O comité IFLA da “Liberdade de Expressão e Liberdade de Acesso à Informação” organiza a sessão plenária do dia 21 de Agosto, das 12:45 às 13:45, focando a polémica dos “cartoons do profeta’. Do convite: Maybe there are others who find it difficult to see the value of free expression if what is said causes unease and distress.… Read More »
Não pude ir este ano (em cima de exames ) mas a blogosfera permite manter-me a par dos acontecimentos: Eric Lease Morgan’s Top Tech Trends for ALA 2006; “Sum” pontificationshttp://litablog.org/2006/06/18/eric-lease-morgans-top-tech-trends-for-ala-2006-sum-pontifications/ é um posto que apareceu no blog da LITA a que tenho de dar mais atenção assim que passe a época. Os tópicos são: The increasing availability of… Read More »
How often do you hear of librarians who never venture out of the library to meet with users? How many librarians cling to cataloguing and classification but pay little attention to any in-depth indexing, content analysis or abstracting services? How much so called reference work is glorified signposting? Those librarians who undertake the major tasks well are invaluable.… Read More »
[…]broad overview of those imperatives which should inform any consideration of Library and Information Studies (LIS) education. When we design, deliver or even just talk about curriculum, what we mean is a complex integration of the fostering of knowledge, understanding and skills; teaching and learning styles and delivery mechanisms. In addition, at any one time, a curriculum does… Read More »
E o vencedor é: Ann Arbor District Library Web
Passei os últimos 20 minutos a semear links para blogs de bibliotecas portuguesas no Wiki http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/ criado por Amanda (http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/) Etches Johnson… pergunto-me o efeito que terá nos logs de utilização das insituições…
I think there are two skills that you really, really need in a flat world. One is the ability to learn how to learn – that’s really, really important because it’s really not what you know, it’s how you learn, because what you know today will be out of date tomorrow. Thomas Friedman Entrevista no FT
A página de disciplina é uma lente squidoo, todos os alunos têm de manter blog, e obviamente o professor é Michael (http://www.tametheweb.com) Stephens
Nunca ouvi falar disto como causa célebre de obsolescência de material digital, mas é interessantíssimo porque me lembro do projecto a ser feito. Parece que só em 2002 a BBC encontrou um computador ACORN funcional para reler os “two virtually indestructible interactive video discs” em que os resultados foram gravados em meados da década de 1980. E para… Read More »
Exemplos do passado, concretamente num dos grandes artigos sobre gestão jamais escritos: The railroads did not stop growing because the need for passenger and freight transportation declined. That grew. The railroads are in trouble today not because the need was filled by others (cars, trucks, airplanes, even telephones) but because it was not filled by the railroads themselves.… Read More »