{"id":125,"date":"2010-10-20T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2010-10-20T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T05:58:00","slug":"links-of-interest-20102010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/links-of-interest-20102010\/","title":{"rendered":"Links of interest 20\/10\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>QR Codes<\/b><br \/>(What&#8217;s a QR Code? See <a href=\"http:\/\/theinfobabe.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/qr-codes-overview.html\">QR Codes: An Overview<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Google has launched <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/\">goo.gl<\/a>, a URL shortening service (like tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc) which as a bonus <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5511793\/make-qr-codes-in-a-jiffy-with-googl\">gives you a QR code<\/a>:  eg <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Xxyl\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/Xxyl<\/a> links to this blog and <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Xxyl.qr\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/Xxyl.qr<\/a> gives you a pretty QR code you can paste onto a poster.  Shortly thereafter, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/10\/13\/bit-ly-qr-codes\/\">bit.ly joined in the fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the downside I recall reading (somewhere on the internet; it sounded plausible at the time) that, cool as QR codes sound, since they&#8217;re mostly being used by advertisers, actual real people aren&#8217;t really all that keen on using them.[citation needed]  On the upside, I&#8217;ve also heard anecdotes from people who do use them.  And in any case they don&#8217;t cost any money and almost zero time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Library tutorials<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An old post I just came across: <a href=\"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/2008\/01\/subversive-handouts-one-librarians-secret-weapon.html\">Subversive Handouts: One Librarian\u2019s Secret Weapon<\/a> &#8211; a sneaky way to get some extra face-time with a class.<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/librarian.newjackalmanac.ca\/2010\/10\/when-imploring-librarian-is-not-enough.html\">When an imploring librarian is not enough<\/a> &#8211; a sneaky way to get students to actually want to use Web of Science etc rather than Google Scholar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Open Access<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/poeticeconomics.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.html\">Dramatic Growth of Open Access<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/blogs\/scholcomm\/2010\/09\/24\/the-economics-of-open-access\/\">The Economics of Open Access<\/a> points out that &#8220;Every time a researcher or teacher cannot get to the information she needs to do her work, or must obtain it by labor-intensive means like interlibrary loan or direct contact with the author, time and knowledge, which are both worth money, are wasted; open access reduces that loss.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/bookoftrogool\/2010\/10\/12\/open-access-the-world-is-your-consortium\/\">Open access: the world is your consortium<\/a> sees open access as a new solution for the inability of library consortia, let alone individual libraries, let alone individual scientists, to be able to afford access to journals.<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/crl.acrl.org\/content\/early\/2010\/09\/14\/crl-167.short\">Almost Halfway There: an Analysis of the Open Access Behaviors of Academic Librarians<\/a> &#8220;presents results of a study of open access publishing and self-archiving behaviors of academic librarians&#8221; and discusses &#8220;several strategies to encourage academic librarians to continue embrace open access behaviors&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QR Codes(What&#8217;s a QR Code? See QR Codes: An Overview.) Google has launched goo.gl, a URL shortening service (like tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc) which as a bonus gives you a QR code: eg http:\/\/goo.gl\/Xxyl links to this blog and http:\/\/goo.gl\/Xxyl.qr gives you a pretty QR code you can paste onto a poster. Shortly thereafter, bit.ly joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[119,73,48,4,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}