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Jeff's Robots- toy robots & tons of
robotics links!
Jeff's Robots- toy robots & tons of
robotics links!
01/26/2004 10:19 AM§¨§¨€Œ¨§Š€Œ‡§ ˆ …„‡§ŠŠ ¨‡ ƒ„ ˆ¨§ª .. An uber-nerd's robot collection
.. Jeff's Robots .. robots .. +
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Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan
Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan
12/17/2004 06:40 PMResearch and Markets has announced the addition of Next-Generation
Personal Robot Market 2004 to their offering. [PRWEB Oct 18, 2004]
librarian.net
librarian.net
04/18/2004 02:55 PMLibrarian.net has been linking to classification s .. librarian.net
gives the blog a link with exclam! .. I Was Mentioned on Librarian.net
.. self-sufficient .. Jessamyn West .. librarian .. Jessamyn ..
job
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librarian.net at the DNC
librarian.net at the DNC
07/27/2004 04:08 PMlibrarian.net/dnc
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"Librarian.net"
"Librarian.net"
07/29/2004 01:02 AMBlogging Librarian I
Blogging Librarian I
12/19/2004 03:36 PMAre you Chief
Blogging Officer Material?
"Government is already rife with chiefs, why not one more?
HighBeam Research, Inc. has set
the pace by announcing today the appointment of Christopher Locke as
Chief Blogging Officer (CBO). Looks like the role of CBO is a pace
setter who creates a buzz about the company products and enlists
others to blog the cause. Ironically, the announcement came in the
form of a (oh, so 20th century) press
release." [RSS in
Government]
Yes! More ammo for my theme that libraries need to treat blogs like
newsletters and devote the same types of resources (time, training,
graphic design, staff, etc.) to them. Blogs humanize, and library web
sites desperately need some humanizing. I really do have to find my
notes and write up last month's conference talk.
JavaScript-Librarian-0.01
JavaScript-Librarian-0.01
04/03/2005 05:38 AMLibrarian Tees: Welcome
Librarian Tees: Welcome
10/28/2003 11:07 PMsite with librarian-related t-shirts ..
These
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The Shifted Librarian
The Shifted Librarian
12/19/2003 06:19 PMRobotic Librarian
Robotic Librarian
02/17/2004 10:26 PMThe new Librarian at the Valparaiso University in Valparaiso Indiana
will
be
a Robotic Librarian. The books will put in specially designed
metal bins and the students can select any of the obscure books from
the internet
that they want then the robotic crane device goes fetches selections
and
drop them
to an accessible location for the students to pick up at their
convenience. The school hopes to eventually have about 600,000 books
in their system for check
out. (Other colleges also have installed simlar devices.) The high
tech library building
will cost about $33 million. I don't think they have such a cool
robotic librarian at my old alma matter. :-/
Informed Librarian
Informed Librarian
01/22/2004 02:12 AMInformed Librarianhttp://www.InformedLibrarian.
com/I am very pleased to announce that we have
received official word from
The Informed Librarian
that they have added our
Awareness Watch™ Newsletter
to the
titles
that they cover in each monthly issue of the
Informed
Librarian. We are very honored and will continue to offer the
finest quality content in each of our monthly Awareness Watch
Newsletters. Additional information as well as the current issue and
archives of previous issues are available by visiting
AwarenessWatch™ Newsletter website by clicking
here.
"Librarian Tees"
"Librarian Tees"
10/29/2003 03:28 AMRobot librarian
Robot librarian
07/21/2004 11:20 AMResearchers at Universitat Jaume I in Spain are designing a robot
librarian of sorts. The three-wheeled bot listens for verbal book
requests, heads to the approximate location of the title on a shelf,
and uses digital cameras to read the spines. The toughest challenge is
engineering a grasper with "fingernails" to pull out the book,
Professor Angel del Pobil told the BBC:
"It is mimicking the way we manipulate our hands. We have
constant feedback from tactile sensors, so it is moving very slowly.
In the first experiments, the books really got damaged because it was
pressing too hard. Now it touches gently."
LinkText to Librarian
Text to Librarian
04/25/2004 10:11 PMStartup
Offers Text Message Q&A Service
"Colly Myers, founding CEO of Symbian, has launched a new startup
in the UK, called issuebits.com, offering a search
engine-style service to answer any question by text message, reports
ElectricNews.net<
/A>.
UK mobile users can try it out by texting their question to short
code 63336. and "within (6) minutes they will get a text answer".
issuebits.com says it has patented Natural Language Processing
algorithms as well as real human researchers. The service goes live on
Orange and Vodafone networks in the UK on Thursday with the others to
follow." [textually.org]
Coming to a future near you: answering reference questions and
searching the library's catalog via text messaging.
Gumshoe Librarian: "Where in the World
Is..."
Gumshoe Librarian: "Where in the World
Is..."
