digital book reader

BBC NEWS | Technology | Amazon debuts digital book reader

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carve up the turkey

BBC NEWS | Technology | Content carve up of net begins

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kick me while I am down

I still can't find a grant for my pretend grant project. This is really starting to piss me off. I just want to digitize a small collection of old/rare periodicals but the only digitization grants I am coming across are government grants. I am about to pull my hair our because this is really starting to piss me off. I have a few more options but after that I am sunk guess I will have to come up with a new idea.

beyond that....my computer completely crashed yesterday. I give up.

sigh

Comcast blocks some Internet traffic - Online World - MSNBC.com

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argh!

because media owners are having such a rough go of it.....bah!

Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners - New York Times

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edelweiss

Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me

Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever

Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Son in Sound of Music family dies


Edelweiß, Edelweiß,
Du grüßt mich jeden Morgen,
Sehe ich dich,
Freue ich mich,
Und vergess' meine Sorgen.
Schmücke das Heimatland,
Schön und weiß,
Blühest wie die Sterne.
Edelweiß, Edelweiß,
Ach, ich hab dich so gerne.

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skype

BBC NEWS | Business | Skype founders quit as executives

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oooh...maybe that wasn't such a good idea.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple iPhone warning proves true

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wheel of time

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Fantasy author Jordan dies at 58

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go straight to jail - do not collect 200 dollars

Okay, perhaps they aren't going to jail but that still is a hefty fine at least to poor commoner me. I know microsoft makes more money in say a minute than I will probably make in my entire life so this fine probably won't hurt them to bad. They do have a monopoly though. Granted I am a windows user (macs are the devil...or at least they do not like me at all evil pieces of machinery) but it is next to impossible for anything to compete with windows.

EU court dismisses Microsoft appeal - International Business - MSNBC.com

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behold....the power of money

BBC NEWS | Europe | Turkish dam threatens historic site

Something about this makes the historian in me want to cry. I am upset. I do feel for the pople and the lack of jobs but those things are priceless!

What do I know...

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fun times

Led Zeppelin set for reunion gig in London - Yahoo! News

so this looks like a fun time.

I am frustrated with school. I am sure everyone that enjoys emails from me is frustrated with me talking about it :o) I need to get myself settled in and comprehending what the heck is going on because it is giving me nightmares. Okay, not really. But I am dreaming about school. I need to stop thinking about school so I can think about other important things like my realpeoplejob. Finding a halloween costume. Taping the ohiostate football game for my friend that is getting read to head to Iraq. Go to a going away party for a different person going to Iraq.

...I'd much rather be going to a welcome home party.

Such is the life of military men and women.

Speaking of realpeoplejobs...I probably should get back to work reading NegroMania and scanning American Slavery As it is: Testimony of a thousand Witness. I like to cover both ends of the spectrum. You could say that I am "fair and balanced" heh.

Now if only I can control my brain. ergh.

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damn the man

BBC NEWS | Technology | US backing for two-tier internet

OOOH mike this one is for you!

sigh. what a horrible idea!

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dress code

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

"Mini Skirt gets grounded"


Oh the things that happen these days. It is not like she was going to church. or any of her "unmentionable's" were showing. seriously? Do we take her out back and stone her next? Just curious?

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HACK MANIA

BBC NEWS | Technology | Cyber crime tool kits go on sale

oh the riff-raff these days...

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read, set, GO!

Looks like we are back to the grind of things.

I have nothing witty to say at the moment. It is almost 4 and I am leaving early today as the bosses are at the SAA conference in Chicago. (aka the windy city) Hopefully they are havinga good time. I might do something with the archives for my grant thing - dont' know what do perhaps there is some super awesome collection that needs fixing or something. Who Knows. I will talk to the boss man when he gets back. I coudl also jsut make something up completely. that always workds.

sigh

You're right...I didn't want to listen to music while I was at the bar.

