The test made a hyperlink of the title - which took one to the wav file. Looking around the screen, I noticed a "download" link. I'll have to play with that and see how it works!
One of the first podcasts I downloaded was from OPAL, Online Programming for All Libraries. I listened to the Library Thing presentation.
I have a personal Library Thing. I've created a Library Thing Local for the NMTC library. I noticed that Georgia Highlands College has a Library Thing page.
I haven't yet played with Library Thing for the NMTC Library. Looking through the GHC Library Thing, I'm getting ideas on how this could be useful. Yet, my catalog (Surpass) is easy to edit. I think I could "tag" materials. Is that heresy in the cataloging world?
Something to ponder- tagging versus subject headings. Can formal cataloging coexist with informal tagging? All this thinking brought about by a Mothers Day gift!
Friday, May 09, 2008
Can you hear me now?
This is a test...at the beginning of April I learned how to record and save audio to a "server" on campus.
Mothers Day came early with a Fed Ex delivery of an I-pod Nano. I'm inspired to create podcasts. Blogger.com offers a way to create podcasts in the blog. I'm going to try it with The Song of the Chattahoochee that I recorded in early April.
So we'll see if you can hear me now?
Mothers Day came early with a Fed Ex delivery of an I-pod Nano. I'm inspired to create podcasts. Blogger.com offers a way to create podcasts in the blog. I'm going to try it with The Song of the Chattahoochee that I recorded in early April.
So we'll see if you can hear me now?
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Weeding helps growth
From Merriam-Websters in GALILEO:
Main Entry: weed
intransitive senses : to remove weeds or something harmful
transitive senses
1 a : to clear of weedsb (1) : to free from something hurtful or offensive (2) : to remove the less desirable portions of
2 : to get rid of (something harmful or superfluous) -- often used with out
It's Spring-time and we're going through the collection looking for outdated and/or no longer appropriate materials for this collection. You know we have a "compact" physical space.
Everything on the shelves needs to support the current programs offered at North Metro Technical College.
While "weeding", we look at "holes" in the collection and decide what to purchase to fill those holes. When the fiscal year begins, we'll be ready to spend our budget wisely and the collection will grow in a healthy fashion.
To use GALILEO at home, get the current password from your Georgia librarian.
Main Entry: weed
intransitive senses : to remove weeds or something harmful
transitive senses
1 a : to clear of weeds
2 : to get rid of (something harmful or superfluous) -- often used with out
It's Spring-time and we're going through the collection looking for outdated and/or no longer appropriate materials for this collection. You know we have a "compact" physical space.
Everything on the shelves needs to support the current programs offered at North Metro Technical College.
While "weeding", we look at "holes" in the collection and decide what to purchase to fill those holes. When the fiscal year begins, we'll be ready to spend our budget wisely and the collection will grow in a healthy fashion.
To use GALILEO at home, get the current password from your Georgia librarian.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Page 6 and page 8
Carol Stanley and Jerry Stovall have written a compelling blog (only available in print through the Georgia Library Quarterly, vol. 45, number 1, Spring 2008, pgs 5-8) detailing the frustrations felt by librarians who are supposed to be helping patrons find information.
The librarians of the Technical College System of Georgia are dealing with the dichotomy of working in an academic library with a filter on internet access.
How can this be? How many universities in the Ivy League (or even the Georgia Board of Regents league) would stand for limiting access to information with a filter on the internet?
The students in the technical college system are being denied access to information under an arbitrary system implemented by the state of Georgia to prevent government employees from using the internet to "play" rather than work.
The managers of government employees can't manage therefore college students are denied access to information....and how is this helpful in a free academic environment?
It's what technical college librarians deal with as the powers that be push the technical colleges with one hand to be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools yet with the other hand deny access to academically useful resources available through the web with the filter Websense.
Read all about it in the Georgia Library Quarterly.
Oh, Carol and Jerry mention the View from the Library in their article on pages 6 and 8 of the GLQ. They can read this now...... Thanks for the mention!
The librarians of the Technical College System of Georgia are dealing with the dichotomy of working in an academic library with a filter on internet access.
How can this be? How many universities in the Ivy League (or even the Georgia Board of Regents league) would stand for limiting access to information with a filter on the internet?
