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Tag Archives: Books
Profiles of Information Seeking in Everyday Life
We recently acquired a book published in 2011 by MIT Press, Everyday Information: The Evolution of Information Seeking in America, that might be a source of readings for many of our credit courses. Here’s the table of contents:
- Print edition
- Ebook (via ebrary)
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Nick Carr’s Argument About Links in The Shallows
I know that there are a number of folks currently reading or who have recently read Nick Carr’s book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, or who are using the book in their classes. One of Carr’s arguments is that links embedded in hypertext are distracting to the reader. Carr refers to some studies that he claims back up that assertion. A recent blog post by Scott Rosenberg examines that claim much more closely and finds that Carr is misrepresenting those studies he cites.
Rosenberg, Scott. “In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, Hypertext and Delinkification.” Wordyard, 30 Aug. 2010. Web. 31 Aug. 2010.
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Mashups at SLA
I attended a program on Mashups at SLA yesterday. Nicole Engard, the editor of the forthcoming book on Library Mashups (published by Information Today), was the speaker. You can find more about the book here. Although I thought some librarians in the audience where more knowlegable about certain technical aspects of working with mashups, Nicole engaged the audience throughout. She spent most of an hour actually showing examples of mashups used in business settings and in libraries and then did a live demo of how to use Yahoo Pipes to bring together news streams from the Washington Post and the New York Times. She suggested going to programmableweb.com to search for more examples and reading an article by Jody Fagen, “Mashing Up Multiple Web Feeds Using Yahoo! pipes” in the Nov/Dec 2007 issue of Computers in Libraries. The slides from her talk are on the Library Mashups blog here.
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Tagged Articles, Books, Computers in Libraries, Conferences, Feeds, Information Today, Jody Condit Fagan, Mashups, New York Times, Nicole Engard, Presentations, RSS, SLA, Washington Post, Yahoo! Pipes
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Guide to Working with Sources in History Research
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Elizabeth Shawn Mills has written a terrific and detailed book that delves into what is a source in history and how to evaluate, interpret, and cite sources.
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