ProfDev 1/11/05
Librarians and Google share a mission
'...to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. We support librarians like yourself who work each day to further that mission.'
Google are launching a newsletter for librarians. You can sign up here.
Instant Messaging via the Web
This could be useful for our PN users, a way of using all the major IM clients via a web page.
US school swaps books for bytes
A school in Arizona, US, has thrown out its paper-based text books and is relying solely on laptops and digital material to teach its pupils
(thanks to sally crossthwaite for this)
Jargon Update
Lots of talk about Web 2.0 at the moment, for instant enlightenment go here.
Brits don’t know what blogs are…
Well you all do as you are reading one now, but apparently lots of people got blogging mixed up with a similar sounding word beginning with D…
Library jobs and branches cut after losses on DVDs
'FURIOUS protesters took to the streets on Thursday after learning that at least eight of Bucks' 35 libraries are set to be closed down.'
A very interesting story see below for links.
Covered by the Guardian
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1593822,00.html
The local press
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/display.var.638915.0.0.php
And the County Council review that started it all.
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/libraries/review/
Gates unveils his vision of a future made of silicon
Bill Gates arrived in London yesterday to deliver his vision of the future and predict the eventual demise of paper at the hands of silicon.
Helpers for local and family history
(Higher Education Libraries in your PERsonal history reSearch)
…is an online guide to using the resources held in London University's libraries and archives for family and local history research.
Helpers is intended to be used as a second line of attack in your research. If you've exhausted all the possibilities in your local library or with the census data and you've come up against a brick wall, or you want to deepen your understanding of your family history, then this may be the place that can help you.
Libraries lure teens with pizza, movies…
Last year the US National Endowment for the Arts announced that the number of Americans reading books had been steadilydeclining over the last two decades. To counteract this trend, public libraries across the country are reaching out to teenagers with interesting methods...
Shakeup will give schools independence
New proposals for education were set out in a White Paper published by the government yesterday.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1600635,00.htmlGuardian, pp12-13, 26 OctoberSee also: This is our vision (but feel free to reject it) (Daily Telegraph, p4, 26 October)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/26/nscho26.xml
Private firms poised to run state schools after reform (Guardian, p1, 26 October)http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1600797,00.html
Parents in charge of schools will opt for social selection (Guardian, p33, 26 October)http://education.guardian.co.uk/policy/story/0,,1600744,00.html
Plans for education reform get a cool reception from parents (Times, p4, 26 October)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-1843446,00.html
The story of a white paper (Guardian, pp8-13, 26 October)http://education.guardian.co.uk/policy/story/0,,1600866,00.html
(CILIP Information Services)
One in three has bought a book just to look intelligent
One in three of those polled for a survey commissioned by the British Airports Authority and travel website Expedia admitted they had bought a book 'solely to look intelligent'.
Brighton rocks.
Eco library clinches the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award for 2005.
'...to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. We support librarians like yourself who work each day to further that mission.'
Google are launching a newsletter for librarians. You can sign up here.
Instant Messaging via the Web
This could be useful for our PN users, a way of using all the major IM clients via a web page.
US school swaps books for bytes
A school in Arizona, US, has thrown out its paper-based text books and is relying solely on laptops and digital material to teach its pupils
(thanks to sally crossthwaite for this)
Jargon Update
Lots of talk about Web 2.0 at the moment, for instant enlightenment go here.
Brits don’t know what blogs are…
Well you all do as you are reading one now, but apparently lots of people got blogging mixed up with a similar sounding word beginning with D…
Library jobs and branches cut after losses on DVDs
'FURIOUS protesters took to the streets on Thursday after learning that at least eight of Bucks' 35 libraries are set to be closed down.'
A very interesting story see below for links.
Covered by the Guardian
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1593822,00.html
The local press
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/display.var.638915.0.0.php
And the County Council review that started it all.
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/libraries/review/
Gates unveils his vision of a future made of silicon
Bill Gates arrived in London yesterday to deliver his vision of the future and predict the eventual demise of paper at the hands of silicon.
Helpers for local and family history
(Higher Education Libraries in your PERsonal history reSearch)
…is an online guide to using the resources held in London University's libraries and archives for family and local history research.
Helpers is intended to be used as a second line of attack in your research. If you've exhausted all the possibilities in your local library or with the census data and you've come up against a brick wall, or you want to deepen your understanding of your family history, then this may be the place that can help you.
Libraries lure teens with pizza, movies…
Last year the US National Endowment for the Arts announced that the number of Americans reading books had been steadilydeclining over the last two decades. To counteract this trend, public libraries across the country are reaching out to teenagers with interesting methods...
Shakeup will give schools independence
New proposals for education were set out in a White Paper published by the government yesterday.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1600635,00.htmlGuardian, pp12-13, 26 OctoberSee also: This is our vision (but feel free to reject it) (Daily Telegraph, p4, 26 October)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/26/nscho26.xml
Private firms poised to run state schools after reform (Guardian, p1, 26 October)http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1600797,00.html
Parents in charge of schools will opt for social selection (Guardian, p33, 26 October)http://education.guardian.co.uk/policy/story/0,,1600744,00.html
Plans for education reform get a cool reception from parents (Times, p4, 26 October)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-1843446,00.html
The story of a white paper (Guardian, pp8-13, 26 October)http://education.guardian.co.uk/policy/story/0,,1600866,00.html
(CILIP Information Services)
One in three has bought a book just to look intelligent
One in three of those polled for a survey commissioned by the British Airports Authority and travel website Expedia admitted they had bought a book 'solely to look intelligent'.
Brighton rocks.
Eco library clinches the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award for 2005.
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