It’s Wildlife Photographer vs. Wikimedia in who has the rights to a photograph taken by an ape.
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What I Learned From My Internship at Twitter | Information Space
This past April, between the demands of a packed schedule and midterm season, I secured my dream internship: a chance to work at Twitter in their San Francisco headquarters.
READ MORE: What I Learned From My Internship at Twitter | Information Space
A Guide to Little-Known Image Collections with Millions of Free, Hi-Res Images | OEDB.org
I’m often asked where to go to find high-quality and hi-resolution still images for reuse so I’ve put together this guide. There have been several new image collections that have opened up to the public just within the past year that not many people are aware of yet, but they offer access to thousands, or in some cases millions of outstanding photographs that can be downloaded for free. Here’s a quick guide to finding those collections.
READ MORE: A Guide to Little-Known Image Collections with Millions of Free, Hi-Res Images | OEDB.org.
British Library gives teachers tools to inspire | Books | The Observer
Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians from British Library Learning on Vimeo.
While Discovering Literature is an important cultural resource that can be enjoyed by all ages, it has been carefully tailored to appeal to GCSE and A-level students. The British Library’s research among teachers showed that original manuscripts, with their edits and revisions, dodgy grammar and messy handwriting, can be a powerful way of engaging pupils. Contextual material can also be a source of inspiration, and the site is packed with items such as letters, diaries, dictionaries, newspapers and illustrations that illuminate the historical, social and political contexts of classic works.
READ MORE: British Library gives teachers tools to inspire | Books | The Observer.
Free Live Webinars for Librarians [September 2014] | OEDB.org
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You may want to bookmark this OEDB webpage as it will be updated on a monthly basis, as indicated here.
How to attack a woman who works in video gaming | theguardian.com
A culture of hate and suspicion has descended on the games industry, and at the centre of the vortex is a familiar foe: women. Ask Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn.
READ MORE: How to attack a woman who works in video gaming | Technology | theguardian.com.
Scary. As librarians we have a responsibility to uphold the right to intellectual freedom. For situations such as this, there has to be checks and balances that hold criminal behaviour, such as harassment and death threats, accountable. Brings up all sorts of questions about social media and freedom of speech, anonymity, censorship, privacy and trolling.
Readers of new book The Endgame trilogy by James Frey can win $1.8m in gold coins | Mail Online
After looking for £500 gold bars on a Kent beach now comes the real treasure hunt: Readers of new book trilogy can win $1.8m in gold coins
- Trilogy of books give away $1.8m: $500,000 in gold coins in the first book, $1m in the second and $1.5m for the third
- Author James Frey was inspired by Kit Williamss 1979 book Masquerade
- Publishing rights have been sold to 27 countries and there will be 3 films
READ MORE: Readers of new book The Endgame trilogy by James Frey can win $1.8m in gold coins | Mail Online.
Library of Congress cooks CDs in quest to save them | CNET
CDs may not be the first thing to come to mind when you think of the Library of Congress, but it houses more than 500,000. The extensive collection includes everything from music to maps and labs where researchers are destroying CDs to learn how to preserve them, CBS News Jim Axelrod reports.
In 1982, Billy Joels album “52nd Street” was the first commercial compact disc to be released. Since then, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold worldwide. Once the latest music technology, the CD is now a collectors item, replaced by digital downloads. But those who built up music libraries in the 80s and 90s may wonder how long will those discs work? Fenella France, chief of preservation research and testing at the Library of Congress, is hoping to figure that out.
READ MORE: Library of Congress cooks CDs in quest to save them | CNET
Kobo’s Aura H20 Makes The High-Res E-Reader Waterproof – Your Move, Amazon | TechCrunch
Kobo has a new e-reader out that actually could shake up the market, since it offers waterproofing as a standard factory feature on a $179.99 e-reader, with a high-res, 265 DPI 6.8-inch e-ink display. The Kobo Aura H20 basically takes the already-impressive Aura HD, makes the design thinner and lighter, and adds IP67 environmental resistance, which is a tough package to beat.
via Kobo’s Aura H20 Makes The High-Res E-Reader Waterproof – Your Move, Amazon | TechCrunch.
Magic bookcase makes itself in neat stop-motion video | SPLOID
SPLOID is my new favourite blog “a new blog about awesome stuff”. Awesome is right. SPLOID recently posted about this stop-motion video of a bookcase being made (originally posted to YouTube March 2014). Out of this world cool and hypnotizing. Watch the whole thing without trying to plug your ears!
Magic bookcase makes itself in neat stop-motion video | SPLOID
Related: The Magic Behind Stop-Motion Animation Revealed [VIDEO] | Mashable
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