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Wow, LoC.

Posted in Controlled Vocabularies, Flickr, Library 2.0, Library of Congress, Tagging, collaboration, education, information, internet, participation, read-write, technology, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not completely sure how to start this post. First, I guess with thanks to John Fudrow, else it would have been even longer before I found out about this development (how did I miss this?). My original title for this post was LOC + Flickr = Interesting, but then I saw that the LibrarianInBlack [...]

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Welcome Back, Students!

Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today was the first day of the Spring, 2008 semester. This marks my second semester here at SHU and the first semester that I will be teaching IL 302 (Information Literacy for History Students). I am excited about this course, as I think the History Thesis project that each of the history students is required [...]

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when it comes to encyclopedias, does Google knol best?

Posted in Encyclopedia, Google, Wikipedia, collaboration, education, higher education, information, internet, knol, read-write, technology, www, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

knol
main entry: knol
pronunciation: \ˈnōl\
function: noun
etymology: 12/13/2007 Udi Manber in Encouraging People to Contribute Knowledge, “Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling ‘knol’…”
definition: A unit of knowledge.
By the end of 2008, the above definition might seem silly. Should [...]

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