Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 22, 2009
Guest Blog from Amy McNeely, Bookshare Librarian This past week, April 12th through April 18th, was National Library Week. Every year, the American Library Association picks a different theme for the occasion. This year’s theme was “Worlds connect @ your library.” Bookshare is a unique library. Library 2.0
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 10, 2010
Something called Zen Computer that gives you a meditation for every function key on the keyboard (the @ reminds you to consider your position in the universe!)).) Footnote: NLS stands for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, part of the U.S. Seriously, you guys rock. Best, Chancey Thanks, Chancey.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 28, 2010
Libraries :: New York Public Library. Schools and universities :: UCLA. Tags: FourSquare Mobile Technology. For the 10 types of nonprofits listed below, adding your nonprofit as a venue to Foursquare needs to quickly be moved to the top of your To Do List: 1. Museums and Art Galleries :: Museum of Modern Art.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 8, 2010
Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2010
with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • Tags: print disabled print disabilities Benetech publishers blind SCCR Bookshare WIPO SCCR20.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 25, 2008
But we don't have a standard vocabulary for addressing common problems, and as we solve them, we rely on institutional memory to retain the lessons learned rather than finding a way to universalize and document them. The solution is a design pattern library, a place where Yahoo! You can access a limited design pattern library here.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 8, 2010
I would class this as TVI (nearly identical) plus additional provisions creating a similar exception for schools, libraries and archives. Right now, it’s not in great shape: • No global exception norm, but voluntary agreement by rightsholders (that’s today’s status quo), with model agreements that are terrible from the nonprofit/library side.
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