Edinburgh Literary Map
Librarians in Edinburgh have been busy producing an interactive literary map of their city. The map details books that are set or inspired by Edinburgh and now includes over 100 books. There are a number of reasons for such a project according to City Librarian Graham Mainds, “People might find out that there’s a book [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fame! I’m gonna live forever
Last night Vicki went to a Library 20×20. That is a group of presentations where the speakers talk to 20 slides – 20 secs per slide. Of all the presentations the one from Ellen Forsyths of the SLNSW stood out – mainly because she featured the Readers in the Mist blog…. (have a look at slide 10). [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What kind of a reader are you?
Wattpad, a booky social networking thingy (unfortunately at first glance it looks very US oriented) has got this reader quiz. I think I came out as ‘The Realist’ but it was kind of hard to follow all those lines on the ‘pooter so I think I might have to print it out. If you double [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )YourNextRead
Here’s a nifty site: YourNextRead At YourNextRead you can enter the name of a book or author or genre you enjoy reading and you will be given a choice of books to try next. Here’s the result of my search using Wolf Hall (just won the first Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction): It’s a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )FlickrPoet
FlickrPoet is part of Stories In Flight, an ongoing exploration of storytelling in the age of the Internet. When you enter a paragraph of text, a poem, some lyrics or just random words FlickrPoet will find matching photos on Flickr based on a search of tags, titles and descriptions of the photos. Here is “It was a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Library 2.0 : Is it worth it?
Here’s a paper by Dr Michael Stephens, Richard Sayers and Warren Cheetham on the Impact and Beneficts of Learning 2.0 Programs in Australian Libraries (this is a Pdf document that you download from a blog). Heidi
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hierarchy of distractions
I’ve been at work now for over an hour and all I have to show for it is a few changed and new sentences in the Library Procedure Manual. I’ve been checking my RSS feeds and following up leads, thinking about blog posts I’ve been putting off, and so on and so on. So coming [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has compiled a list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 . Jane has a blog called Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day which is well worth subscribing to. There are two related lists that might be of interest : Top 100 Tools 2009 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )« Previous Entries
