Talking book patrons curious about the digital transition should watch this video produced by State Library of Kansas. It’s a cute head on comparison between the cassette player and the digital player.
If you or someone you know would like to apply for the Talking Book program, contact your local library or go to this webpage http://www.loc.gov/nls/find.html to search by county or state.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Week 9 [Part 1]: Podcasting
I listen to two podcast for library related stuff.
The ABC Book Reviews: A Beth and Cari Production. I love listening to these two ladies talk about books! Here are just some of the topics they have covered in recent podcasts- the Tournament of Books for 2010, Best Books of 2009, Best First Novels, News for September and "What book have you faked reading?"
Tisch Talks: The Tisch Library Podcast Series . This podcast series was featured 2009 list of 100 Terrific Websites to Celebrate National Library Week list.
http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/100-terrific-websites-to-celebrate-national-library-week/
My all time favorite podcast is Gamers with Jobs Conference Call. They review lots of computer/video games and still manage not to be fan boys. If you don’t know what a fan boy is than this podcast is probably not for you.
The ABC Book Reviews: A Beth and Cari Production. I love listening to these two ladies talk about books! Here are just some of the topics they have covered in recent podcasts- the Tournament of Books for 2010, Best Books of 2009, Best First Novels, News for September and "What book have you faked reading?"
Tisch Talks: The Tisch Library Podcast Series . This podcast series was featured 2009 list of 100 Terrific Websites to Celebrate National Library Week list.
http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/100-terrific-websites-to-celebrate-national-library-week/
My all time favorite podcast is Gamers with Jobs Conference Call. They review lots of computer/video games and still manage not to be fan boys. If you don’t know what a fan boy is than this podcast is probably not for you.
Week 8 - Google and Other Search Engines
This blog post in reply to the assignment and questions for KCPL’s 24things class.
Overall I’m a Google kind of gal. Using the blind search, I searched for “dragon age”. My first selection was Google, for this search Yahoo came in a close second. Next I searched for “twitters 10 billion tweets”. Google was the clear winner. Third I searched for “good Friday 2010” I was surprised. Bing was the clear winner for that search.
The video seemed a little short on Google tips and really didn’t find out anything new about Google. For yahoo, I leaned you could send an email from the search box and for Bing I learned how to quickly find a company’s customer service phone number.
Post for the Google features part of the assignment- I use Google news search and Google news alters.
Post for the Wolfram-Alpha- The things it covers it does really well, I typed in geese and got very little information
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=geese
Overall I’m a Google kind of gal. Using the blind search, I searched for “dragon age”. My first selection was Google, for this search Yahoo came in a close second. Next I searched for “twitters 10 billion tweets”. Google was the clear winner. Third I searched for “good Friday 2010” I was surprised. Bing was the clear winner for that search.
The video seemed a little short on Google tips and really didn’t find out anything new about Google. For yahoo, I leaned you could send an email from the search box and for Bing I learned how to quickly find a company’s customer service phone number.
Post for the Google features part of the assignment- I use Google news search and Google news alters.
Post for the Wolfram-Alpha- The things it covers it does really well, I typed in geese and got very little information
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=geese
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Benetech, WGBH National Center for Accessible Media and U.S. Fund for DAISY Receive $5 Million to Transform Production of Accessible Images
Benetech, WGBH National Center for Accessible Media and U.S. Fund for DAISY Receive $5 Million to Transform Production of Accessible Images
Quotes for the artcle -
Too often, students using text-based accessible instructional materials (AIM) are presented with only the words "image" or "graphic" when the devices they use to read digital text encounter illustrations, equations, graphics, photos or diagrams in textbooks.
The new Digital Image and Graphic Resources for Accessible Materials Center (DIAGRAM) will develop tools and best practices that will make it easier and more cost-effective to create and use accessible images across a range of educational content.
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Quotes for the artcle -
Too often, students using text-based accessible instructional materials (AIM) are presented with only the words "image" or "graphic" when the devices they use to read digital text encounter illustrations, equations, graphics, photos or diagrams in textbooks.
The new Digital Image and Graphic Resources for Accessible Materials Center (DIAGRAM) will develop tools and best practices that will make it easier and more cost-effective to create and use accessible images across a range of educational content.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Is Any One Reading This Blog?
I'm having way too much fun updating and maintaining my blog. I've decided to keep it going after the 24things class ends. I wanted to find out who else beside me is viewing the blog. After a little research I chose the free service SiteMeter. To find out more about this website tracking tool click here or click little logo at the bottom of the page.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Postal Service seeks 5-day delivery
Read the USA today article here:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-03-01-postalservice_N.htm
This is bad news for Talking Book Libraries and Patrons. Digital download of books through BARD will help but the transition to digital is slow. Currently less than half of NKTBL's patrons have the digital players that are required for BARD service. Talking book players are also sent through the mail. That means if a person’s player breaks after the Thursday mail pick-up, the soonest they could get a replacement player would be Monday.
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