provide local information (e.g., changes in opening hours, special lectures and new acquisitions). The findings of this paper show that librarians and information professionals utilize blogs for these purposes.
The potential of blogs for information dissemination has been clearly demonstrated in the last paragraph, but they can only achieve real impact if they attract a significant readership. According to Cyberatlas (Greenspan, 2003), in 2003 only 2% of the online community set up blogs and only 4% of the community read blogs. Data from the PEW Internet and American Life Project (Rainie, 2005) show that the number of bloggers and blog readers is increasing at least in the United States: 7% of the American Internet users have created blogs and 27% said that they read blogs.
Author: Judit Bar-Ilan
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