Fun times

Last day of my job. It is somewhat bittersweet but I am excited to start my new digitization project. I was talking to the head of Academic Technology at work and he asked if digital projects were something that I was really interested in. I told him that it was more to the pont of something I fell into continually. Perhaps this is a sign. I don't do much (okay any) of the web design. I do a lot of the background work scanning finding the documents...putting things together uploading them onto the software. I do like making the materials accesible but then again I do hate reading long books online.

I feel that I have fallen behind on these blog enteries. Life moves too fast sometimes. I have gotten alot from this semester no matter how hectic it has been at times.

I am a little scared while also being excited for the fall semester. :o) I will survive. I will enjoy the few weeks off though!!!!! Well off from school anywhy....

Pirating

today is not my day. I was working on my webpage and my page done changed completely out of the blue. Now I am trying to get to the style sheet and the rules aren't showing up...so lord knows where they went. I am slightly more than frustrated.

sooo close I can taste it..

I will admit...I am losing some steam. I am so close to being done for the summer and I am soo tired that come next week I will be quite happy. :o) Not that I don't like being in school/the program I could just stand to sleep for about 3 days straight.

I don't think I would be so tired right now if it weren't for the two weeks of teacher workshops that my job just hosted so I've had to put in over time while trying to finish my work for school at the same time as trying to finish my job because I start my new one on Wednesday. I am super excited for my new job. YAY for a new digital project. I won't be doing as much research which will make me sad (very sad actually...I am such a nerd) but this project will be a great resource. After this grant project though I think I might need to find a real person job. I reallylike these jobs but switching jobs or knowing that your job is going to end after a few months is driving me insane. I like the projects though so it makes me sad a tthe same time. I am so rather confused about life.

can you hear me now?

BBC NEWS | Technology | Home cells signal mobile change

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Hackers

Researchers Hack Into iPhone Via Web: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

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we have arrived

Helloooooo Pittsburgh.

We attempted to get into to Pittsburgh in time for the 2600 help session...but our detour led us to another detour. Oh well we arrived and we arrived saftely. The hotel is rather nice. I haven't met my roommates yet.

I am exhausted between preparing for this trip/getting my homework done plus preparing for my work conferences which are running this week and next week. I honestly don't know which way is up anymore. I am glad I didn't have to drive or who knows where I would have ended up.

We had a nice amount of time this afternoon we went to a nice lunch. I am stuffed - I really think I could go for a nap. I might curl up under this computer desk.

I can't wait until things get started.

oooooh google.

Google faces landmark lawsuit over sponsored links - Times Online

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annoying technology

This article provides a short outlook at the technology that drives us a little crazy. While they don't talk about it much in the article "Digital Rights Management" earned the number 12 spot for most annoying!

Most-hated gadgets are driving us to distraction | the Daily Mail

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web page of doom

i just spent I don't know how long trying to get my pictures to show up on my webpage ....some did then they didn't....nothing was going the way I wanted it to...go figure.


I have the stuff up...it is not pretty but it is up. wooo

webpage.

This was frustrating. I was about to pull out my hair when I finally got it to work. It is nothing fancy to look at but at least it is up!

the KOHA list in some sort of way....

	Books and libraries /	Knowlton, Jack.	BK		Reserves
	Information desks in academic research libraries /		BK		Reserves
	Libraries through the ages /	Lerner, Frederick Andrew,	BK		Reserves
	Library :	Battles, Matthew.	BK		Reserves
	Library history research in America :		BK		Reserves
	The care of books;	Clark, John Willis,	BK		Reserves
	Readings in library history	Dunlap, Leslie W.	BK		Reserves
	The memory of mankind :	Hessel, Alfred,	BK		Reserves
	The library at night /	Manguel, Alberto.	BK		Reserves
	History of libraries and library education /	Ojo-Igbinoba, M. E.	BK		Reserves
	Research within the disciplines :		BK		Reserves
	Bibliographic control and information sources /	Behrens, S. J.	BK		Reserves
	Seeking meaning :	Kuhlthau, Carol Collier,	BK		Reserves
	Finding the right path :	Sutter, Lynne.	BK		Reserves
	Newspaper case studies :	Wagoner, Jane M.	BK		Reserves
	How to use the library :	Ferro, Frank,	BK		Reserves
	Academic libraries and research :		BK		Reserves
	The college student's research companion /	Quaratiello, Arlene Rodda.	BK		Reserves
	Library research models :	Mann, Thomas,	BK		Reserves

