DigiCMB

"And finally, it provides some interesting use cases for thinking about how to put institutional - library and other - services ' in the flow ' of research and learning behaviors." This is what triggered my attention. Want to read more? It's the last line in a post from Lorcan Dempsey. He is reviewing another blog post by Tony Hirst of the Open University [ OUseful Info: Scribd and the Role of Open Repositories ]. It illustrates how people are personally dealing with"The problem is, there are just soooooooooooo many places to share content now." Tags: user environment , workflow , repositories , open university , oclc

What if Users create their own search options? Web technologies allow actually anybody to create almost anything on the Web. Jenny Levine had this great example that stuck in my mind, about an RSS tool that a patron had created on his own website to see what library books should be returned and when. Mind you the Library just did not do it, and could not offer this to their users, although technology allowed it to create this option fairly easy. Personalised pages/tools like Netvibes, Google Personal, Windows Live (does anybody got a complete overview of the options?) offer much more then just RSS-feeds in small boxes. People can link,use and create their own content and design their own search boxes (with a little skill). And the number of people who have this skill is growing rapidly.. In my opinion Libraries should focus on the users more, and therefore I created some Netvibes search modules to see if communities like it. Have a look at what is out there now! Here's the list...

Check this out! Michigan Library Consortium's showcase stuff at Cybrary City2 posted by Namro Orman on Cybrary City II using a blogHUD : [ permalink ]

Second Life Library Wins National Award Kitty Pope, Executive Director of the Alliance Library System and the staff of volunteers from around the world who staff the library were just notified they were the winners of the American Library Association/Information Today Library of the Future Award. This award is granted to a library for innovation in library services. The award will be presented at the annual American Library Association in June. posted by Namro Orman on Info Island using a blogHUD : [ permalink ] Tags: second life , infoisland , second life library , ala , als , alliance Library System

Come and watch the Groninger Forum, a new new building for our city center in Groningen, The Netherlands. At this place they show a lot of slides, and even the old Martini Tower. posted by Namro Orman on Lohengrin using a blogHUD : [ permalink ]

It looked like a logic thing to do, to extend the search modules of Netvibes and why not the Dutch Google CSE " NL Biblioblogosphere" created and maintained by Dymphie. The list has been ripped off the blog of Wouter ;-). So, if you want to know what Dutch librarians are blogging about (and you understand Dutch or know how to translate stuff), search this resources, it's fun! De NL Biblioblogosphere Tags : blogs libraries bibliotheken BLOGGERS NL digicmb bibliobloggers Tags: blogs , libraries , Dutch , Netvibes , search , bibliotheken , NL

The CWIS - NL meeting on March 27 th on "Web 2.0 : are we ready for reality?" will be broadcasted live via SURFnet -TV. Several speakers will talk about the use of virtual environments in higher education, like Hyves and Second Life. The real life event is booked solid with over 200 people. The broadcast starts at 10.00 am : http://www.surfnet.nl/bijeenkomsten/livevideo/ After the meet the video presentations will be made available at: http://groepscommunicatie.surfnet.nl/info/cwis/bijeenkomsten/artikel_content.jsp?objectnumber=184198 Right now you will find the complete program (sorry, only in Dutch ;-) Please have a look at this program anyway, because it contains very interesting links, i.e. from Multi-user game environments in het onderwijs (education) Harald Warmelink ( Universiteit Utrecht): - Neverwinter Nights in the Classroom http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/Feature_Stories/22Neverwinter_Nights22_in_the_classroom.html?enewsemail - Open s...