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Data: Students + Facebook + Library Outreach
I posted recently about our library web survey but I thought it’d be interesting to talk a little about one particular question: If you could contact a librarian via Facebook or MySpace for help with...
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One Million Digitized Books
On Friday we (University of Michigan Library) celebrated a major milestone in our digitization project. Together with Google, we’ve just hit 1 Million Digitized Books! Read what our University...
View ArticleA Conversation with Steven Levy podcast
On Monday, February 4, technology writer Steven Levy & Paul Courant, Dean of the University of Michigan Library spoke about the future of the book. The podcast is now available:...
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What people are doing online
I just found this fantastic information graphic from Business Week that demonstrates what people are doing online and is broken down by age range. I particularly like the categories used: Creators,...
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New Library Tagging Tool
The University of Michigan Library just released our very own home-grown tagging tools. Now users can tag library web pages, catalog records, image collections, and some of the Scholarly Publishing...
View Articledel.icio.us noticed that librarians like del.icio.us
Over at the del.icio.us blog, there’s a post about how they’ve noticed that librarians & educators are using delicious in interesting ways. Over the past year or two, I’ve been delighted to notice...
View ArticlePowerhouse Museum joins the Commons on Flickr
The Powerhouse Museum in Australia has just joined the Library of Congress to be the second member of the Commons on Flickr. And BTW – Seb Chan’s Powerhouse blog Fresh + New(er) is one of my favorites...
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Library OPACs & Mobile-Friendly Features
Besides actual mobile versions of websites, there are also ways to improve interaction through mobile-friendly features. One way is to allow users to text or email a book’s information from the library...
View Article2009 Horizon Report – Mobile Technology
The latest Horizon Report has just been released. The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research...
View ArticleiDesign student competition 2011
This is the second year of the University of Michigan Library’s iDesign competition. This year’s theme is virtual browsing and the challenge is to design an innovative tool which will enhance...
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