Presentation by Char Booth at recent ARL meeting in Oregon. Revaluing Libraries: Content, Container, or Concept? from char booth Keynote given at the 2012 ACRL-Oregon conference in Corbett, Oregon, 26 October 2012.This is probably better via the youtube below.Audio available at http://bit.ly/acrlor12-boothaudio, video courtesy of Jim Holmes at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N16b2sMd_Ww....
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
The fight over open access in the UK has been joined by David Willets, the governments Universities Ministers proclamation that all publicly funded research will be immediately publically available by 2014 (Guardian):All the concerned groups said they agreed with providing easier access to academic research, but Professor Howard Hotson, a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, who sits on the steering...
Friday, January 25, 2013
In Thailand, every house and building has a spirit house and this impressive example was located on the grounds of the Siam Intercontinental where the PND family lived in 1968-9. I've since been told that the next brother down in the clan used to rearrange the figurines and other movable objects around...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Presentation on the New Culture of Learning by Judy O'Connell of Charles Sturt University, Sydney. Her introduction:Web 2.0 allows students and educators to create and interact both synchronously and asynchronously, formally or informally, at school, at home, in distance education programs, in the workplace, on all manner of devices. This shift has required an open mind about future possibilities,...
Monday, January 21, 2013
California is testing the adoption of some MOOC into the 'traditional' carriculem (IHEd):Gov. Jerry Brown wants California’s public institutions to take a hard look at MOOCs. Along with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he is encouraging experimentation with MOOC platforms for introductory and remedial courses. Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford University computer science professor who co-founded...
Friday, January 18, 2013
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Aerial View Harbor Freeway @ Manchester 1971 Flying into Los Angeles in 1971 was a smoggy experience which accounts for the bad scan. Flying into LA can be an awesome experience especially for the first time. As the aircraft clears the last bare hills to the east the city spreads out like a wall to...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
"Everything is a service" (Redux) from Sylvain CottongConsultant Sylvain Cottong's presentation on the evolving development of 'service' as a products defining attribute and in this presentation he takes us through how you might define a service as a product.A new marketing paradigm ⤑ The basis of all exchange is service ⤑ Goods are a distribution mechanism for service provision ⤑ Value is always...
Monday, January 14, 2013
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FDR, WSC and Middle Man - Mayfair 2009It seems to some that we’ve entered a period of stasis in the ongoing transformation of the publishing industry. This time last year, I noted that the routine operations of many publishers had fully realized the transition to electronic content and absorbed its implications. ...
Kno launch ExTextbook Analytics tool that they hope will improve learning. Is it creepy? From LibraryJournal:What’s interesting about Kno’s new analytic tools is that the company claims it will be leaving teachers and professors out of the loop. The student’s metrics and their dashboard information will be private unless they want to share information with friends. “It’s a personal study dashboard,”...
Thursday, January 10, 2013
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This was shot through the windows of the bus carrying us from the plane to the terminal which accounts for the white discoloration on the image. The welcoming committee at Tehran's International Airport is a lot more diverse in this photo than you would likely see today. Today, women are not allowed in...
Interesting article in The Economist from early December:In 1962 one cent of every dollar spent in America went on higher education; today this figure has tripled. Yet despite spending a greater proportion of its GDP on universities than any other country, America has only the 15th-largest proportion of young people with a university education. Wherever the money is coming from, and however it is...
Monday, January 7, 2013
Jordan Edmiston end of year m/a review (pdf) From the press release:Burgeoning innovation, rising corporate investment and a year-end rush to beat the tax man drove robust mergers and acquisitions in 2012 for the media, information, marketing and technology sectors. M&A surged to 1,351 transactions for the year, or 50% more than in 2011, at a total value of nearly $75 billion, according to The...
Sunday, January 6, 2013
The "bullshit" war and new fiction in the age of war (Guardian):Powers, himself an Iraq veteran, believes that the flood of fiction – and his own award-winning The Yellow Birds – are helping Americans understand the war better than journalism has done. "One of the reasons that I wrote this book was the idea that people kept saying: 'What was it like over there?'," Powers explained. Yet he was puzzled...
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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Not posted before some of my interesting shots from 2012. Under the El in Chicago trying to keep out of the red hot sun.A special trip to Kings Cross Station to see the re-opening.Although around the corner, things in Kings Cross are pretty much the same.England did quite well in 2012Little Queenie unexpectedly...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
A round-up of some of the prognostications about publishing in 2013.From Forbes (Jeremy Greenfield) Three predictions for Book Publishing:This year, for the second time in a row, I spoke with about a dozen ebook and book-publishing experts to get their predictions on what would happen in book publishing in 2013. I compiled the information and published this: Ten Bold Predictions for Ebooks and Digital...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
From a hydrofoil between Hong Kong and Macau. This skyline is now dominated by mega casinos some owned by republican charmer Shelly Adelson. Shame there wasn't more planning and forethought.Check out my book on Blurb in print and iPad versions just use the code SHARING10 at Blurb Bookstore's checkout...
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