KOHA

Koha -- Virtual Shelves

There is the link to my KOHA shelves. you have to be logged in. I saw that some people had a nice little like bibliography but I currently don't know how to do that - I will see what I can figure out.

It is friday night and I finally got KOHA to finish working for me. I have been sitting quietly in the kitchen being taunted by the ice cream truck that must be circling the block. Seriously. that is just not cool.

Now back to reading and doing other things. I also have to get my webpage posted yet. sigh. So much to do and sooooooo very little time.

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"Trouble in Paradise"

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Affair with iPhone cools when handset breaks - Wireless World - MSNBC.com


Indeed. My boyfriend and I have very different opinions about the iPhone. While I think they are indeed neat and have a lot of what could be great technologies they are going to be annoying. He thinks they are the best thing that ever happened this side of apple pie.

My point goes to show that they are going to have problems. The first round of things always have bugs and I'd rather wait until (it is cheaper) some of those kinks are worked out. I know that whatever technology is probably always going to have problems. (Although according to Leonardo's Laptop, we shouldn't take tech problems lying down) I also don't want to have to scroll every three sentences to read a newspaper article. ARGH how frustrating. Maybe when I am rich and famous I will feel differently.

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SOCIAL SITES

history project - Google Search
BBC NEWS | Technology | Social sites battle for new users

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soooo tired

zoomclouds and I do not friends. we do not hold hands.

also known as I can't get the darn thing to work and it is frustrating me. sigh. It is due and I don't know what to do....

weeeeeeee

I am mildly stressed. This zoomclouds assignment is kind of killing me. Connotea is not doing what I want...then again what I want I am not sure if that is what I am supposed to be doing. I have the paper to write and I am in a wedding this weekend so I am trying to get as much done as possible before that. I can't seem to get ahead of the game.

On the other hand, I have a new job! Digital Project Coordinator! (fancy title) It is a joint project between Dickinson Archives and Millersville University Archives digitizing books/pamphlets etc. dealing with abolition. I am very excited. YAY!

Apparently I am not completely technologically impaired!

google co-op

Not exactly sure if I did this right....but here goes!

custom google search

a few more hours in the day?

There is a lot ot be done for school. Which is fine but I also know that I am in a wedding next week so I have to get things done or mostly done before that. I think I am still a little behind on the 2600.

I AM tired though. I think I need a day of just sleeping. It is absolutly beautiful outside today and I am working in my basement office without windows to the real world.

My work is somewhat tedious at the moment as well. I am currently working with open access online database type material called Drupal. (yes it is a very odd name) Which is very exciting and all te work that the past interns and other people have done is all getting online (finally) and is searchable and ooooh it will be wonderful when it is done. BUT we just started using drupal a few weeks ago and while I am not doing the technical side of it it is still very new. It is not hard to use though but we are still in "phase 1" (if you will) and keep running across different issues/conflicts that arise as we go so we have had to go back and change things. example. We were tagging names first name last name which doesn't work to well in the tag cloud or the tag list when everything is alphabetized by first name or title/rank. So we have had to go back through and reformat all the tags. Plus as we were working and tagging names from 19th century newspapers some people ended up being only say Mr. Smith. - then if we found out that Mr. Smith was really Fred Smith there would be two tags for the same person so we had to transport them all to one tag. As we go this will be last of a problem as more and more people will have "fixed" tags that the autocomplete should find. It is a lot of work but the end result will be worth it.

