Thoughts on Technical Librarianship
Team BlackBerry Gets Creative with BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0
Reblogged from Inside BlackBerry:
There’s no denying it – you guys are creative. So, in honor of BlackBerry® PlayBook™ OS 2.0, we held a #PlayBook2 contest on Twitter® and asked for BlackBerry PlayBook tablet-sized items, BlackBerry PlayBook tablet poems and more from the ever-artistic Team BlackBerry. The best of the best submissions earned winners a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet prize package including a…
SLCA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and Web Site
I was at the Long Island Library Conference yesterday, and was made aware of the Suffolk County Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee and its website:
On the SCLA intellectual freedom web pages, you will find extensive information about user confidentiality, government information, censorship, copyright & licensing, academic freedom, and even a library policy exchange.
Building low-cost legal digital collections on the cheap
Reblogged from Doreva Belfiore:
Today, while surfing the web, I found this YouTube video of Eric Gilson and John Joergensen of Rutgers Camden Law Library presenting at the 2005 CALI (Computer Aided Law Instruction) conference. In it, Gilson & Joergensen discuss how to digitize congressional documents and build a digital library in a low-cost manner using open-source software. Unfortunately, you cannot really see the screen output from the projector, but the concepts are still relevant.
Doreva Belfiore gives an overview of digitization and creating digital collections using open source software.
