January 03, 2007
Bateginik: a collaborative news agregator
A group of municipal libraries from the Basque Country have launched Bateginik, an online news agregator showing headlines from the weblogs of all these libraries. It was started on October 2005 and shows commentaries about adults and children books, as well as non-fiction, music and films. This experience illustrates the advantages of collaborative content management systems and its easy and useful application on libraries. The coordination of the bulletin falls on the Municipal Library of Muskiz, pioneer on the use of contents syndication for the spreading of libraries activities.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Internet | Published: January 03, 2007
December 11, 2006
Lulu.com, a new notion of publishing
The new company Lulu.com, set up in 2002 by Bob Young (one of the fathers of the successful Red Hat), reached Spain some months ago. Devoted to the publishing, buying and selling of digital products (books, music, pictures, and films), Lulu suggests a new model for the intermediaries to be removed in favour of the authors, who could choose the kind of licence and the final price for their work. The company will get a benefit of 20% over the profits. The initial expenditure for the author will be none. The previous evaluation of the contents and the censorship are dismissed as they consider that it is the market that determine the success or the failure of a work. The buying of this publications must be done through the web site.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Internet | Published: December 11, 2006
October 16, 2006
Libraries into virtual worlds
It seems as if the “avatars” (the name with they are known, the inhabitants of a virtual world) also needs libraries, and that’s why in Second Life (the 3D virtual world that has been constructed since 2003 by its inhabitants) it has been created a library. Lori Bell is behind the project, presented in april. She runs the innovation area in the Alliance Library System, and her main aim is to promote both, real and online libraries services for those adults that are not users of a library in any other way. A group of “avatars”, controled by voluntary librarians are working in the new library and they talk about very similar services to those in the real world. they are also working in the incorporation of tools from the known Biblioteca 2.0.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Internet | Published: October 16, 2006
November 27, 2003
The Internet in libraries
The Entidad Pública Empresarial Red.es, in the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología trough the Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información, has put the web site about the programme Internet in libraries online.
The Internet in libraries is oriented to all the Spanish public libraries, no matter if they are national, regional or municipal, and it tries to give a wide-band connection to these institutions and make them centres of public access to the Internet. The programme will invest about 38 million euros in the more than 4.000 public libraries in Spain to do, among other, the following initiatives: Wide-band connections, wire-less local networks, more than 12.000 new equipments with public conection to the Internet, free applications and library coordination improvement.
This entity coordinates another series of programmes related to data transmission, culture and education. We can get information about all of them in the web site Red.es.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Internet | Published: November 27, 2003
June 02, 2003
Libraries and the Internet
The server ABSYSNET, created to give resources to libraries, has prepared in its last actialization a monogragh about the Internet and libraries, in which it makes an analysis of the Internet services that are useful in library, at the same time it studies the Internet applications in the library work. For this last thing, it starts from the article
50 aplicaciones bibliotecarias de Internet, published in the magazine Educación y Biblioteca.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Internet | Published: June 02, 2003
