Library sharings

30/01/2008

Mobilizing web content
Andanza-Mobile menus in spanish but easy to understand.

More and more services on the web are offering services to create and transport regular web content on to your mobile/cellular phone. By using the Andanza services I have mobilized this blog and made it mobile "friendly", direct your mobile browser to the following url address: http://m.andanza.com/ubitlibrary_blogspot

25/01/2008

Wiki

Create your own Wiki very easy and quick by using the software from wetpaint.com I have made a few suggestions here.

24/01/2008

Some ideas about the future of our libraries. What will the library look like in 2018?

23/01/2008

NTNU Multimediesenteret and their Mediasite presentation catalog

Multimediesenteret at NTNU is offering the possibility to film lectures and make them available through their mediasite presentation catalog or you could simply put it inside the LMS It's Learning. For African studies (Afrikastudier) the following lectures/presentations are available.

22/01/2008

National Geographic

In the article "Travels with iPod" by Andrew Nelson you could read about how Ubiquitous MP3 players have altered the way we travel. Through 9 selected links he guides us through some of the ways we could use our iPod to enrich our travel experiences.

09/01/2008

Some selected library resources

Librivox
Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.

LivRe!
LivRe! is the portal developed by CNEN - Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear (Brazilian National Nuclear Energy Commission),through its CIN
- Centro de Informações Nucleares (Nuclear Information Center),aiming to ease the identification and the access to free journals available on the Internet.

NYPC DigitalGallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated
manuscripts, historical
maps, vintage
posters, rare prints
and photographs,
illustrated books,
printed ephemera, and more.

Rare book room
The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world. Over the last ten years, a company called "Octavo" embarked on digitally photographing some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries. These books were photographed at very high resolution (in some cases at over 200 megabytes per page).
This site contains all of the books (about 400) that have been digitized to date. These range over a wide variety of topics and rarity. The books are presented so that the viewer can examine all the pages in medium to medium-high resolution.

World ebook Library Consortia

Housed in World Public Library Multi-Terabyte servernetwork is the world's largest digital archive of PDF eBooks and eDocuments. Our collection hosts more than 500,000+ PDF eBooks and eDocuments.As a member you will have complete access to the entire collection. Our collection is constantly growing. Our projection is to reach 600,000 by fall of 2008.

08/01/2008

The true beauty of libraries

The book "Libraries" by Candida Höfer and with an introduction by Umberto Eco is a real journey into the beauty of or physical book collections around the world, it makes people reconsider the thought that everything has to become available online, this is a tribute to those taking care of our national heritage and history.

Here is a taste of some of the libraries:

British Library and their "Turning the pages" project

Try to turn the pages in some of the beautiful books in the British library collection. The books are being opened with the use of shockwave, if you don't have or want to use shockwave there are alternative versions. Among the books in the award winning turning the pages project you will find Mercator's Atlas from the 1570s, Mercator was one of the most known map makers of the 16th century.

Read Print

A great free online resource for books, poems and short stories.

03/01/2008

Webaroo-Your web to go-Mobilizing web content

It's becoming more and more common to offer webpackages and possibilities to study web content on the go on your mobile phone, or even offline stored in packages always available. Webaroo is one producer offering this possibility. You could also take the content of this blog with you, just press the button in the bottom of the right column of this blog. If you feel that the link depth of 5 is too much and takes to long to download just download webaroo and choose your own link depth for your web package.

Happy new year to all you blog readers!

I hope the new year will bring a lot of new gadgets, widgets and resources to write about on this blog. Last year was certainly a year with a lot of new products seeing the daylight.

20/12/2007

OSkope visual search engines

A very cool visual search engine and organizer that lets you search :

Another completely new way of thinking search engines is the concept Space Time 3D.
It allows you to make searches and see them presented in 3D inside your browser, this is the ultimate coolness.

Thinkmap visual thesaurus

A whole new of looking at words.

19/12/2007

Frappr Maps-blogging librarians
Here is a small collection of library blogs on a map.

18/12/2007

Genocide in West Papua-WHY ARE THE WORLD NOT REACTING?
Free West Papua!

Occupied by the indonesians in the 60s and still being occupied. This part of New Guinea still has large areas of untouched rainforest and natural resources. The people are experiencing torture and genocide by the indonesians who only are "milking" the area for its resources, but also other countries have interests in the rich western papuan natural resources, and that's probably why nobody is reacting to the violation of basic human rights. Take a look at koteka.net to learn more about West-Papua or only Papua which the area is also called.

West Papua documentary (Part 1-3)

14/12/2007

Zoho

Online office, word processor and a range of other products from Zoho zervices .

13/12/2007

The Dewey browser 2.0

For all you librarians using the dewey classification system it's worth checking out this borwser project started by OCLC research.

12/12/2007

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf

NTNU library has now bought a great package of encyclopedias and dictionaries calles Oxford Digital Reference Shelf. We have bought the following titles:

11/12/2007

Instant Messaging at work.
Makes co-workers more accesible?

More and more employees have seen the benefits of using instant messaging in addition to regular mail. It's easier to see if the persons you want to reach is available or not and usually you get a quicker answer back. Many have seen problems with the huge amount of different IM providers, but today its no problem, several programs are able to handle different IM accounts, supporting simultaneous connections to AIM®, MSN®, Yahoo!®, GoogleTalk®, ICQ®,Jabber, and MySpace IM. etc. With JiveTalk™ for the iPone and iPod Touch you could for instance use Jivetalk.

Speedymarks

SpeedyMarks makes it easy to create visual bookmarks and quickly open your favourite web sites. It is insprired by Operas Speed Dial feature. You can link from your web site to SpeedyMarks so that your web site can be easily added. Just use http://www.speedymarksadd=URL with your web site URL as parameter (make sure it's properly encoded).

The iPhone/Ipod Touch version "iPhoneMarks could be found here

Here is an example of how to use :
http://www.speedymarks.com?add=http://ubitlibrary.blogspot.com