This evening will be our last class. We have taken a look at several different types of technology that have the potential of improving the services that we offer to people. Here is a citation of an article that can get us thinking about the future.
Becker, Charles H.(2009) ‘Student Values and Research: Are Millennials Really [...]
Today in class we will be talking about social bookmarking and networking. Before talking about these items we will have a guest speaker Chanitra Bishop who will be talking about how technology is being used in the Information Commons.
We will take a few minutes to talk some more about the Mashup assignment. In [...]
Mashup is a tearm that is used in the music industry when tow songs get mixed together.
During class we will briefly take a look at some mashups and discuss their different components. Each person will randomly select one of the following mashups to explore:
Placeopedia – http://www.placeopedia.com/
Biowizard – http://www.biowizard.com
GovTrack http://www.govtrack.us
Chicago crime data – [...]
Laura D.
University of Oregon
Matthew C.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Fallon
University Elementry School
Mathew F.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburg
Franklin
Maurer School of Law
Willie
RPS
Laura M.
Waidner-Spahr
Mary
Fairfield County Public
Kelly
Kent State
Nicholae
English and American Collection IUB
Here is the XHTML structure that you can just copy and paste into a text editor. This evening we will be adding a chat widget to a web page and using the widget to ask each other reference questions. The Mashup assignment that we will be doing next week will need to include this chat [...]
The following reading has been updated in the Syllabus:
American Library Association (2006). Guidelines for Implementing and Maintaining Virtual Reference Services, December 14, 2006. Retrieved May 19, 2010, from http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/resources/guidelines/virtrefguidelines.cfm
<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
<rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”>
<channel>
<atom:link href=”http://patrickrunfit.com/s603/patrick.xml” rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” />
<title>Patrick Patterson</title>
<link>http://www.patrickrunfit.com</link>
<description>My personal website</description>
<item>
<title>Resume</title>
<link>http://patrickrunfit.com/resume.html</link>
<description>Patricks Resume</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Blogs
Show Examples of blogs – is it a blog or a web site
Mashable
Kinsey Confidential
UX MAGAZINE
LITA Blog – Library and Information Technology Association
Shade Foundation of America
How to create a blog.
Show example using tumblr
Your turn to create a blog using one of the following:
Blogger – Patricks Blogger blog – http://test-patrick.blogspot.com/
Live Journal
My Opera – Patricks Opera blog – [...]
Here is just a short list of blog software that is hosted and available for free:
Live Journal
Blogger
Word Press – has both a free hosted service and a version that can be downloaded and installed on a web server
Opera
Tumblr
Typepad – a paid hosted subscription that allows for a 14 day trial
There [...]