E-reader update via TeleRead

Via Teleread, a blog containing "News & Views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics":

• SmashWords is getting smashed
• New head of Barnes and Noble's "Digital Newsstand and Emerging Content, Barnes & Noble.com" division.
• The New York Times is planning to spins off its book review section as separate e-publication.
• Stanford survey: iPhone is "addictive."
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports on Apple's contract for iPhone App developers.

Name that Blog Contest Results

Congratulations to Kyle Kreiger for submitting the winning entry, “The Sandor Files,” in the Library’s Name that Blog Contest! Thank you to everyone who participated.

LibraryThing Delivers Mobile Access to Library Catalogs

Marshall Breeding reports from the ALA Techsource blog that LibraryThing has created LibraryAnywhere, a mobile application which "provides an inexpensive solution for libraries to engage their users with mobile devices." This is a mobile (small screen) version of a given library's catalog, with access to electronic resources and individual patron records with validated access. Read more here:

LibraryAnywhere

Word of the day: "Ephemera"

Ephemera.

For instance, a bookmark, such as this one:

I just found this charming little bookmark advertising showings of "Marie Antoinette" (1938). It was lying within the not-so-charming "International Jew" (vol. 1, 1920) written by Henry Ford, which I just cataloged.

I wonder what policy of the Carolina Theater would have initially prevented them from showing it?

oMoby: Visual Search for the iPhone

Here's a post from Mashable that our iPhone users might be interested in:

"Omoby can essentially be summed up in four words: Google Goggles for iPhone. The visual search app allows you to snap a pic of any object and get back a list of convenient search results, retailer pricing, and information about that product."

Read the Mashable post
Get the oMoby app

A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries

The blog "Curious Expeditions" put together a great blog post of beautiful (traditional) libraries.



Check out the whole post here.

From the Archives-Document of the Week

This week, I've added two items to the Archives Blog - one is a short essay about Wofford's founding president, William Wightman. The second is a cover letter he wrote in 1827 to accompany his valedictory address at the College of Charleston.

I hope to put the entire address up on Flickr at some point in the near future, and to prepare a typescript as well.

Several addresses in the Wightman Papers merit similar treatment, including the address he gave at the laying of the cornerstone of Main Building, his first Commencement address in 1855, and a variety of letters and sermons.

One of the challenges facing archivists today is how to share as much of the content of our collections, given the limited resources at our disposal. If I spent all of my time digitizing and posting the addresses from the Wightman papers, I wouldn't be able to focus on other collections or any requests from patrons. Nevertheless, gradually adding digital content is something that I am going to continue to do.

Lessons Learned: How College Students Find Information in the Digital Age

This post from A Curious View of the World blog (whose blogger found the study courtesy of KG Schneider on the Free Range Librarian blog) links to a report produced by Project Information Literacy from a study by Dr Allison J. Head and Dr Michael B. Eisenberg. Read the full report here:


Lessons Learned: How College Students Find Information in the Digital Age

14 Tools to Teach about Creative Commons

Rodd Lucier at The Clever Sheep rounds up 14 Tools to Teach about Creative Commons. This brief post gathers toolkits, videos, slideshows, projects, and audio files to help educate students about how to license their works through the Creative Commons.


Rodd Lucier is an educator who assists teachers in leveraging Web 2.0 technologies for the classroom.

Join us today (March 1) at 4pm for a lecture by Dr. Tracy Revels!

Please join us today -- Monday, March 1 -- at 4 pm in the Library gallery for a lecture by Dr. Tracy Revels, Wofford History Professor. Her talk is entitled "Bitterly Against Us: Slave Women in Florida during the Civil War," and is being held in association with the "African-American Experience in Slavery and Freedom" exhibit in the Library's basement gallery.