The students in the technical college system are being denied access to information under an arbitrary system implemented by the state of Georgia to prevent government employees from using the internet to "play" rather than work.
The managers of government employees can't manage therefore college students are denied access to information....and how is this helpful in a free academic environment?
It's what technical college librarians deal with as the powers that be push the technical colleges with one hand to be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools yet with the other hand deny access to academically useful resources available through the web with the filter Websense.
Read all about it in the Georgia Library Quarterly.
Oh, Carol and Jerry mention the View from the Library in their article on pages 6 and 8 of the GLQ. They can read this now...... Thanks for the mention!
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Civil Rights Digital Library
The Atlanta Journal Consitution noted on April 27 "the Civil Rights time machine" .
In GALILEO the "more >>" describes "The Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL) as a vehicle that promotes an enhanced understanding of the Civil Rights Movement through its three principal components:
a digital video archive delivering 30 hours of historical news film allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the Civil Rights Movement a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Civil Rights Movement by aggregating metadata from 75 libraries and allied organizations from across the nation instructional materials to facilitate the use of the video content in the learning process
The CRDL links to primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale. The CRDL features a collection of more than 30 hours of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. These moving images—about 450 clips--cover a broad range of key civil rights events, including the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (1957); the Atlanta Temple bombing (1958); Atlanta sit-ins (1960); Freedom Rides (1961); desegregation of the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech (1961); the Albany Movement (1961-1962); desegregation of Ole Miss (1962) and University of Alabama (1963); and Americus Movement (1963, 1965); Birmingham demonstrations (1963); among many other topics.
CRDL is a partnership among librarians, technologists, archivists, educators, scholars, academic publishers, and public broadcasters. The initiative receives support through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services."
THE CRDL is accessible through GALILEO and on its own CRDL site. Learn from the past to prevent errors in judgement in the future!
In GALILEO the "more >>" describes "The Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL) as a vehicle that promotes an enhanced understanding of the Civil Rights Movement through its three principal components:
a digital video archive delivering 30 hours of historical news film allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the Civil Rights Movement a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Civil Rights Movement by aggregating metadata from 75 libraries and allied organizations from across the nation instructional materials to facilitate the use of the video content in the learning process
The CRDL links to primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale. The CRDL features a collection of more than 30 hours of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. These moving images—about 450 clips--cover a broad range of key civil rights events, including the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (1957); the Atlanta Temple bombing (1958); Atlanta sit-ins (1960); Freedom Rides (1961); desegregation of the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech (1961); the Albany Movement (1961-1962); desegregation of Ole Miss (1962) and University of Alabama (1963); and Americus Movement (1963, 1965); Birmingham demonstrations (1963); among many other topics.
CRDL is a partnership among librarians, technologists, archivists, educators, scholars, academic publishers, and public broadcasters. The initiative receives support through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services."
THE CRDL is accessible through GALILEO and on its own CRDL site. Learn from the past to prevent errors in judgement in the future!
Pictures on the desk
I read about using digital photo frames for PR. I bought a digital photo frame and an inexpensive digital camera. It's fun to take the pictures, save them to an SD card and load the frame. Visitors stop and get entranced with the show.
New books, old books, patrons reading, location shots....
Changing the "show" each week is very easy to do. I placed the frame on the front desk. It greets patrons as they enter!
New books, old books, patrons reading, location shots....
Changing the "show" each week is very easy to do. I placed the frame on the front desk. It greets patrons as they enter!
Monday, May 05, 2008
Finished the Terrible Two's
The View turns three today!
Three years of commenting on the resources available through the North Metro Technical College library!
It's Cinco de Mayo and the view from the library is most entertaining. The celebration is being set up in the Lobby right outside the glass doors for a grand time to be had by all!
Pinata, games, food, and music. Even a talent show put on by the students. What fun! I have a front row seat.
Three years of commenting on the resources available through the North Metro Technical College library!
It's Cinco de Mayo and the view from the library is most entertaining. The celebration is being set up in the Lobby right outside the glass doors for a grand time to be had by all!
Pinata, games, food, and music. Even a talent show put on by the students. What fun! I have a front row seat.
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