2cultures.net(.au) » library of congress http://www.2cultures.net Humanities + Computing Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:16:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Episode 62 – PDA? In the Library? http://digitalcampus.tv/2010/11/10/episode-62-pda-in-the-library/ http://digitalcampus.tv/2010/11/10/episode-62-pda-in-the-library/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:41:59 +0000 Mills Kelly http://digitalcampus.tv/?p=349 In this episode of Digital Campus, Dan, Amanda, and Mills (Tom was unavailable), were joined by Jennifer Howard from The Chronicle of Higher Education to discuss the latest trends in digital media, higher education, and in particular, libraries. We began by reprising a story from so long ago we could hardly remember it–college professors assigning their students to write or edit Wikipedia entries. Then we moved on to much more important topics, like Robert Darnton’s recent proposal to create a “national digital library.” We also discussed a rising trend among librarians–enthusiasm for “patron driven acquisition,” also know as PDA. Please don’t confuse this PDA with prior uses of that acronym! Amanda then chimed in with her take on Amazon’s plan to offer limited lendability for e-books. Regular listeners won’t be surprised by her take on this proposal. And we wrapped with Dan introducing us all to Omeka.net, CHNM’s newest way of making it easy for web users to create and manage archival and museum collections online.

Other links mentioned in the podcast:
Wikipedia’s Public Policy Initiative
National Digital Library proposal in The Chronicle
National Digital Library proposal in Libraryjournal.com
Patron driven acquisition in The Chronicle
Amazon.com’s ebook lending program

Running time: 52:13
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]]> http://digitalcampus.tv/2010/11/10/episode-62-pda-in-the-library/feed/ 0 Episode 20 – Open to Change http://digitalcampus.tv/2008/01/30/episode-20-open-to-change/ http://digitalcampus.tv/2008/01/30/episode-20-open-to-change/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:43:06 +0000 admin http://digitalcampus.tv/2008/01/30/episode-20-open-to-change/ Are open educational resources such as iTunes U and thought-provoking dot-coms such as BigThink.com a distraction from the mission of professors and universities, or the wave of the future? Tom, Mills, and Dan debate the merits of “open access” intellectual content in the feature story. We also follow up on Dan’s experience with buying a book from PublicDomainReprints.org, compare the MacBook Air with the small, cheap laptops discussed on the last episode of Digital Campus, and discuss the launch of Flickr Commons. Our picks of the week point to three great ways to use RSS feeds more effectively.

Links mentioned on podcast:
PublicDomainReprints.org
Flickr Commons
MacBook Air
iTunes U
BigThink.com
Berkeley’s YouTube Channel
Google Reader Sharing
ReadBurner
Yahoo Pipes
FeedJournal

Runtime: 51:15
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