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blog on the "intersection of libraries, technology, and the community"

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'a community of hundreds of leading universities, colleges, museums, and research centers. The NMC stimulates and furthers the exploration and use of new media and technologies for learning and creative expression. All content Creative Commons. '

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Being Fluent with Information Technology sets the standard for what everyone should know about IT in order to use it effectively now and in the future. It explores three kinds of knowledge intellectual capabilities, foundational concepts, and skills that are essential for fluency with IT. The book presents detailed descriptions and examples of current skills and timeless concepts and capabilities, which will be useful to individuals who use IT and to the instructors who teach them.
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'Nearly half of the survey’s 500 respondents — including more than two-thirds of public universities — have pared down their IT budgets in 2009. That figure represents a reversal from 2008, when about half reported budget increases. Only 21 percent put more money into information technology this year. For the first time this decade, financing information technology registered as one of the most pressing concerns among campus technologists.'

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'Driven by the need to reduce costs and to provide dependable data delivery and protection, the cloud storage pay-as-you-go service model offers information technology a new way to avoid building out expensive and complex storage infrastructures. Although it is not applicable to every storage need, cloud storage offers a way to move the complexity and management burden to a center of competence -- either inside or outside an IT organization's data center. Multiple service models are available, from simple infrastructure to full-blown archiving systems.'

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'This ECAR research bulletin describes strategies used by the IT organizations at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Dickinson University to develop a plan for improving the culture of service within those organizations. Inspired by Mark Sheehan’s 2007 ECAR study, Service on the Front Line: The IT Help Desk in Higher Education, the authors explore how the broader group of IT and library staff members understood the service culture of their organizations. The strategies for the early part of the plan included a survey of staff to establish a baseline understanding of staff perceptions as well as a literature search to find good models in higher education and in other service industries.'

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'One of the primary goals of the History Engine project has been to design a research and writing exercise modest enough in its analytical scope and its length that it allows students to "do history" long before a senior seminar or capstone course. (Another important goal, discussed below, is to capture this research to amass a large history archive.) The History Engine is an online archive consisting of thousands of "episodes" written and contributed by undergraduates.'

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'As noted earlier, the point of this research project was to learn about the ways in which forms of institutional support can be better aligned with the evolving curriculum at Carleton. Findings critical for designing a more effective curricular support model fall into three categories relating to elements of institutional culture, the process of student acculturation as it relates to seeking curricular support, and the importance of facilitating work across organizational boundaries. The following list of findings include the most significant ones in terms of improving institutional forms of curricular support (a full list is available in our research report). '

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'The professor who taught "Introduction to Computer Programming" my freshman year of college told us that it was easier to teach a (doctor, lawyer, architect) to program a computer than it was to teach a computer programmer to be a (doctor, lawyer, architect). I was never really sure whether he meant that it was easy to teach people programming, or whether he meant that it was impossible to teach programmers anything else. Many years later, I met the doctor he collaborated a lot with, and decided that my professor's conclusion was based on an unrepresentative data set, because the doctor had the personality of a programmer who accidentally went to medical school.'

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"We are part think tank, analyzing and anticipating important shifts in the rapidly changing context that leaders must navigate. We work to understand emerging trends and to identify promising new approaches and innovations in practice. "

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'Suddenly, it is possible to imagine a new model of education using online resources to serve more students, more cheaply than ever before.'

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"165 learning professionals have now shared their Top 10 Tools and here is a snapshot of the current Top 10 as at 8 August 2009. "

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daily pick of an item of "e-learning interest selected by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies"

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Blog entry on reasons people give for not doing things

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'Usually, historians are hard-pressed to find any original source material about those who have shaped our civilization. In the Internet era, scholars of science might have too much. Never have so many people generated so much digital data or been able to lose so much of it so quickly, experts at the San Diego Supercomputer Center say. Computer users world-wide generate enough digital data every 15 minutes to fill the U.S. Library of Congress.'

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'There is a temptation in library discussions to focus on discovery and end-user issues when thinking of bibliographic data. However, bibliographic data is increasingly important to efficient library operations more generally. Think of the blurring of circulation and resource sharing in consortial arrangements, the issues of managing and tracking print collections in the context of the mass digitization and off site storage initiatives, connections between external discovery environments and library systems, resolution and the management of knowledge bases, and so on. Systemwide data synchronization and data integrity issues are becoming more central. Increasingly we recognize that efficient management of resources imposes data needs.'

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digitization data data_management technology libraries change

'It was as if we were talking about the next frontier – even though digital reference is hardly new. But digital reference is emerging as the library service – and technology – that best moves us into the next Web revolution.'

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'The web is replete with projects to “digitize legacy content”—patent applications, books, photographs, everything. While photographs might survive well as JPEGs or TIFFs (disregarding accessibility issues for a moment), the bulk of this legacy content requires semantic markup for computers to understand it. A sheet of paper provides complete authorial freedom, but that freedom can translate poorly to the coarse semantics of HTML. The digitization craze—that’s what it is—crashes headlong into HTML semantics. '

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'A lot of people — often for quite understandable reasons — feel very uncomfortable about the ramifications of moving computing to the cloud, and therefore they try and confine it within familiar boundaries where they feel more comfortable. They persuade themselves that, so long as they include some of the recognized characteristics of cloud computing, such as a virtualized infrastructure and some notion of metered usage, then they’ve still captured its essence, without having to stray beyond the confines of their existing enterprise infrastructure.'

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'a resource for Augmented Reality information. You will find an introduction to augmented reality and links to some augmented reality work on the web.'

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