http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/aseldow/library Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://images.google.com/hosted/life Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. aseldow Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:43:19 +0000 life photos illustrations photographs images library gutman http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/05/27/twitter-for-librarians-the-ultimate-guide/ Don’t think Twitter has a place in your library? Give these suggestions a try and maybe you’ll change your mind. aseldow Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:34:09 +0000 twitter library librarians resources library resources http://safekids.com/ Great resources for child Internet safety. aseldow Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:43:34 +0000 safety internet safety cyberbullying cyberabuse dopa cipa k-12 library frps http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/index.html The Library Arcade features games designed to help students develop research skills through entertaining and easy-to-repeat activities. At this stage, we are testing each game to work through any technical glitches and prepare the games for a final version. aseldow Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:58:10 +0000 library library arcade research library research http://www.glubble.com/index.php # Glubble Trusted Surfing for children under 12 years of age enables families to be sure they only see the best of the web they choose to allow. # Glubble Altered Search makes Google and Yahoo show results from childrens trusted Glubbleworld instead of the world wide web. # Child friendly look and feel with interfaces for pre-reading and reading age young children. aseldow Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:52:59 +0000 safety internet safety cyberbullying cipa k-12 library cio frps http://www.lookybook.com/index.php Flash site to view entire picture books. aseldow Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:29:00 +0000 books library pictures childrens books http://halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/kids/tumblebooks.html Welcome to Tumblebooks - a fun and interactive library of animated, talking storybooks for beginning readers and older bookworms as well. Read along and listen, or read on your own Tumblebooks will help you build reading skills as you have fun with stories that are just right for you. After reading a story you can play puzzles and games or even submit a book report on your favorite Tumblebook story. Once you are ready for longer chapter books, check out classic tales such as The Wizard of Oz in the Tumble Readables section. aseldow Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:24:34 +0000 kids library tumblebooks school library http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page Welcome to Wikibooks, a Wikimedia project that was started on July 10, 2003 with the mission to create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit. Since our founding, volunteers have written about 27,501 modules in a multitude of textbooks. The central place to ask questions or discuss ideas is the Reading Room (this is the equivalent to Wikipedia?s Village Pump; Wikipedians may wish to read our primer before getting started). See also the mailing list. If you?re an instructor planning on using Wikibooks for a class project, please read our guidelines for class projects. aseldow Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:49:08 +0000 wiki wikibooks open-content books free books library http://www.rss4lib.com/library-labs.html The following is an alphabetical list of library web pages that list experimental, beta, or trial web tools and services. Is your library's site missing? Please contribute other web sites not listed here. aseldow Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:33:36 +0000 library library 2.0 tools library tools http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/a-librarians-guide-to-creating-20-subject-guides/ The New Web has brought with it some amazing tools for creating online subject guides. These tools offer the addition of multimedia and multi-format elements such as photos, videos, social bookmarks, RSS feeds, and widgets to traditional resource guides, as well as an interactive dimension which makes them particularly 2.0. Here are a few tools for creating your own 2.0 guides. Got any other ideas for subject guides? Please share them in the comments! aseldow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:59:44 +0000 library collaboration tools rss social bookmarking library 2.0 http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-one/ Librarians are experimenting with a wide range of Facebook Apps ranging from the productive such as the 30 Boxes Calendar, Meebo, Twitter, and Zoho Online Office to the silly with Zombies, Likeness, My Aquarium, and SuperPoke. Here are the first three Facebook Apps designed for the librarian in all of us: aseldow Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:31:25 +0000 facebook social networking library librarians apps library tools library 2.0 http://www.footnote.com/ We have created powerful tools that let you interact with and enhance what you find. Annotate important information on the image, easily organize and share your findings or collaborate with people who have similar interests. If you have original source images of your own that you want to share with your colleagues, classmates, friends and family, simply upload them to Footnote and use our tools t aseldow Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:11:46 +0000 history documents research library collections primary sources government docs http://koha.org/about-koha/ Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha's impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. aseldow Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:02:15 +0000 koha open source opac library ils http://libraryfind.org/ LibraryFind is... an open source metasearch application developed by librarians for libraries, built with Ruby on Rails. Some Current Features: Built-in OpenURL resolver 2-click find workflow Ability to locally index collections Web-based administration 3-tiered caching system (to improve speed of searches) Customizable user interface aseldow Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:55:19 +0000 opac library open source oregon state ruby http://researchforward.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/librarything-lessons/ Imagine a library catalog of 16 million books where you can create your own virtual bookshelf, add descriptive tags to your library, view thumbnails of book covers, access book lists from your mobile device, discover other readers with similar tastes, create book clubs and groups, submit and read book reviews, generate RRS feeds of your library, and more. It’s here, it’s now, it’s LibraryThing. aseldow Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:08:20 +0000 researchforward librarything library