Digital Writing Labs

Well now I'm starting to collect information on Digital Writing labs. I can see one in Carmichael Library.

University of Texas' Digital Writing and & Research Lab appeals to me.

ASUS Transformer tablet: Farewell Kindle, bye bye e iPad

This caught my eye in the Chronicle today. The Transformer tablet is supposed to conquer the Kindle and iPad.

You can watch this YouTube to see how it works.

Creating a Mobile Library Website

Barnard College's Ellyssa Kroski has put together a great blog on tools for building mobile library websites. As with all things Web- and Library 2.0, there a number of services - - many available for free - - to accomplish the task.

As we look to the next generation of Carmichael on the Web, we need to think about how to deliver services to our mobile users. We know that our students and faculty overwhelmingly have cell phones and smart phones, and they are looking for more out of their mobile devices.

Services like WorldCat Mobile will become increasingly important as our patrons turn to mobile computing as a way of moving through and interacting with the physical environment. I look forward to investigating these new services so that our users will be able to interact with Carmichael Library's collections and content, no matter what device they're using to log on.

The Huntington Library has a Zen garden. Why not us? Take a look and let me know what you think. And a tea room.

We already have the ginkos.

Renovation is in the air. I'm going to use my blog to gather sources of info and examples of library renovations that appeal to me. Here's one from a COPLAC school: U of Minnesota at Mankato. What caught my eye was the following description:

"Bring in comfortable, soft seating to encourage students to gather & share. Also, work around the impossible constraints of adding 86 computers around immovable pillars that support the building."

Wow, another library with immovable pillars! Here's one way they dealt with the pillar issues.

Hey, I"m really excited about this blog I found. It's current, hip, and keeps me up on the latest Digital reading news. Try it out. It's called the Digital Reader.

I'm still keeping an eye on the eBook reader market in the academic world. Looks like Amazon's Kindle DX pilot project with universities hit a stumbling block. According to Andrew Nusca, blogger for The Toy Box on ZDNet, three universities testing the Kindle DX have agreed to stop participating in the pilot project until the Kindle DX is functional for the blind. You can read the whole story on Nusca's blog.