Libraries in Asia and Asian Learners Here

If your library has significant numbers of Asian born students, I urge to check out this class cast from LIS Radio.
In this program Mr. John Hickok, Coordinator of Library Instruction at Cal State Fullerton describes his sabbatical year travelling to 14 countries in Asia to discover how “how to use the library” classes were done [...]

Iraq for Sale: Tell your friends

The other day my wife and I watched the movie Iraq for Sale. This film focuses on the hundreds of thousands of private contractors in Iraq, the problems they face, the problems they cause and the corporations who profit from them and in many cases, exploit them.
The film draws on interviews with truck drivers, [...]

New FGI Discussions: June 25, 2007

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Journals - Difference between e and print

This isn’t meant to be a “print good” / “electronic bad” sort of post, but I wanted to jot down how different my experience is between actually handling a physical professional journal vs getting that same journal in electronic format.
Case in point - American Libraries. As an ALA member I get my own copy sent [...]

This possible world elates some people, but worries me:

As a balance, consider reading Caleb Carr’s Killing Time which posits a somewhat similar future, but with different results.
Thanks to Stephen Abram for highlighting this thought provoking video.

Exploring Parallel Universes

Stuart and Glory (not Gloria) Jaffe are husband and wife podcasters who publish the Eclectic Review. If you have the slightest interest in science, science fiction, movies, writing, etc, I think they’re well worth a listen.
For the last three episodes, they’ve been discussing Parallel Universes, among other things. I’ve only heard the first two bits, [...]

New FGI Discussions: June 18, 2007

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Aussie explains Facebook, Copyright Issues

Australian PR Blogger Lee Hopkins has a long but entertaining and thoughtful post over at his blog Better Communications Results.
It’s a wide-ranging post reflecting on the differences between Facebook and MySpace, the multitude of networks that beg for one’s attention and whether it can avoid MySpace’s fate of getting drowned in spam. I’ve wondered about [...]

Open WorldCat Lists - What are implications?

I’m likely the last to know, but in case I’m not:
Open WorldCat lets registered users build lists that can be shared with anyone on the Internet. The lists can have notes. See an example I created at http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/dcornwall/lists/204 on tidal power in Alaska.
This looks like a great way to build bibliographies intended to be shared [...]

Tour Heli landing in Downtown Skagway

Tour Heli landing in Downtown Skagway
Originally uploaded by AlaskanLibrarian
I wanted to share what I thought was a lucky shot. I got this photo thanks to Dyea Dave’s Skagway Tour.
Plus, this photo shows the power of image stabilization, without which this caffeine junkie couldn’t take a single good photo owing to his [...]