{"id":147,"date":"2009-11-04T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-11-04T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:25:00","slug":"links-of-interest-41109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/links-of-interest-41109\/","title":{"rendered":"Links of Interest 4\/11\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Resources<\/b><br \/>New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/nzetc.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/online-texts-for-current-courses-at.html\">list of online texts for current courses at VUW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dept of Internal Affairs has launched <a href=\"http:\/\/data.govt.nz\/\">Government datasets online<\/a>, a directory of publicly-available NZ government datasets (especially but not exclusively machine-readable datasets).<\/p>\n<p>Complementary Twitter accounts: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/APStylebook\">APStylebook<\/a> (Sample: <i>Election voting: Use figures for totals and separate the large totals with &#8220;to&#8221; instead of hyphen.<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/FakeAPStylebook\">FakeAPStylebook<\/a> (Sample: <i>To describe more than one octopus, use sixteentopus, twentyfourtopus, thirtytwotopus, and so on.<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Information Literacy<\/b><br \/>There was a lot of interest at and after LIANZA09 about the <a href=\"http:\/\/opac.lianza.org.nz\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?bib=491\">Cephalonia Method of library instruction<\/a> (basically, handing out pre-written questions on cards to students to ask at appropriate times during the tutorial).  A recent blogpost by a librarian worn out from too many tutorials wonders <a href=\"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/02\/so-far-so-far-away\/\">&#8220;what if the entire class session consisted of me asking students questions? What if I asked them to demonstrate searching the library catalog and databases?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Scandal du jour<\/b><br \/>A document by <a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed-media.com\/d9c05939cd983b55874431d52eb880c475e9e6bd\">Stephen Abram (SirsiDynix) on open source library management systems<\/a> (pdf, 424KB) appeared on WikiLeaks.  The biblioblogosphere saw this as evidence of SirsiDynix secretly spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) against their open-source competition.  Stephen Abram replied on his blog that <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/its_about_a_res.html\">it was never a secret paper and he&#8217;s not against open source software but it&#8217;s not ready for most libraries<\/a>.  Much discussion followed in his blog comments and on blogs elsewhere; Library Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6704622.html\">has also picked up the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>For fun<\/b><br \/>Also at Library Journal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6704296.html?nid=3285\">The Card Catalog Makes a Graceful Departure at the University of South Carolina<\/a> &#8211; rather than just dumping it the library is hosting events such as a Catalog Card Boat Race and What Can You Make With Catalog Cards?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/100scopenotes.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/15\/things-librarians-fancy\/\">Things Librarians Fancy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ResourcesNew Zealand Electronic Text Centre has posted a list of online texts for current courses at VUW. The Dept of Internal Affairs has launched Government datasets online, a directory of publicly-available NZ government datasets (especially but not exclusively machine-readable datasets). 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