What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
Image courtesy of James B. Hunt Library, North Carolina State University We often hear that libraries are losing relevance in the Internet Age; we have users and funders who say, “why do we need libraries – can’t you find most Continue reading Libraries Matter
(and that can be a good thing) Some unusual libraries I found while wandering around the internet: (Via: Gizmodo) Via: The Little Free Library
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (photo: Argenberg) If you are a student, you probably have a feeling that textbooks are enormously expensive. It turns out that over the past few decades the cost of textbooks have been rising at a rate much Continue reading Finding Inspriration from the Great Library of Alexandria
Massive open online courses or, MOOCs, are a very hot topic in education these days. The general idea behind a MOOC is that professors teaching a class can put course materials, including instructional content like videos of lectures, online in Continue reading Putting the library into a MOOC
From Wikipedia Let me just preface this post by saying: I am not a librarian — at least not in any technical sense. I never went to school… never even thought about going to school… actually, before I started working Continue reading Folk Songs and Light Bulbs
“House of Knowledge” by Jaume Plensa If the internet or blogs were old enough to have what one might call a tradition, we can be sure that it would be predominantly based in retelling what is new, what is breaking Continue reading The Wizard and the Great Zeitgeist
A mobile division of the New York Public Library Getty Images / Universal Images Group/via Image Quest I’ve always been fascinated by the seemingly endless repetition of phenomena that after my eye has been drawn to just one occurrence, no Continue reading Rhyming Libraries and Loops
Langsdale On the Go! kiosk It is difficult to disassociate libraries with books. Drive down any main street in the US and chances are you will run across a public library marked with the logo of a silhouetted human-type-figure sitting Continue reading Graven and digital tablets: new technology at Langsdale
Wikipedia and other websites are conducting a blackout today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Find out more about these two anti-piracy bills being considered by Congress. More information about these bills Continue reading Blackout Today – SOPA, PIPA