Hello readers,Just a quick word to tell you I am on Aardvark, which is like a social reference question answering website. It’s pretty cool if you need a good answer pretty quickly. Here’s a link to my Aardvark profile, and feel free to join up and add me, check it out, etc!http://vark.com/s/KWATHave a great weekend!
Archive for the ‘Applications’ Category
February 11, 2010
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Aperture 3
By Jason W. Dean in Apple, Applications, TechnologyFriends, I have not fallen into some abyss, nor has any malady befallen me. I was simply trying to use the trial version of Aperture 3, released earlier this week. Well, to make a long story short – the program is a computer vampire, and only now can I really use my computer. So, my [...]
January 29, 2010
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New Fun Photos from the Library of Congress
By Jason W. Dean in Applications, Culture, Digital Libraries, Digitization, Library, TechnologyOne of the most interesting things that the Library of Congress has been up to over the past few months is their Flickr uploads. Their most recent uploads from the New York Herald are wonderful, and I’ll share some of my favorites below. Here’s a link to their photostream, where all these images come from:Library [...]
December 17, 2009
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Top 10 Things That Are Being Killed Off By Digitalization
By Jason W. Dean in Applications, Digital Libraries, Digitization, Librarianship, Library, TechnologyOne of the most interesting library-related lists I have seen recently is this list:Top 10 Things That Are Being Killed Off By Digitalization, by Richard.That’s all I have today – you might also want to look at the discussion in the comments beneath that post – some good thoughts there. What do you think is [...]
November 18, 2009
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The Social Media Revolution
By Jason W. Dean in Applications, Culture, Librarianship, Library, TechnologyIt seems to me that one of the information needs that we librarians can help our patrons with is social media and social networking online. Before thinking about this more, I felt that social media is a pretty simple and straightforward topic, but then I watched this video, and I was quite wrong. Enjoy!
