The links in this week’s edition of Weekly Bytes were brought to you by these sources: Library Stuff, LISNews, ResourceShelf, and The Shifted Librarian.
No worries about a monopoly – U.S. and European regulators approve Microsoft/Yahoo …
Weekly Bytes for 2/16
This week’s news bytes were culled from LISNews and ResourceShelf.
Google is buying Aardvark — did anyone predict this after reading the last edition of Weekly Bytes?
Know your e-reading rights — a new white paper from the Electronic …
Speed Networking Night – March 30
The GSLIS Alumni Board and the Student Chapter of ASIS&T is co-sponsoring an educational speed-networking event! This is your chance to network with GSLIS alumni in various areas of librarianship and with representatives from librarian organizations to learn about career …
Weekly Bytes for 2/9
This week’s news bytes were hand-picked from the updates at ResourceShelf:
The launch of Aardvark — a large-scale social search engine
The launch of Google Buzz — Google’s alternative to Facebook and Twitter?
Weekly(ish) Bytes
- U.S. Oil industry hit by cyberattacks
- Insanely great??Tech journalists at Ars Technica react to the iPad
- For the love of culture?Lawrence Lessig on Google, copyright, and our future
- So it?s called the iPad: Five thoughts on how it
Weekly Bytes 1/22
Here is the third installment of our Weekly Bytes series for the GSLIS community. Please enjoy this recent library tech news:
- Intel InfoScape Double HD Touchscreen Internet Experience – Could this be the future of reference or virtual collections?.
- Next-Gen
Weekly Bytes for 12/6
Here is the second installment of our Weekly Bytes series for the GSLIS community. Please enjoy the following resources, many of which have a mobile technology theme:
- Free Webinar on Mobile Learning – This 1 hour virtual session covers the
Dynamic Maps in Online Catalog
About two years ago Witchita State University implemented dynamic animated maps in their online catalog. I’ve seen libraries with links to maps in their catalogs before (like BC), but never so intricate and fun. If you visit their catalog here…
Weekly Bytes
A curated list of links of interest to the ASIST community:
…TED Thursday: Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen
Visualization seems to be the theme of the week, so let’s finish it off with a 20-minute TED talk from one of the most influential data visualization specialists out there: