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Workflow to Get an Image in the Preview
How to? Hi, everyone. One of your classmates recently posted this in a comment: I was working to get a picture attached to my most recent post. And while I did figure out how to get a picture to...
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Breaking News: Dan Cohen Named Founding Executive Director of the Digital...
Dan Cohen Named Founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America March 5, 2013 Cambridge, MA—The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced today the appointment of Dan...
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More DPLA: With New Leader, Digital Public Library of America Prepares for...
It’s great when an event like this coincides with our class-related studies. Couldn’t have planned it better myself! More on DPLA, from the Chronicle of Higher Ed: Mr. Cohen will move to Boston this...
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Week 7: Spotlight on HathiTrust
Welcome to week 7, everyone. Many of you are still working to finish Assignment 1; the dropbox for this assignment is open until tonight at 11:59 PM, so take the day to continue your work! Please see...
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Digitization “Mistakes” as Found Art
Have we had a chance to take a look at this tumblr, devoted to mistakes, glitches and the unexpected in Google Books scans? This is one of my very favorite websites of the moment, and I hope you will...
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Omeka News: Support for LCSH as Controlled Vocabulary
Here’s some updates from the Omeka front. Omeka has just released a new plug-in, “Library of Congress Suggest,” that adds an interesting bit of functionality to your metadata. Specifically, it:”…adds...
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More PM Resources: PMI, the Project Managment Institute
Project Management Institute Are you intrigued about PM as a topic and want to learn more? Would you like to join a professional organization dedicated to good PM principles and practices, or get...
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Check Learn!
Everyone – Be sure to check in with Learn@UW to a. see your grades that have been posted for Assignment 1 and discussion leadership (if applicable) and b. to read an exciting announcement.
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More PM: Gantt Charts
An example of a Gantt chart If you’ve ever been involved in a project in which PM principles are being employed, you will most likely have seen a Gantt chart. What are these? These are key tools in...
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Module 9: Usability and User Experience
Peter Morville’s Usability Honeycomb Welcome to our mid-week transition from project management into UX – user experience, and usability! I am so thrilled to be presenting this content to you; I have...
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Today at noon! For local and distance
“REMINDER: Brown bag discussion with Joe Janes on April 5 Brown bag discussion with Joe Janes on April 5 Please join us for a brown bag discussion on the future of libraries and library education with...
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04/09/13 Adobe Connect URL for Joe Janes’ brown bag, 4/5
04/09/13 Adobe Connect URL for Joe Janes’ brown bag, 4/5. “For those of you unable to attend Joe Jane’s brown bag discussion last week, the session was recorded, and you can view it at the link below....
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Local and Distance – Holz series: 4/16, Ross Tredinnick, “Technology and Data...
Join us at noon on Tuesday April 16 in the SLIS Commons (fourth floor, Helen C. White Hall) to hear Ross Tredinnick of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery speak about “Technology and Data of the...
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Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2013: Digital Libraries at the...
http://www.jcdl2013.org/ The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social...
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Deadline Extended: Assignment 2
Folks - In order to give you the most possible time to successfully craft your Assignment 2 final projects, the deadline has been extended from April 24th to 11:59 PM on May 1st. I hope you will find...
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DPLA Appoints Four New Board Members, Announces New Committees
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dplaalpha/2013/04/17/digital-public-library-of-america-appoints-four-new-board-members-announces-new-committees/ Cambridge, MA – The Digital Public Library of America...
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News: Librarians Respond to DPLA Launch
First impressions of the new DPLA portal have been almost uniformly positive, though many have suggested avenues for further enhancements and refinements. via Librarians Respond to DPLA Launch.
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Cat Phan interview now available!
Folks, please check iTunesU (accessed via Learn@UW) for a great 20-minute interview with DCC Metadata Librarian and SLIS grad Cat Phan. She has a lot of wisdom to close us out of our great semester. I...
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Today at noon! For local and distance
“REMINDER: Brown bag discussion with Joe Janes on April 5 Brown bag discussion with Joe Janes on April 5 Please join us for a brown bag discussion on the future of libraries and library education with...
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