Google in talks with Verizon re: net neutrality (or not) depending on which story you read.read about it here or here or just google it. What is net neutrality? Love this video. ..and then news today that Google buys Slide, "a social application company". read more about it here

Google in talks with Verizon re: net neutrality (or not) depending on which story you read.read about it here or here or just google it. What is net neutrality? Love this video. ..and then news today that Google buys Slide, "a social application company". read more about it here

Heh, not that I really used it for anything (I guess that's the problem), but interesting to read the news. http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/08/wave-cancellation-google-gives-up-on-next-gen-messaging.ars

Heh, not that I really used it for anything (I guess that's the problem), but interesting to read the news. http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/08/wave-cancellation-google-gives-up-on-next-gen-messaging.ars

Internet archive has both moving images and stills including publicdomain; others are licensed under creative commons (CC).http://www.internetarchive.organd here are the various searches by CC license type:http://is.gd/dMHClAlso searching flickr by CC licensehttp://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?flickr does have some very short film clips.I'm sure there are other tools, even the creativecommons website hassearching functionality.Youtube allows searching by licens

Internet archive has both moving images and stills including publicdomain; others are licensed under creative commons (CC).http://www.internetarchive.organd here are the various searches by CC license type:http://is.gd/dMHClAlso searching flickr by CC licensehttp://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?flickr does have some very short film clips.I'm sure there are other tools, even the creativecommons website hassearching functionality.Youtube allows searching by licens

So, here are the kinds of things were are talking about and exploring in the Emerging Technologies Group for the Libraries. We now have a newly formed Social Media Group in addition to the Home Page Redesign Group and the Mobile Development Group, so the EMT Group is more of a thinktank group. We assist the other groups and try to look to trends in libraries (at least, that is our working premise).Thoughts on focus for upcoming year: Mobile, Social Media * How does Social Media mesh with our homepage? Should it? * Dynamic vs. static pages?

So, here are the kinds of things were are talking about and exploring in the Emerging Technologies Group for the Libraries. We now have a newly formed Social Media Group in addition to the Home Page Redesign Group and the Mobile Development Group, so the EMT Group is more of a thinktank group. We assist the other groups and try to look to trends in libraries (at least, that is our working premise).Thoughts on focus for upcoming year: Mobile, Social Media * How does Social Media mesh with our homepage? Should it? * Dynamic vs. static pages?

Sounds interesting...-------------------------Summarizing from an email:Karen Snow is a Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science in the College of Information at the University of North Texas who is collecting data for her dissertation "A Study of the Perception of Cataloging Quality Among Catalogers in Academic Libraries." This study addresses the ambiguous nature of "quality" in cataloging and the difficulties in assessing what quality cataloging means due to differing perceptions of this concept among catalogers.

Sounds interesting...-------------------------Summarizing from an email:Karen Snow is a Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science in the College of Information at the University of North Texas who is collecting data for her dissertation "A Study of the Perception of Cataloging Quality Among Catalogers in Academic Libraries." This study addresses the ambiguous nature of "quality" in cataloging and the difficulties in assessing what quality cataloging means due to differing perceptions of this concept among catalogers.