Hello all – Just remembered I took a video for our class at the National Museum of Scotland. In one of the large galleries, the museum has an installation of monitors and surface table type screens. The collection – in the form of digital entries – cascades down the “waterfall” and into the surface screens. […]
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Hello all – If you have time, you may want to give this AI fueled site under the google banner a try. Notebook LM “Podcast” Audio https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-audio-overviews/ Today, we’re introducing Audio Overview, a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one click, two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” […]
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Hey all – Please share your favorite sites for grabbing Creative Commons or free-use images for your blogs and Inspiration Reports. I just came across this: https://www.pexels.com/royalty-free-images/ Please share your faves as a comment below. Image: East Grand Traverse Bay
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From Marie Østergård on Facebook: 54 kids, 9-12 year old and 4 adults on a 14 hour all night Readathon at Dokk1. They rocked the place! We didn’t get any sleep but got to see the library taken over by intense playing, reading, joking, running and much more. Who knew Dokk1 had so many places to […]
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Greetings! Now we turn our attention to new models of service, new ways of doing things. This module includes materials from Stacie Ledden and Anythink Libraries.
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This just in from a former #hyperlib student via email: I just wanted to say hello and let you know that I’ve been thinking about you and our class! I was doing my MLIS homework one day and came across a free California State Parks pass that was able to be checked out from the […]
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Hello! I have read all the blog posts in my Feedly! Thanks for all of your insights and candor in your reflections! I commented on everyone’s work. If you did not get a comment from me, please comment below. Looking forward to more of your writing! Note – I approved a lot of comments in […]
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Caught this on Gwinnett County’s Instagram last year: So cool! From the creator of the program: All the pieces were either cut on draft board on our Glowforge, 3D printed, or were just basic paper shapes (like cut-out cards and circles as tokens). I can’t find the website I used to get some of the […]
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Here is a job description from CityLibraries Townsville in Queensland, Australia from 2019. My colleague Warren Cheetham is Coordinator, Planning and Business Development there. I visited Warren while in Australia in 2018. Take look at this bit and then grab the PDF to see the full job. Note the nuances of Australian library work. Townsville.Position Information_Digital […]
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Hello all – Getting over some jet lag here! I wanted to share that I did a talk at Edinburgh Napier University last week. It was for the Applied Informatics group in the School of Computing, Engineering, & the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University’s Merchiston campus. It was a super fun presentation and discussion. […]