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
Tech Soup
APRIL 7, 2009
Some people have responded to the news with little more than bemusement that Encarta lasted as long as it did, and many have pointed to Wikipedia as Encarta's killer and successor. For me, Encarta was never a replacement for the library; it was an intellectual onramp to the library. Photo: Bright Tal.
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Tech Soup
MAY 22, 2009
To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me. Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. Tags: E-Learning E-Learning Reference Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0
NTEN
JUNE 10, 2011
The Library Society of the World is one I use frequently. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. Some are huge.
Museum 2.0
JULY 1, 2008
ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 Dear Museum 2.0-ers,
NTEN
AUGUST 25, 2009
And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Much has been made of the possibility that technology will mitigate inequality by allowing the have-nots to leapfrog certain historical aspects of development.
Museum 2.0
JULY 13, 2009
The extent to which I can learn from Wikipedia or waste time on Youtube is directly proportional to the volume of other users' participation--creators, critics, and spectators alike. The Haarlem Oost library book drops are one example, but I'm sure you have seen or created others. Tags: web2.0 Thanks in advance! interview.
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