Articles about organizational use of twitter

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407881&c=2

http://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/08/twitter-for-organizations.html

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407984&c=1

Popular E-book readers

http://www.digital-book-readers.com/?p=366

Open source answers for libraries

Hi class,

Check out the following open source tools:

Gimp
Scribus
Omeka
VuFind
Blacklight
reservesdirect
libstats
zotero
opengoo
camstudio
limesurvey
webhuddle
aptana
thunderbird
Yahoo Pipes
Zoho


See you in class,
Rong

Video conferencing; Virtual Classroom Freeware

Hi class,

You may want to use one of the following tools for your team work when you can not be physically together but you would like to meet on the Web --


http://vyew.com

http://www.dimdim.com/

http://wiziq.com


And you also have the link the VRoom in your e-learning folder.

Best,
Rong

After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software

Hi class,

Libby sent me the link to a very interesting article published on the Chronicle of Higher Education, relevant to our class:

http://chronicle.com/article/After-Losing-Users-in/48588/

Best,
Rong

100 ways of using twitter in libraries

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/14885

The google wars

Hi class,

You may be interested in reading the following article appeared on Library Journal:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698035.html

For details about the Google Book Settlement, go to:

http://www.googlebooksettlement.com/agreement.html


See you in class!
Rong