More Edible Books- April 29, 2008 Images from possibly my favorite event in a library, the Edible Book Festival, are up online for the 2008 festival!http://www.ibiblio.org/pomerantz/blog/?p=587 Libraries of the Future- April 28, 2008 No, not the Licklider vision, but a new version from JISC. Through Libraries of the Future, JISC is hoping to explore these and many other questions, to open up - with partner organisations and librarians themselves - a debate about the future of the academic and research library. The theme will encompass a variety of activities1 ...http://www.ibiblio.org/pomerantz/blog/?p=586 Better course evaluation questions- April 25, 2008 Here at Carolina, as I&8217;m sure at every college &038; university, we have our standard end-of-semester course evaluation forms. There are the closed-ended questions that are students answer on a scantron bubble sheet, and open-ended questions answer freehand. Then, as if that wasn&8217;t enough, we have a standard set of 3 additional open-ended questions that ...http://www.ibiblio.org/pomerantz/blog/?p=585 EB Widgets- April 23, 2008 &8216;Encyclopaedia Britannica&8217; Is Now Free to Bloggers, from the Chronicle Wired Campus The Great EB has gone Web 2.0: first, they have a new blog. And second, they&8217;ve developed a widget that enables access to a topically-defined set of resources from the EB. Unfortunately the widgets are by registration only, but it&8217;s a start. I&8217;ve registered for ...http://www.ibiblio.org/pomerantz/blog/?p=584 More fun with calendars and task lists- April 22, 2008 I&8217;m still futzing with Remember the Milk. I got to wondering today if there&8217;s a way to sync RTM to Lightning, for which I installed the Thunderbird add-on when I was investigating new calendar apps, but never ended up using. Using my superhuman search skills, I was easily able to discover that yes, there is ...http://www.ibiblio.org/pomerantz/blog/?p=581 Kicking the Microsoft habit, Part I: RTM- April 17, 2008 I&8217;ve been trying to wean myself from all Microsoft products lately, by which I mean everything: the entire Office suite, and Outlook. The Windows OS too, though that will take longer to achieve: I&8217;ve already decided that my next laptop will be a Mac. I have technology envy for the Air, though Yvonne has nixed ...http://www.ibiblio.org/pomerantz/blog/?p=580 Interview with Duke Magazine- April 16, 2008 I just did an interview with Duke Magazine on the future of libraries, particularly how technology is changing librarianship. I have to give the writer credit, he said that he&8217;d been reading the library literature for background. I was amused, but unsurprised, when he said that he was surprised at how much has been written ...http://www.ibiblio.org/pomerantz/blog/?p=579 |