08/03/2004 05:35 AM
A Bibliography of Recommended Websites for
Global Research IssuesGumshoe Librarian: "Where in the World Is..."http://www.llrx.com/fe
atures/gumshoe.htmA Bibliography of
Recommended Websites for Global Research Issues By Barbara Fullerton
and Sabrina I. PacificiAbstract from
Authors:This bibliography includes links to 73 websites
that Barbara and Sabrina presented during their July 13 program at the
2004 AALL Annual Conference in Boston. These sites represent a broad
but selective range of resources on topics that include business and
corporate data, global news, search engines, guides to international
and comparative law, country profiles and statistics, locating people,
businesses, places and useful services around the world, banking
resources, and data on terrorism and security issues. For the most
part, the sites we chose are free, although several may have a
fee-based component and/or require registration to obtain access to
the full complement of data available.
This has been added
to
Research Resources
Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog. This will be added to
International
Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
"Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as
source"
"Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as
source"
08/31/2004 02:14 AMBlogging Internet Librarian
Blogging Internet Librarian
11/04/2003 07:10 PMThis is the first librarian conference I've been to that is this
meta! Liz Lawley is
blogging, Steven M. Cohen
is blogging, and Aaron is
photoblogging. Kind of all at the same time. Greg Notess is on stage showing how to
find the various IL
blog posts using Daypop, Feedster, etc. He's making his
point nicely.... ;-)
BTW, here's shifted - Aaron is instant messaging me via
his cell phone... while he's sitting next to me photoblogging!
Best search engine? A librarian
Best search engine? A librarian
04/12/2004 07:29 AMBest search engine? A librarian (via Chicago Sun-Times) ..
More
suntimes.com/output/lifestyles/cst-nws-zay11.html
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New School Librarian Is a Robot (AP)
New School Librarian Is a Robot (AP)
02/17/2004 08:04 AMAP - There will soon be a new librarian at work at Valparaiso
University. This librarian won't get any days off because it's a
robot.
MyMusic Personal Librarian 2.5
MyMusic Personal Librarian 2.5
04/13/2004 05:10 PMA powerful database program designed to help you create & maintain
an inventory of your music collection.
Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as source
Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as source
08/29/2004 02:09 AMentire column bashing Wikipedia .. yesterday's Post-Standard .. writes
about
syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/10933389
72139211.xml
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Marian The Robot Librarian
Marian The Robot Librarian
07/24/2004 11:16 AMConfessions of a Science Librarian
Confessions of a Science Librarian
07/25/2004 05:51 AMConfessions of a Science Librarianhttp://jdupuis.blogspot.com/This weblog (by John Dupuis) features links and pointers to
information of interest to academic science librarians.
librarian.net : avoiding the PATRIOT Act
since 2001
librarian.net : avoiding the PATRIOT Act
since 2001
09/18/2004 10:51 PMsigns to display in your local library .. avoiding the PATRIOT Act
since 2001 .. Well I don't feel secure .. FBI might be monitoring ..
Or can you? .. ways around
librarian.net/technicality.html
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When a Search Engine Isn't Enough, Call
a Librarian?
When a Search Engine Isn't Enough, Call
a Librarian?
02/10/2004 02:41 AM"What's the name of the party that Ross Perot established?" a user
wanted to know.Ms. Tuckerman checked the Internet for a biography of
Mr. Perot. Then she quickly switched to an electronic database of
biographies to which the library subscribes. But even after scrolling
through several screens of text, she was unable to come up with a
satisfactory answer. ?
Shifted Librarian unpacks free CDs from
the RIAA
Shifted Librarian unpacks free CDs from
the RIAA
08/23/2004 06:36 AMCory Doctorow:
As a requirement of its price-fixing settlement with the Feds, the
RIAA is obliged to give thousands of CDs to public libraries. However,
as has been noted, the CDs they're sending around are worse than shit:
hundreds of copies of the years-old Whitney Houston single of the Star
Spangled Banner, that species of kidney.
Jenny Levine (AKA the Shifted Librarian) works at a library where the
RIAA care packages have started to come in. She reports on the
contents thereof:
Several of the boxes are literally cut on the side, and the cut goes
into the jewel cases themselves. Hence my declaration that we received
a ton of "cut-outs." Some of the boxes even have dates of 2001 and
2002 posted on the labels, which I hope doesn't mean the date they
were boxed up and put into storage. There is no way these boxes were
packed by mistake as the result of a computer glitch. Some of the
labels very clearly say 30 copies of this or that title, and I highly
doubt the labels were supposed to cut the boxes after boxing and
labeling them.
Link
Selected Presentations from Internet
Librarian Conference
Selected Presentations from Internet
Librarian Conference
11/19/2003 12:59 PMBeSpacific Nov 19 2003 12:06PM ET
Librarian Sues Harvard Over 'Pretty'
Bias (AP)
Librarian Sues Harvard Over 'Pretty'
Bias (AP)
03/22/2005 04:51 PMAP - A Harvard University librarian claims in a lawsuit that she has
been rejected repeatedly for promotion because she is black and is
perceived as just a "pretty girl" whose attire was too "sexy."
