…its patrons may not browse the stacks. Instead, the chief librarian, a civilian who asks to be identified as “Milton” for security reasons, or an aide fills plastic bins with about 50 books and takes them to each cellblock once a week.
Prison Library at Guantánamo – NYTimes.com
Also this tumblr blog shows reporter’s pics of books at Guantánamo.
Facebook Finally Gets Hashtag Support | Mashable
According to the Facebook announcement, users will be able to:
A Guardian Guide to Your Metadata | Technology | guardian.co.uk
The guide explores some of the metadata collected through activities you do every day with services including email, phone, camera, Facebook, Twitter, Google Search and web browsers.
A core skill for librarians is learning about metadata. Our reference and research abilities are inherently dependent upon the metadata linked to the materials we are searching for and retrieving. Now we can use these skills to assist our users and patrons in learning about their own personal metadata if they want to educate themselves or have privacy concerns.
Data to Live By: Understanding the Social Media + Technology Landscape | Pew Research Center
Most librarians don’t think of themselves as entrepreneurs, but there is a growing interest in entrepreneurial librarianship, the abstract idea connecting social entrepreneurship with the services librarians provide every day.
See the full article: What is Entrepreneurial Librarianship? | Information Space.
Braille has come a long way since its invention in the 19th century, but it’s still tough to apply it to the highly-visual storytelling we see in comics. This realization led Phillipp Meyer, a Copenhagen-based interaction designer, to create the first comic for the blind.
Simple, recognizable shapes paired with a contextual title and a simple narrative flow was enough for readers to glean a basic understanding of a story. From there, the reader’s imagination is in charge.
For the full story see: A Beautifully Simple Comic Book for the Blind | Wired Design | Wired.com.
Here are some lists for the best websites of 2013.
50 Best Websites 2013 | TIME Tech. Includes categories News & Information, Audio & Video, Web Tools, Social, Education, Home & Family, Special Interest, Shopping, Games and Quirky.
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2013 15th Annual List RUSA Emerging Technologies in Reference Section (MARS). 26 websites are listed. Among them educational websites Codeacademy, Coursera, and VideoLectures.NET.
The eBiz website has posts listing all kinds of top websites of 2013 including Top 10 Best HTML5 Websites of 2013 and Top 15 Most Popular Media Websites | June 2013.
For website design best sites of the month check out AWWWARDS.
If smartphone users have problems with your site, here’s some incentive to fix them: Google said Tuesday it plans to punish problematic sites with lower placement in search results.
via Make Web sites mobile-friendly or face Google search wrath | Internet & Media – CNET News.
This Google Trends Visualization Will Mesmerize You | Mashable
See Google trends visualizations tool here. You can choose to view the number of trends by changing the matrix size clicking the icon on the top-left of the screen. Definitely mesmerizing!
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