Thursday, October 28, 2010

Can You Masturebate If You Chiken Pox

Express Library: New technologies offer a new service to libraries

economic crisis (yes, again, is everywhere) is strongly affecting U.S. public libraries. The marked decreases in the budget is forcing the closure of library branches, reducing opening hours and dismissal of library staff.

However, the spirit of public libraries to offer the best possible customer service continues in full force. Evidenced by the acquisition of a new device acquired by a growing number of U.S. public libraries.

His name is Express Library and it is a kind of metal cabinet with different departments, located on the outside of the library, which allows users borrow books when libraries are closed. The system is very simple: the user makes a reservation online and a few days later, picks up his book, dvd, etc. of a department, having previously introduced a digital code.

So the Express Library offers a new service to users, allowing them to borrow books at times when public libraries are closed. This is very important to many people who can not visit the library in their neighborhood because of their workday.

By offering a new service that previously had no public libraries, because no library can offer a lending service 24 hours a day, including holidays.

In any case, new technologies will not replace the library staff because, as stated James Lund (director of Red Wing Public Library) the true mission of libraries is public education, and a vending machine can not provide education. As he says, the citizens need to educators.

Therefore, it seems dangerous to the owner of the Wall Street Journal article here commented: "New technologies do without librarians." Can not think that machines can replace the library @ s @ s. Believe that libraries are simply retailers of books is a dull picture of what they are and represent. Perhaps with headlines such as "simple" wants to think the American taxpayer that public libraries can be replaced by machinery and, therefore, public libraries are an expense that the government can do without. I think not, although in the case of a financial newspaper and conservative, who knows.

Note: original article appeared in the Wall Street Journal, dated Oct. 25, by Conor Dougherty.

Can You Masturebate If You Chiken Pox

Express Library: New technologies offer a new service to libraries

economic crisis (yes, again, is everywhere) is strongly affecting U.S. public libraries. The marked decreases in the budget is forcing the closure of library branches, reducing opening hours and dismissal of library staff.

However, the spirit of public libraries to offer the best possible customer service continues in full force. Evidenced by the acquisition of a new device acquired by a growing number of U.S. public libraries.

His name is Express Library and it is a kind of metal cabinet with different departments, located on the outside of the library, which allows users borrow books when libraries are closed. The system is very simple: the user makes a reservation online and a few days later, picks up his book, dvd, etc. of a department, having previously introduced a digital code.

So the Express Library offers a new service to users, allowing them to borrow books at times when public libraries are closed. This is very important to many people who can not visit the library in their neighborhood because of their workday.

By offering a new service that previously had no public libraries, because no library can offer a lending service 24 hours a day, including holidays.

In any case, new technologies will not replace the library staff because, as stated James Lund (director of Red Wing Public Library) the true mission of libraries is public education, and a vending machine can not provide education. As he says, the citizens need to educators.

Therefore, it seems dangerous to the owner of the Wall Street Journal article here commented: "New technologies do without librarians." Can not think that machines can replace the library @ s @ s. Believe that libraries are simply retailers of books is a dull picture of what they are and represent. Perhaps with headlines such as "simple" wants to think the American taxpayer that public libraries can be replaced by machinery and, therefore, public libraries are an expense that the government can do without. I think not, although in the case of a financial newspaper and conservative, who knows.

Note: original article appeared in the Wall Street Journal, dated Oct. 25, by Conor Dougherty.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Play Pokemon On Ipod Online

public if the new and was invented: Dewey

Tod @ s who have some kind of link with the libraries, either as professionals or users, we know these numbers that appear in the spines of books in the ingots. Part of the Universal Decimal Classification or UDC. Long neglected, mainly because it is considered by many as a rigid structure with a very flexible syntax, or because it is a customer-unfriendly the biblitotecas. Gradually, they take territory interest groups or other organizational systems more understandable by users. However, the CDU is still there, present mainly in public libraries.

Dewey Classification, analog of the CDU, was invented earlier. Been with us no more and no less than in 1876. Despite all the criticism it has received all its limitations, I always thought it was a wonderful wit, a few numbers that are able to summarize all human knowledge.
Most surprising is that this conclusion has come Phil Shapiro (PC World writer, educator and activist of access to technology). In a recent article said the problems encountered in locating economic USB drives and 256 mb (enough capacity for storage of text) for youth and adults with low incomes. It took several months
to find a supplier that provided just the right product. States that if there had been a number of the Dewey Decimal Classification related to the product, had quickly found the product you are looking for.

Cree would have to create a DDC encoding for Internet content. And consider that the appropriate entities to create the coding, in a participatory way, would the Wikimedia Foundation, American Library Association and the Internet Archive. And the Gates Foundation would provide funding for the project.

Interestingly, this idea came up to Phil Shapiro when he observed a librarian I had memorized the Dewey Decimal Classification and indicated to users exactly where to locate the materials they wanted.

Can you imagine something similar on the Internet? Of course, it is clear that, despite all the advances in semantic relations of terms, the ability to promptly and organizational systems offer unmatched number still appears. The truth is that to extrapolate a system similar to Dewey to the Internet is a very attractive idea. I just do not see it, it seems too complicated, and do not know if practical. But what if the new, if the future were already invented?

