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Yearly Archives: 2012
Effectively Learning How To Code: Tips and Resources
*** This post has been originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Dec. 10, 2012. *** Librarians’ strong interest in programming is not surprising considering that programming skills are crucial and often essential to making today’s library systems and services more … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Continuing Education, Librarianship, presentation
Tagged codeyear, coding, libcodeyear, programming
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Enabling the Research ‘Flow’ and Serendipity in Today’s Digital Library Environment
*** This post has been also published on ACRLog on Oct. 29, 2012. *** Today’s library users do not carry pencils and notebooks to a library. They do no longer want to be isolated to concentrate on deep study or … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Library, Research, Technology, Usability
Tagged bookstacks, browsing, digital collection, digital library, discovery, physical colleciton, serendipity, stacks
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More APIs: writing your own code (2)
*** This blog post has been originally published in ACRL TechConnect 0n October 9, 2012. *** My previous post “The simpest AJAX: writing your own code (1)” discussed a few Javascript and JQuery examples that make the use of the Flickr … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Web
Tagged ajax, api, code year, codeyear, coding, jquery, libcodeyear, pinboard, programming, pubmed, reddit, yahoo pipes
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A bad business model or a savvy market strategy? Thinking like a vendor
I want to talk about an e-book platform called Inkling whose web version is not cross-browser compatible. But what I am really interested to talk about is neither an ebook platform nor its cross-browser support. I am interested in thinking … Continue reading
Posted in e-Book, Library, Technology, Web
Tagged cross-browser support, ebook platform, inking, product, resource, vendor
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The simplest AJAX: writing your own code (1)
*** This blog post has been originally published in ACRL TechConnect 0n September 12, 2012. *** It has been 8 months since the Code Year project started. Back in January, I have provided some tips. Now I want to check in … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Web
Tagged ajax, code year, codeyear, coding, javascript, jquery, js, libcodeyear, programing, scripting
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How Not To Kill Your Own Creativity
Yesterday, I ran into this news about Darien Library. They were doing a campaign about “Donate Blood and Your Library Fines Waived.” Immediately I thought ‘What a wonderful idea!’ Library fines can be a hassle. Lots of times people accumulate … Continue reading
Why Gamify and What to Avoid in Library Gamification
*** This blog post has been originally published in ACRL TechConnect 0n August 7, 2012. *** In my last post, “Applying Game Dynamics to Library Services,†I presented several ideas for applying game dynamics to library services. After the post, I … Continue reading
Applying Game Dynamics to Library Services
*** This blog post has been originally published in ACRL TechConnect 0n July 9, 2012. *** There is a lot of talk about games at libraries. Public libraries in particular have been active in incorporating games in their programs and collections. Even for … Continue reading
Posted in Library, Technology
Tagged game, game dynamics, game layer, Jane McGonigal, library services, seth priebatsch, TED
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