Hello all,

Here is my attempt at my Scopus assignment. I think I did it right but I was having some issues so here it goes.

ch ch ch chaaaaaaaaaanges

YouTube is branching out and trying new things. 



BBC NEWS | Technology | YouTube makes international move

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once again

It is not that I hate technology...we really have some sort of love/hate relationship. I have always enjoyed using it and it has always enjoyed doing something frustrating to me.

I will think about to the 8th grade science fair when I was tryhing to write my report/presentation and OOOOOOH the entire thing DIED right before it was due.

Moving forward several years to the present.

I was working on my hot topics presentation. Everything is good right? no not at all. I was trying to add my slides into ZOHO when oh it decided it didn't need to save most of what I added. THEN for some unknown reason - even though I added them at the end - they are now found throughout the entire presentation. I don't know how to fix this. I am half afraid to try something for fear of messing up one of my group members work. (YIKES)

On this note...I think it is time for me to step away from the computer for awhile before something else happens :oP

sigh

Still sick and (shockingly) still stressed.

I made a doctors appointment for this afternoon hopefully that will take care of the first part but later I think will only end in august.

Most of my stress revolves around 2600. 2000 has a fair amount mostly just because it is a lot of reading. BUT 2600 i fell that i am decades behind. I have the due dates but apparently I can't seem to wrap my head around it. ARGH. It is more of feeling of having no idea what you are doing yet trying to get it done at the same time that particuraly frustrates me. I read up on the Db but I still feel like I am going in blind. I am doing stuff but whether that is right or not is another story completely.

WHOA

color me exhausted.

This has been a long week. Orientation for the summer interns went well. It looks like we are going to get a lot done this summer and hopefully be able to have an official launch of the project by the end of the summer *YAY*

The bad part is I have been half sick all week and now I am just tired but I need to finish writing this paper. I really need a nap so we shall see how well this goes.

SOOOO much to do...

I think I have lost my marbles

no seriously they are gone.

It has been a long week (and it is only wednesday, although, I can't seem to remember what day it is this week) I have a new group of interns starting and we are getting them up to date on all the different types of projects they will be working on this summer. (AS THERE IS A LOT TO BE DONE)

Plus all of the school work that is due this week from the reviewed books to the endnote assignment.

I am going slightly out of mind. I feel sorry for everyone around me...yikes :oP

Rebooting the Web 2.0 age

BBC NEWS | Technology | Rebooting the Web 2.0 age





Here is an article about web 2.0 in action.  Collaboration and sharking is the key.  It is amazing to think about how far technology has come in just the last ten years - makes you wonder what will be happening ten years from now...

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Google and Digital Libraries

Google is working with several big name libraries to create online digital resources available to the public. Online/digital libraries will change the way that traditional libraries function.



Google Press Center: Press Release

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the googlemonster

Scenes Through the Eye of Google - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog


color me a luddite or a conspiracy theorist but I find that google is taking over the world. Now don't get me wrong I like some of their fancy technology. yay for gmail. On the other hand google earth and this form of google map with the street view...in so far as you can read peoples license plates kind of makes me feel like big brother is watching. :::insert horror film music here:::


Now I know that there already cameras everywhere especially in the UK (CCTV) but there is a difference in who is allowed to see what. Granted big brother could still be watching those but jo schmo stalker can't be zoomed in on my work.


Heh. If you are looking for me I'll be hiding under my desk :o)



I know this doesn't have anything to do with libraries other then the fact you can track them down and see what they building looks like without ever leaving the comforts of your computer chair. It just highlights how much technology has evolved and how quickly it is growing.

