Very Cool Word Clouds
I’m a huge fans of tag clouds (ironically, not such a big fan of tags). I just found a great tool that allows you make very cool word clouds from blocks of texts, blogs and web pages:
From my Blog:
Dave Screencast How To
Here is a screencast on how I do “talking head” screencasts on my Mac. I am just amazed how increasingly easy it is for a person and a computer to make pretty polished productions these days.
by the way,someone asked me if I came up with the term (hence my comment in the opening of the presentation), and the answer is definitely no. See Wikipedia.
Great Video on Information Literacy
A great video on how undergraduates seek information in doing their work. It is from a study out of the iSchool at the University of Washington with Allison Head, Mike Eisenberg and David Nasatir (http://projectinfolit.org/). Pay particular attention to the role of Wikipedia, the notion of pre-search, and the comment about “I’ll go to some person for an answer … that is if they closer than my computer is”.
ALA Reference Extract Screencast
Here is a screencast of the Reference Extract from ALA. It was part of a panel that included Paul Ulrich of the Berlin Central and Regional Library. You can see a screencast of the entire panel here: http://blip.tv/file/1701683.
Reference Extract: Obligations and Opportunities
“Obligations and Opportunities” ALA Annual Conference, Denver, CO
Abstract: A discussion of the “what” of Reference Extract and the “why.”
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/RefEx-ALA.pdf
Audio: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/pod/2009/RefEx-ALA.mp3
Screencast:
Panel: Participatory Librarianship
“Panel: Participatory Librarianship” ALISE Conference, Denver, CO.
Abstract: Presentations on the theory and reality of participatory concepts.
Todd Marshall(Syracuse) on the Theoretical underpinnings of participatory networks
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/Marshall.pdf David Pimentel(Syracuse) and his examination of organizing principles in participatory environments
https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/Pim.pdf R. David Lankes(Syracuse) on the implications for MLS education and the Reference Extract project
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/RefEx-ALISE.pdf
Useless
“Useless” Denver, CO.
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2008/Useless.pdf
Participatory Digital Libraries
Under the rubric “there is nothing new under the sun,” see the excellent article on Participatory Digital Libraries from 1999 by Diane H. Sonnenwald, Gary Marchionini, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Bert J. Dempsey, Charles L. Viles, Helen R. Tibbo, and John B. Smith of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
http://sils.unc.edu/research/publications/reports/TR-2001-03.pdf
Bullet Point: “Participatory Librarianship and Digital libraries”
OK, a change of pace from the verbose rhetoric. Some of you may know I teach digital libraries at Syracuse. I put this together to explain the link between participatory librarianship and digital libraries. A lot of this is discussed in greater depth in an upcoming digital reference monograph from Morgan-Claypool.