Four times a week I trudge off to the Y. While there I fill up my water bottle and carefully add 4 drops of a Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). Osteoporosis doesn’t just run in my family – it gallops. When all the media was covering Vitamin D I was listening but I’m still not sure about […]
Last month marked the 40th anniversary of the e-book. According to most accounts, July 4, 1971 is the date Project Gutenberg founder, Michael Hart, first digitized the US Declaration of Independence. I was at a conference a few months back when one of the presenters briefly mentioned a few sites from which we could download […]
Some of you have asked that we show more ways libraries are using new technologies. On June 20 2011 The Atlantic published What Big Media Can Learn From the New York Public Library. Alexis Madrigal explored NYPL's innovative online projects and concluded “I'm convinced the NYPL is succeeding online because of desire. …. Second, […]
Fiacre O'Duinn will be speaking on Augmented Reality at The IST Spring Conference on June 1, 2011 I was fascinated that Fiacre lists his credentials as “Librarian — Maker — Technogeek". Librarian I understand… Technogeek is pretty standard… but Maker…what the hey? Well, as with many other trends over the years, I had missed the […]