june 2012

Ohio Ebook Project: Website Redesign

http://www.ohioebooks.org/

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Inkling’s Online Ebooks

https://www.inkling.com/read/professional-chef-cia-9th/chapter-14/ch14-method-in-detail-1

“As with other browser-based systems, OverDrive Read will enable publishers, authors and retailers to benefit from more direct engagement with readers and to gather data about how users are discovering, browsing and selecting eBooks and catalogs through OverDrive global channels.” [Emphasis mine]

OverDrive: E-reading in the Browser

http://www.teleread.com/library/overdrive-introduces-browser-based-ebook-reader/https://penelopiad-18893a.booki.sh/

• Search and browse a single comprehensive catalog with all of a library’s offerings at once, including all e-books, physical collections, programs, blogs, and donor opportunities. Currently, content providers often only allow searches within the products they sell, depriving users of the comprehensive library experience.

• Place holds, check-out items, view availability, manage "nes and receive communications within individual library catalogs or in the venue the library believes will serve them best, without having to visit separate websites (libraries, not distributors, should be enabled to manage all interactions with users).

• Seamlessly enjoy a variety of e-content. To do this, libraries must be able to choose content, devices and apps from any provider or from multiple providers, without bundling that limits a library’s ability to serve content they purchase on platforms of their choice.

• Download e-books that are compatible with all readers, from the Kindle to the Nook to the iPad and so on.

Demanding Better Ebook Services

http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/06/ebooks/top-libraries-in-u-s-and-canada-issue-statement-demanding-better-ebook-services/

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Makerspace Projects

http://makerspace.com/projects/sample-projects/http://www.hive13.org/

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Badges & BadgeStack

http://www.learningtimes.com/what-we-do/badges/

Mozilla’s “Open Badges” Project

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badgeshttp://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2011/12/20/yalsa-podcast-104-badges-for-lifelong-learning/

“...aimed at generating newfound excitement for librarianship and increasing the awareness of the many opportunities that an MLS degree can provide.”

Librarians in Metaspace

http://slim.emporia.edu/index.php/new-slim-comic-takes-librarians-into-metaspace/http://slim.emporia.edu/docs/slim_comic.pdf

Dig.CCMixter: Open Licensed-Music

http://dig.ccmixter.org/about

Deal or no deal? Depends on your tablets.

Verizon’s new Share Everything plan

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/12/verizon-introduces-share-everything-service-plan-for-up-to-ten-devices/

Check your password at leakedin.org

LinkedIn Passwords Leaked

http://shi!ett.org/blog/2012/jun/leakedin

Xbox 360 & SmartGlass

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3064855/microsoft-xbox-smartglass-preview

The GamePad

The Wii U is Coming

http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/6/4/3063175/e3-2012-wii-u

HBO Go? No Cable? Then no Go.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/hbo-says-no-for-now-to-fans-who-want-a-web-only-option/

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Teaching Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

http://chronicle.com/article/4-Professors-Discuss-Teaching/132125/

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“Books Recommended by Me” - largeheartedboy

http://pinterest.com/largeheartedboy/largehearted-boy-approved-books/http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/

Thorough run-down of mobile tech, social media, internet search, and reading studies.

Libraries in 2020

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/suny-libraries-talk

The new library inside the high school — scheduled to open in 2013 — marks the start of what could be a groundbreaking partnership between the Chicago Public Schools and a public library system that absorbed 50 percent of the layoffs in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s "rst budget.

The library cuts were so great, they prompted the January resignation of longtime Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey.

The community library will have its own entrance, teen-only space and public reading garden. It will be open six days a week and staffed during school hours by city librarians working alongside a full-time, CPS teacher librarian responsible for ensuring that the library collection meets the needs of the IB curriculum.

Chicago: Where to locate a new library?

http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/13139438-418/library-in-new-back-of-the-yards-hs-to-be-open-to-public.html

How a book burning party saved a library

Save Troy’s Library

http://youtu.be/nw3zNNO5gX0http://www.effie.org/winners/showcase/2012/5940

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Social Media Meme Me

http://www.journalism.org/index_report/how_pop_tune_became_hottest_social_media_meme

Get Featured in the Press

‣ Negativity – Sad or negative news stories are often newsworthy.‣ Positivity – Positive stories are also very newsworthy, particularly towards the publications

supported agenda (politics for example).‣ Proximity – Events that happen close to the publications audience are seen as more relevant.‣ Recency – Events that happened recently are seen as more newsworthy.‣ Continuity – On-going stories are often newsworthy.‣ Uniqueness – Events that are unique or shocking are of more newsworthy than events that

happen every day.‣ Simplicity – Simple stories are easier to communicate than complex ones.‣ Personality – Stories that communicate on a personal level and affect the publications

audience are more relevant than those that don’t.‣ Predictability – Unpredictable events are often more interesting than those that are

predictable.‣ Exclusivity – Exclusive stories everyone interested in the story to a single publication,

making the publication more money than if all publications were to feature the story.‣ Magnitude – Stories that affect a large number of people are considered to be more

newsworthy.

http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/06/an-indie-musicians-guide-to-getting-featured-in-the-local-press/

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Hello Rdio. (Goodbye Freegal?)

http://evolver.fm/2012/06/06/how-streaming-music-will-change-culture-for-the-better/https://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/resources/rdio.aspx