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The Best of Internet Librarian 2013 | Ellyssa Kroski | OEDB.org
Every year there are two amazing conferences focusing on information technology and libraries hosted by Information Today – Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian. They feature the field’s top innovators sharing their insights, recent project experiences, and practical tips. If you couldn’t make this year’s event, here are 10 stellar presentations that will catch you up:
Presentation topics:
- Managing Devices & Gadgets
- Open Source Solutions & Apps
- Project Management
- Tech Tools for Engaging Communities
- Usability Testing: On Board & On a Shoestring
- Using Web Analytics for Site Improvement
- Super Searcher Secrets
- The New State of Search: Google, Discovery, & Apps
- Clarifying Copyright for the Classroom Teacher
- Embedded Librarianship With Google Docs
Access them here: The Best of Internet Librarian 2013 | Ellyssa Kroski | OEDB.org.
30 Things You No Longer Need Because of Smartphones | BuzzFeedVideo
Lithium-Ion Batteries, Straight from a 3-D Printer | MIT Technology Review
By making the basic building blocks of batteries out of ink, Harvard materials scientist Jennifer Lewis is laying the groundwork for lithium-ion batteries and other high-performing electronics that can be produced with 3-D printers. Although the technology is still at an early stage, the ability to print batteries and other electronics could make it possible to manufacture new kinds of devices.
Read: Lithium-Ion Batteries, Straight from a 3-D Printer | MIT Technology Review.
Tech Trends 2013: Elements of post digital | Deloitte United States
The Book as App: Multi-Touch Ebooks and Their Future in Libraries | Nicole Hennig
Canada’s parks and historic sites now on Google Street View | CBC News
The Google Maps team visited Banff National Park and about 70 other Parks Canada sites this past spring and summer, collecting imagery using its Street View cars and on foot using its Trekker backpack technology. (Google/Parks Canada)
Hikes through spectacular national parks such as Banff and tours of historic sites such as the Viking settlement at L’anse au Meadows in Newfoundland are now available on Google Street View.
Google and Parks Canada announced today that more than 70 Parks Canada locations across the country can now be explored online.
“From planning a summer vacation to augmenting classroom lesson plans, the partnership between Parks Canada and Google will better connect Canadians to the amazing places and geography that defines this country,” wrote Parks Canada’s Michael White on the Google Canada blog.
Read: Canada’s parks and historic sites now on Google Street View | Technology & Science | CBC News.
This Sign Language Ring Translates Hand Movements Into Spoken Words | Fast Company
A winner of the coveted red dot awards for design concept in 2013, Sign Language Ring is a device that detects sign language motion and “translates” that to voice by emitting audio through a speaker.
Comprising a bracelet and set of detachable rings worn on select fingers, Sign Language Ring was inspired by Buddhist prayer beads, according to its six designers from Asia University. The wearable device can also translate voice to text, transcribing spoken language picked up by a microphone into text that’s displayed on the bracelet’s screen.
Google Reveals Its 9 Principles of Innovation | Fast Company
Ever wonder what makes the Google the holy grail of productivity and creativity? There’s no magic in the drinking water at the Mountain View, CA company. The tech giant draws from what Google’s chief social evangelist, Gopi Kallayil, calls the nine core principles of innovation.
Kallayil shared his insights at this week’s San Francisco Dreamforce summit. Here are the nine rules that any enterprise, large or small, can adopt to steal Google’s innovative culture.
The principles:
- Innovation Comes From Anywhere
- Focus On The User
- Aim To Be Ten Times Better
- Bet On Technical Insights
- Ship And Iterate
- Give Employees 20 Percent Time
- Default To Open Processes
- Fail Well
- Have A Mission That Matters
Read more: Google Reveals Its 9 Principles of Innovation | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.
News: Education & Technology, Librarianship
Education & Technology
- Education Startup Udacity Bets It Can Fill The Need For More Data Scientists With New Online Degree Program | TechCrunch
- Leap Motion releases Free Form, an app that lets human hands sculpt digital clay | Engadget
- And The Word Of The Year Is… “selfie” | FastCompany
- Google And Microsoft Put Differences Aside To Fight Child Porn | ReadWrite
- ‘The Wall Street Journal’ and Reuters Blocked in China | Mashable
- 65% of U.S. Social Media Users Get News on Just One Social Network | Mashable
- Russian internet titan Mail.ru stakes claim in US with email and chat apps, mobile games | Engadget
- Behold! The First Universal Game Controller for the iPhone | WIRED
- Raspberry Pi Vaults Past 2 Million Sold Mark | readwrite
- Google: We’re bombarded by gov’t requests on user data | CNET
Librarianship
Are Digital Libraries A ‘Winner-Takes-All’ Market? OverDrive Hopes So | Forbes
“Schools and libraries in all forms are transitioning their spends from providing physical items that are being stored on shelves and branches to digital items — the fastest portion of their growth,” said Steve Potash in a recent interview. Potash is President and CEO of OverDrive, the Cleveland-based provider of technology for managing and distributing digital content for lending libraries.
Gross: Fifty Shades of Grey goes viral – literally | theguardian
Library copies of the bestselling sadomasochistic romance were found to carry traces of herpes and cocaine.
- Internet Archive Fire Shows Vulnerability Of The World’s Online Memory | techdirt
- Architects Bjarke Ingels Group win competition to build a Museum of the Human Body near Montpellier | Gizmodo
- “E-Books in Libraries, 2013 Has Been a Year of Small Victories and Bigger Battles” | LJ InfoDocket
- Partial u-turn for Moray on library closures | The Bookseller
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