Allison Kipta's Public Library

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genealogy

The County Atlas Digital Project is a searchable database of the property owners' names which appear on the township maps in the county atlases. Township maps, portraits and properties have been scanned, with links from the property owners' names in the database.

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canada history maps

A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness.
Links added or revised within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}. Please use this form or e-mail to add entries, provide corrections, or make comments on its utility. Those who have recently submitted new and revised entries are acknowledged. Guidelines for the inclusion of sites on this list are available.

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history genealogy

With its roots in Ancient Egyptian music, Coptic Christian chant is one of the oldest liturgical genres still performed today. Drawing on the Ragheb Moftah Collection, this presentation explores some of the earliest music transcriptions by explorers, missionaries, and scholars in Egypt, highlighting Moftah's efforts to notate, record, and preserve all Coptic Orthodox hymns. Learn more about current scholarship and what is happening in the Coptic community today.

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music history library-of-congress

Access to free and expansive media platforms and distribution channels has democratized influence and shifted the power of authority from those who previously controlled the media to those who disseminate it. Attention has become a precious commodity as it becomes increasingly elusive and diverted. The competition for attention is only intensifying as those who benefit from your awareness venture to attract it when and where it is focused. According to a 2007 story in the New York Times, market research firm Yankelovich estimated that a person living in an average city 30 years ago saw up to 2,000 ad messages a day, compared with up to 5,000 today. The numbers vary depending on the source, with estimates soaring as high as 9,000 estimated impressions daily. I can only surmise that with the proliferation of socialized media, that we are also directly and indirectly exposed to messages and brands as a result of conversations transpiring within our social graph.

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social-media solis.brian

I believe if Social Media warranted a mantra, it would look something like this, “Always pay it forward and never forget to pay it back…it’s how you got here and it defines where you’re going.” This is the credo I live by and something that has only been reinforced as part of my daily regiment, online and in the real world.

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social-media solis.brian

The Shockwave Physics Studios consists of a collection of pages which feature interactive Shockwave files that simulate a physical situation. Users can manipulate a variable and observe the outcome of the change on the physical situation. Many of the animations are accompanied by an activity sheet which provides directions and procedural information for users. Such activity sheets were designed so that the animation could become a classroom-ready activity for use by students and teachers.

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The IFLA E-learning SIG invites papers for its Open Session on the topic Understanding the value of ePortfolios to reflect on and present learning and professional development. The program will relate to the main theme of the conference, Open access to knowledge: promoting sustainable progress, at the level of the individual LIS professional or paraprofessional, encompassing the communication of self-knowledge and career progress.

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call-for-papers

New learning for a new society, February 2010 - call for papers open!

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call-for-papers

On October 15, 2009, Dr. Rhonda Jones, Program Director for Human Resources Management in the Graduate School, presented "Talent Management in the New Economy: Applying Lessons Learned From Knowledge Workers" during a brown bag interactive lunch at the new Academic Center in Largo.

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umuc

"In the tech circles in which i run, the term "walled gardens" evokes a scrunching of the face if not outright spitting. I shouldn't be surprised by this because these are the same folks who preach the transparent society as the panacea. But i couldn't help myself from thinking that this immediate revulsion is obfuscating the issue... so i thought i'd muse a bit on walled gardens. Walled gardens are inevitably built out of corporate greed - a company wants to lock in your data so that you can't move between services and leave them in the dust. They make money off of your eyeballs. They make money off of your data. (In return, they often provide you with "free" services.) You put blood, sweat, and tears - or at least a little bit of time - into providing them with valuable data and you can't get it out when you decide you've had enough. If this were the full story, _of course_ walled gardens look foul to the core."

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boyd.danah social-media lms

"Network analysts often speak about (un)directed graphs. In essence, this refers to whether or not someone you know knows you. If reciprocity is required by the system, it's an undirected graph. The vast majority of online social networking tools assume that users are modeling friendship and thus if you're friends with someone, they better damn well be friends with you. As such, they use undirected graphs and you are required to confirm that they are indeed your friend."

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boyd.danah social-media social-networking

"Social network sites (SNSes) like MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo are ubiquitous and today’s youth are spending a great deal of time using these sites to access public life. How is public life shaped by social technology? How are the properties of mediated publics, like social network sites, different from unmediated publics? This article seeks to explore the social dynamics of mediated public life in order to help educators understand their role in socialising today’s youth."

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boyd.danah social-media

"I would like to offer my working definition of "social network sites" per confusion over my request for a timeline. A "social network site" is a category of websites with profiles, semi-persistent public commentary on the profile, and a traversable publicly articulated social network displayed in relation to the profile."

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boyd.danah social-media

"Citation: boyd, danah. 2009. "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?" Microsoft Research Tech Fest, Redmond, Washington, February 26. My talk today is about social media. I'm going to begin by dissecting this silly term and then we'll get down and dirty with how social media is being used."

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boyd.danah social-media

"Studies like this one by Pear Analytics drive me batty. They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble; 37.55% are conversational; 8.7% have "pass along value"; 5.85% are self-promotional; 3.75% are spam; and ::gasp:: only 3.6% are news. I challenge each and every one of you to record every utterance that comes out of your mouth (and that of everyone you interact with) for an entire day. And then record every facial expression and gesture. You will most likely find what communications scholars found long ago - people are social creatures and a whole lot of what they express is phatic communication. (Phatic expressions do social work rather than conveying information... think "Hi" or "Thank you".) Now, turn all of your utterances over to an analytics firm so that they can code everything that you've said. I think that you'll be lucky if only 40% of what you say constitutes "pointless babble" to a third party ear."

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boyd.danah twitter

"This year's symposium will feature a morning keynote address by Dr. Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, a faculty lunch panel discussion, "Using Social Media to Engage Students," and a poster session at the end of the day. During the day we will also feature over 20 faculty-led breakout sessions showcasing innovative uses of technology to enhance teaching learning and research, a hands-on demonstration room, a Digital Media Commons showcase room, and a Educational Gaming Commons showcase room."

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technology teaching learning conference

"The half-life of knowledge is the amount of time that has to elapse before half of the knowledge in a particular area is superseded or shown to be untrue. The concept is attributed to Fritz Machlup (1962). For example, Donald Hebb estimated the half-life of psychology to be five years."

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knowledge knowledge-management

"How much time should you spend on social media? In some ways, the answer is: “how long is a piece of string?” And yet, you can set up some simple guidelines. They might be a bit different than you think. By the way, I’m writing these from a business perspective, but remember that I think of religion and nonprofits and all kinds of other applications as business-related, too."

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social-media brogan.chris

"Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who is curating a new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris, talks to SPIEGEL about the place lists hold in the history of culture, the ways we try to avoid thinking about death and why Google is dangerous for young people."

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culture lists