Archive for July, 2006
World eBook Fair is hosting absolutely free access to 1/3 million eBooks for personal use, all free of charge from July 4 – August 4, 2006.
This event is brought to you by the oldest and largest free eBook source on the Internet, Project Gutenberg, with the assistance of the World eBook Library, the providers of the largest collection, and a number of other eBook efforts around the world.
Over 12 million free e-books have been downloaded as of July 20th.
July 26th, 2006
Photos from today’s workshop on blogging have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account. Click here to see the new set.
July 19th, 2006
Today our fearless leader, Randy Dykhuis, celebrated his 50th birthday. Staff decorated his office in a Civil War theme and prepared a special PowerPoint “This is Your Life” presentation.
This is not a joke — the fire truck and firemen did arrive! Too many candles on the cake this year, Randy?????
July 18th, 2006
Michigan librarian, Kevin Smith, from the Cass District Library is experimenting with video podcasting on his blog. He’s using Podomatic. See his first video podcasting test on Podmatic here.
I’m looking forward to seeing what Kevin does with video podcasting for his library. What are the rest of you doing? Please let us know!
July 17th, 2006
Some libraries are going beyond podcasts with “vodcasts” (video podcasts). Check out Orange County Library System’s vodcasts. OCLS (Florida) is using vodcasts to show clips from recent library programs. What a great way to showcase what the library has done and to entice residents to attend upcoming programs!
Are any libraries in Michigan doing vodcasts yet? Please post a comment below and share the URL for your vodcasts – or any other cool technology your library is using. Thanks!
July 13th, 2006
Photos from the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans have been added to MLC’s Flickr account. See them at www.flickr.com/photos/michiganlibraryconsortium/.
July 7th, 2006