Note: original article appeared in PCWorld, written by Phil Shapiro, dated September 29.

Play Pokemon On Ipod Online

public if the new and was invented: Dewey

Tod @ s who have some kind of link with the libraries, either as professionals or users, we know these numbers that appear in the spines of books in the ingots. Part of the Universal Decimal Classification or UDC. Long neglected, mainly because it is considered by many as a rigid structure with a very flexible syntax, or because it is a customer-unfriendly the biblitotecas. Gradually, they take territory interest groups or other organizational systems more understandable by users. However, the CDU is still there, present mainly in public libraries.

Dewey Classification, analog of the CDU, was invented earlier. Been with us no more and no less than in 1876. Despite all the criticism it has received all its limitations, I always thought it was a wonderful wit, a few numbers that are able to summarize all human knowledge.
Most surprising is that this conclusion has come Phil Shapiro (PC World writer, educator and activist of access to technology). In a recent article said the problems encountered in locating economic USB drives and 256 mb (enough capacity for storage of text) for youth and adults with low incomes. It took several months
to find a supplier that provided just the right product. States that if there had been a number of the Dewey Decimal Classification related to the product, had quickly found the product you are looking for.

Cree would have to create a DDC encoding for Internet content. And consider that the appropriate entities to create the coding, in a participatory way, would the Wikimedia Foundation, American Library Association and the Internet Archive. And the Gates Foundation would provide funding for the project.

Interestingly, this idea came up to Phil Shapiro when he observed a librarian I had memorized the Dewey Decimal Classification and indicated to users exactly where to locate the materials they wanted.

Can you imagine something similar on the Internet? Of course, it is clear that, despite all the advances in semantic relations of terms, the ability to promptly and organizational systems offer unmatched number still appears. The truth is that to extrapolate a system similar to Dewey to the Internet is a very attractive idea. I just do not see it, it seems too complicated, and do not know if practical. But what if the new, if the future were already invented?

Note: original article appeared in PCWorld, written by Phil Shapiro, dated September 29.

Friday, October 1, 2010

How Many Cows Are Killed A Day

The personal library: more than a librarian, educator

Today I bring you an interesting and innovative proposal for the Drexel University (Pennsylvania, United States) that the trend is increasingly necessary to be close to the needs of users, while more visible the work of the libraries (but not least).

The "Personal Librarian Program" Drexel University librarian assigned to each of the 2750 freshmen. Before you start the course, librarians are placed in contact with students via email mail. Then, meet in person with them and offer them a crash course in library supply. And your support will last for an entire semester, which will encourage them to use library resources and help them to use.

Librarians have a role similar to that of Personal Trainers. And this support is shown essential because, as stated by Danuta A. Nitecki (dean of libraries at Drexel University), the biggest problem students have is how to use search engines, but what you want to find. "Often they do not know what you are looking for," Case Ms. Nitecki.
This program at Drexel University is to redefine the role of the library. And also to get students to interact with librarians, emphasize and reinforce their role as educators.
As Ms. Nitecki said, this initiative is to ensure that libraries more comfortable and attractive.

In fact, the Personal Librarian Program has already attracted interest from many other college and university libraries.

no doubt an effort may seem almost pharaonic for many universities, but it is a possibility of changing the view on the libraries of our users. Change for the better. The effort may require many hours of planning and preparation of materials, other than customer service hours. But certainly worth the effort. I hope it sets an example.

Note1: source is the news in "The Chronical of Higher Education" , written by Travis Kaya, dated September 14.

How Many Cows Are Killed A Day

The personal library: more than a librarian, educator

Today I bring you an interesting and innovative proposal for the Drexel University (Pennsylvania, United States) that the trend is increasingly necessary to be close to the needs of users, while more visible the work of the libraries (but not least).

The "Personal Librarian Program" Drexel University librarian assigned to each of the 2750 freshmen. Before you start the course, librarians are placed in contact with students via email mail. Then, meet in person with them and offer them a crash course in library supply. And your support will last for an entire semester, which will encourage them to use library resources and help them to use.

Librarians have a role similar to that of Personal Trainers. And this support is shown essential because, as stated by Danuta A. Nitecki (dean of libraries at Drexel University), the biggest problem students have is how to use search engines, but what you want to find. "Often they do not know what you are looking for," Case Ms. Nitecki.
This program at Drexel University is to redefine the role of the library. And also to get students to interact with librarians, emphasize and reinforce their role as educators.
As Ms. Nitecki said, this initiative is to ensure that libraries more comfortable and attractive.

In fact, the Personal Librarian Program has already attracted interest from many other college and university libraries.

no doubt an effort may seem almost pharaonic for many universities, but it is a possibility of changing the view on the libraries of our users. Change for the better. The effort may require many hours of planning and preparation of materials, other than customer service hours. But certainly worth the effort. I hope it sets an example.

Note1: source is the news in "The Chronical of Higher Education" , written by Travis Kaya, dated September 14.