ASIS&T Announces Management Partnership with DCMI – David Weinberger The reinvention of libraries | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Projectfact-based SlideShare – David Weinberger Accountability, libraries’ value at odds | NKY.com | cincinnati.comIdentifying the value of libraries – David Weinberger Search for 1st Web Page Takes Detour Into NCJones said Berners-Lee shared the… Read more »
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Link roundup June 5, 2013
Fokus – Emphasized text-highlighting using JavaScriptFokus uses JavaScript to emphasize anything you select by covering the rest of the page with semi-transparent black. – Matt Phillips Designing Libraries That Encourage Teens to Loiter – Amanda Erickson – The Atlantic Cities – David Weinberger Libraries expanding availability of free digital downloads | StarNewsOnline.com – David Weinberger… Read more »
Awesome Boxes at Somerville Public Library
Our Awesome Boxes were itching to get their hands on even more books, music and movies so they jumped the fence and escaped Harvard Yard to their first public library home. A box can now be found at each of the three branches of the Somerville Public Library. Take a look at the… Read more »
We read
A few books to help us get it done. Jeff is reading The architecture of knowledge for his Library Test Kitchen class. Annie is reading Head first iPhone and iPad development fo Where the Wild Books Are. Matt found this Python cheat sheet via Python Weekly to help with shelf.io. Paul has… Read more »
The Setup – Annie Cain
Who are you, and what do you do? I’m Annie Cain. I was once a librarian and maybe still am. Either way, I currently build web apps. For libraries. I also come up with ideas, help shape ideas and help execute & build non-web ideas. What hardware do you use? My work machine is a… Read more »
Quality Rules
Here is a letter from our very own Paul Deschner, to the Harvard Library community (and – now – beyond). It was so well received here that we thought it worth sharing more broadly. Hi all, During this time of general re-evaluation of library services, I thought it might be helpful to share a few… Read more »
Awesome Box Pilot
The Harvard community now has the chance to declare something Awesome. Just by dropping it in a box. Amazing, useful and entertaining library materials can now be returned to the Awesome Boxes in Widener and Lamont. Check out what’s been Awesomed already at http://hvrd.me/awesomebox. This pilot phase is intended to help figure out how to… Read more »
Why is Scribblenauts so cool?
Scribblenauts is a Nintendo game. The object is to solve a puzzle. Say there’s a kitten stuck in a tree. If you type in ‘ladder’, the puzzle is solved. If you type in ‘jetpack’ the puzzle is solved. So it’s definitely different than the rest. It’s innovative. I’m still not sure exactly what makes it… Read more »