Category Archives: Technology
Libraries of the future infographic
Another snazzy infographic depicting the possible future of libraries. It was adapted from PewInternet for a key address at the State University of New York Librarians Association Annual Conference in 2012. The Pew Internet produce a lot of research into … Continue reading
New digital archive for the UK
From 6th April 2013, six legal deposit libraries in the UK and Ireland will be using the powers of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 to enable them to gather and store a vast amount of digital material, particularly stuff … Continue reading
Schools, social media and digital literacy
Last week the Minister for Education in Wales, Leighton Andrews, announced that local authorities in Wales should unblock access to social media in schools in order to help teach pupils safe Internet usage. He said “Social networking sites have become integral … Continue reading
Keep up at the back! E-books and libraries update
As ever, the world of e-books changes on a weekly basis. I highlight some news items and stories about e-books and libraries in my scoop.it page (which should be accessible in public libraries even where restrictions are in place, and … Continue reading
Personal start pages, rss feeds and my public Netvibes page
At long last I have finally made my Netvibes RSS feeds public, and improved my own personal ‘start’ or home page. I have been muttering about doing this for about 4 years and it was only whilst working from home … Continue reading
Living in a digital world
(And I am a digital girl – well, sort of.*) Whilst we haven’t yet become cyborgs, the governments of Great Britain (ie England**, Scotland and Wales) are all trying to encourage a ‘digital shift’ through their own digital strategies. A … Continue reading
Show and tell at the same time – screencasts
Have you ever needed to show someone, who wasn’t sat next to you, how to do something on a computer? This could be how to find certain things on a website, or how to search a particular library database. By … Continue reading
New Welsh text to speech software
Most, if not all, public and academic library services in Wales provide assistive software for text to speech on computers. Colleagues in Wales may therefore be interested in a software partnership between the Welsh Government and RNIB Cymru which … Continue reading
Top 10 trends in academic libraries
I saw this briefing a while back, so some of you may also have picked it up, but it’s a useful, detailed, yet possible to skim, top 10 trends in academic libraries. Although written from an American perspective, I think … Continue reading
Wales becoming a nation of e-readers
New research from Ofcom suggests that “Wales is a nation of fast adopters when it comes to new gadgets such as smartphones and e-readers”. More than one in eight (13%) adults in Wales had an e-reader in the first quarter … Continue reading
