One of my favorite things about the Internet is the wealth of cultural information online, to which I would never have access. The website of the Museum of Modern Art, for instance. Or the archives of the National Film Board of Canada.
More good news. The Library of Congress will begin sharing content from its video and audio collections on YouTube and Apple’s iTunes as part of a continuing effort to make its collection available to broad segments of the population.
Among the content expected to be shared include 100-year-old films from the Thomas Edison studio, book talks with contemporary authors, early industrial films from Westinghouse factories, first-person audio accounts of life in slavery, and inside looks into the Library's holdings, including the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and the contents of Lincoln's pockets on the night of his assassination.
The new channels will launch within the next few weeks.
[via iLibrarian]
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October 22, 2008
Cool Technology Tools from Kalamazoo
I am in Kalamazoo, for the Michigan Library Association Annual Conference, always a worthwhile event.
This afternoon, I attended an excellent workshop – Tech Tools for Reference – presented by Holly Hibner, from the Salem-South Lyon District Library, and Christine Tobias, from Michigan State University Libraries.
Hibner’s presentation, directed toward public libraries, was especially interesting to me. She presented twelve Web 2.0 – free – technologies that all librarians should incorporate into our tool chest.
Take a look at these:
Delicious.com – a social bookmarking site and one of The Tech Desk’s favorites.
Twitter.com – a microblog, and another of our favorites.
LinkBunch.com – put multiple links into one short link can be sent easily via text message, IM or email.
Drop.io – drop files that are too big to email onto this site and share them via a variety of outputs.
Meebo.com – chat across platforms, with no software download required.
Scribd.com – publish and share doc, xls, pdf, txt, and Open Office files with the world.
Slideshare.net – publish and share your presentations with the world. To view this workshop’s presentation using slideshare, go to www.slideshare.net/hhibner.
Camstudio.org – create AVI files by recording screen and audio activity on your computer.
Googlelittrips.com – an experiment in teaching literature, by using Google Earth to help students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.
Cueprompter.com – turn your computer into a teleprompter.
Readthewords.com – create an audio file out of text.
Zamzar.com – convert files without needing special software.
The coolest of these? It has to be googlelittrips.com. Follow the journey of John Steinbeck’s Joad family from The Grapes of Wrath.
What do you think?
This afternoon, I attended an excellent workshop – Tech Tools for Reference – presented by Holly Hibner, from the Salem-South Lyon District Library, and Christine Tobias, from Michigan State University Libraries.
Hibner’s presentation, directed toward public libraries, was especially interesting to me. She presented twelve Web 2.0 – free – technologies that all librarians should incorporate into our tool chest.
Take a look at these:
Delicious.com – a social bookmarking site and one of The Tech Desk’s favorites.
Twitter.com – a microblog, and another of our favorites.
LinkBunch.com – put multiple links into one short link can be sent easily via text message, IM or email.
Drop.io – drop files that are too big to email onto this site and share them via a variety of outputs.
Meebo.com – chat across platforms, with no software download required.
Scribd.com – publish and share doc, xls, pdf, txt, and Open Office files with the world.
Slideshare.net – publish and share your presentations with the world. To view this workshop’s presentation using slideshare, go to www.slideshare.net/hhibner.
Camstudio.org – create AVI files by recording screen and audio activity on your computer.
Googlelittrips.com – an experiment in teaching literature, by using Google Earth to help students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.
Cueprompter.com – turn your computer into a teleprompter.
Readthewords.com – create an audio file out of text.
Zamzar.com – convert files without needing special software.
The coolest of these? It has to be googlelittrips.com. Follow the journey of John Steinbeck’s Joad family from The Grapes of Wrath.
What do you think?
October 18, 2008
Learn to Say It with howjsay.com
Next time you need help pronouncing a word, why not try www.howjsay.com?
I learned about this site a while ago, but was recently reminded of it by LibrarianInBlack. It is quite useful and quite simple.
Just type a word into the search box. Howjsay.com returns an mp3 file with the correct pronunciation of the word. Hover over the word to repeat the audio, as often as you like. The site also displays a listing of words near alphabetically to your search term.
A must site. Use it with your favorite on-line dictionary.
I learned about this site a while ago, but was recently reminded of it by LibrarianInBlack. It is quite useful and quite simple.
Just type a word into the search box. Howjsay.com returns an mp3 file with the correct pronunciation of the word. Hover over the word to repeat the audio, as often as you like. The site also displays a listing of words near alphabetically to your search term.
A must site. Use it with your favorite on-line dictionary.
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