New Track for Public Librarians at
Internet Librarian!
New Track for Public Librarians at
Internet Librarian!
02/01/2005 10:09 PMMichael Stephens
is organizi
ng a track just for public librarians at October's Internet Librarian
conference. This is most welcome news because PLA books sessions at its conferences
too far in advance to address "current" trends, while most public
librarians I know feel LITA is beyond them. I think we can fill a real
niche here, especially since Michael plans to focus on practical
advice and tips, not theory. Even better, he's aiming the
sessions at small- to medium-sized libraries, those that need this the
most.
He's already got a few ideas that he wants to implement, but he's
also asking for comments, suggestions, offers, and discussion from all
public librarians. Got a topic that intrigues you? Heard about a "top
tech trend" but you're not sure how to actually implement it? Have
some ideas of your own? Share them all over on Michael's post. This is
your chance to help build a track that addresses YOUR needs. Help us
prove that if you build it [the public librarian track], they will
come!
Then make sure you register for Internet Librarian
(October 24-26, 2005). :-)
French librarian fears US domination on
the Internet
French librarian fears US domination on
the Internet
04/11/2005 11:37 PMTaipei Times Online Apr 12 2005 4:15AM GMT
Librarian of Congress Posts DMCA
Exemptions
Librarian of Congress Posts DMCA
Exemptions
10/28/2003 11:06 PMSearch Engine Friendly or Search
Friendly?
Search Engine Friendly or Search
Friendly?
08/16/2004 08:00 AMSource: ClickZ - Somewhere along SEM's evolution,
'search-engine-friendly design' came to mean friendly only to Google
or Yahoo. What happened to the user experience?...
Ask a Librarian - An Online Reference
Service from the Library of Congress
Ask a Librarian - An Online Reference
Service from the Library of Congress
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Ask a Librarian -
Library of Congress Online Reference ServiceAsk a Librarian - An Online Reference Service from the
Library of Congresshttp://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/
The primary mission of the Library of Congress is to
serve Members of the Congress and thereafter, the needs of the
government, other libraries, and members of the public. The Library's
staff will respond to reference and information requests in accordance
with this mission. Correspondents are encouraged to use local and
online resources. For those seeking further assistance from the
Library of Congress, the staff will respond to their reference and
information needs to the extent possible. Because the Library
participates in a global network of librarians working electronically
to answer questions, your online reference question may be submitted
to this global network for reply. Please note that the scope of the
services does not include: compilation of extensive bibliographies,
requests for information connected with contests, completion of school
or work assignments, translations or research in heraldry or family
history. This has been added to Reference Resources
Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog. This will be added to the
reference section of all the
2004-05 Internet
MiniGuides.
Accelerated Designs Announces Ultra
Librarian On-Line
Accelerated Designs Announces Ultra
Librarian On-Line
09/05/2004 02:40 AMCAD/CAE library creation and maintenance services now available
on-line. [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004]
Librarian of Congress grants DMCA
copyright exemptions
Librarian of Congress grants DMCA
copyright exemptions
11/05/2003 01:25 PM
The Librarian of
Congress
granted several
exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act ( DMCA ,
1998). The ruling covers
:
(1.) decoding lists of Web pages or directories blocked by Internet
filtering software, also known as censorware; (2.) circumventing
obsolete digital rights management devices called "dongles" that
prevent access due to malfunction or damage; (3.) accessing computer
programs and video games distributed in obsolete formats; and (4.)
accessing ebooks for which the publisher has disabled the read-aloud
function or the ability to use screen readers to render the text into
a specialized format, such as Braille for access by the blind.
The DMCA provides for the Librarian to review implementations
every three years. Seth
Finkelstein led the lobbying for this set. The majority of
requests for exemptions, however, did
not succeed, and the Act
remains
controversial .
Leading French librarian calls for
European counter to Google
Leading French librarian calls for
European counter to Google
03/19/2005 02:55 AM
The head librarian of the Bibliothèque nationale de France has
called for a European digitization project to counter or balance
Google. Jean-Noël Jeanneney critized Google for cultural bias :
the criteria of choice will be
heavily influenced -- even if we contribute
ourselves, uncomplainingly, to the riches of
this project -- by a point of view which is
Anglo-Saxon, with its specific approach to the
diversities of human civilization.
(thanks to Steven Kaye )
Dover Community Editorial: Librarian
asks Boston to stop the poppycock
Dover Community Editorial: Librarian
asks Boston to stop the poppycock
08/01/2004 03:33 AMthe Boston Public Library is the nation's oldest public
library
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Librarian of Congress names 50
recordings to the 2004 National
Recording Registry
Librarian of Congress names 50
recordings to the 2004 National
Recording Registry
04/07/2005 03:22 AMloc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-2004reg.html
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Sp2 Not Very PC Friendly
Sp2 Not Very PC Friendly
09/05/2004 02:39 PMTechTree Sep 5 2004 5:52PM GMT
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