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Mo. Man Burns Books as Act of Protest

My Way News - Mo. Man Burns Books as Act of Protest

T
his man is lashing out that people don't read books per say people are online people watch tv everything is "full." It is unfortunate. I do read "real" newspapers but I tend to get a lot of my news online because I can access newspapers that wouldn't necessarily be available to me in ye old Carlisle. Books on the other hand call me a luddite, which is odd since I spend part of my time digitizing books. In the perfect world, I would sit curled up in a comfy chair with a book (mmm new book smell) and the thought of sitting at a computer to read an entire book is not really appealing to me. I think my contacts would dry out. On the other hand, as a historian I relish in it because I can access books, pamphlets, laws (aka great resource tools) that in the past I never would have been able to get my hands on. If it is digitized it is hopefully searchable also showing researchers new records that past researchers have missed because they just didn't know they were there. I still don't want to read a whole book online but if it means certain texts more researchers, students, teachers can access I am for that. At the end of the day...I am still going to need to build a library addition on to my house.

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Modern Technology

This had nothing to do with libraries but as more and more things in our daily life become computerized new complications can arise.

"Nissan warns U.S. cellphones can disable car keys"


http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2424455020070524?feedType=RSS&rpc=22

a new article

I am currently working on a project that deals with digitization and making things available to social studies teachers. This is an article I came across that I thought some of you might find interesting.



http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/pdf/digital_library_trends.pdf

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ARGH

My work computer is running extra slow today. Whelp that happens sometimes I suppose.

It has been a long day...week....I know I have a long weekend but I think i need like a week for my poor brain to just not function.

If you haven't figured it out I am not having the best week known to man. I am working at temporary job and my employment is kind of up in the air right now so I am trying to figure out what I am going to do if all of my plans fail? I am typically very optimistic but when it comes to the possibility of not having job color me nervous.

sigh.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Scorsese to rescue lost film gems

BBC NEWS Entertainment Scorsese to rescue lost film gems

I have a friend who is in England studying to be a film archivist. I saw this and thought of him. During my work on my applied history masters I took an intro to archives class...I also had an internship in a college archives.

Film archiving whether they are "stills" or "motion pictures" can be complex but it is important to preserve. As we become an increasingly visual culture the important of film preservation becomes more important.

a work in progress

First off - title of "never ending journey..." refering to my life long education which my entire family finds hilarious. Well my boyfriend finds the title hilarious. He keeps singing "never ending journey..." to the tune of never ending story. He feels that we should film footage of my collie flying through the air to go along with his singing.

ANYWAY.

I've finally gotten my textbook for 2600 and have the first two chapters read. I've downloaded (I think) all of the extensions we need for firefox. I don't know how to use them but I have them downloaded and I am working my way through Kuhn. I have always liked science but I don't know if it's my brain being rusty (which is possible) or the book but we aren't meeting at the same level.

Reading some of the comments on the discussion board, I feel like I am about 8 weeks behind some of my classmates. Like it's have way through the semester and I am just starting class. It is causing some minor stress. heh. I continue to tell myself that once I get in the swing of things that I won't feel so behind. We shall see how that works out for me.

I came across this website http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0621.asp?bhcp=1 with an article, "A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?", written by Bryan Alexander who is the "Director for Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE). "

The article works to explain web 2.0. I know this is a topic that we will be working with this semester. The article also discusses del.icio.us.

A part that I found interesting is comparing the web to books but all of these new forms of social type networking like blogs, podcasts, wikis, etc. He likened the "microcontent" to posts and a streaming conversation. He gets into using this type of content in education. Another topic he spends some time with is copyright. People are posting all of this information to the web in an open manner that people (I imagine especially younger students) to break copyright laws.

I would have liked to see more on using web 2.0 in different levels of education.

I am not sure if this is exactly what I am supposed to be doing but I figured I would give it a go and see how it works. If anyone has any feedback let me know if you can lead me in the right direction or feedback in general!

off to a new start

I am off to a new start in a new field. I don't know exactly how that is going to go. I haven't been out of school for that long (although to me it seems like years as I am a perpetual student) I am moving away from history which has been my focus for the past 6+ years of my life.

I am excited and a little scared at the same time. Leaving your comfort zone is never easy.