Tag: Libraries

In the Future, Will Libraries Look More Like Apple Stores?

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Sustainable Design

In the Future, Will Libraries Look More Like Apple Stores?
BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com

A new library in Texas appears to be normal, until you realize it doesn’t have any books in it.

In Bexar Coun­ty, Texas, the cen­ter of the San Anto­nio met­ro­pol­i­tan area’s break­neck growth, a pop­u­la­tion boom has left some res­i­dents…

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Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

And here’s a few fun ones in advance.

The Cor­nell Lab of Ornithol­o­gy just released an online archive filled with thou­sands of ani­mal nois­es. The archive doesn’t have every­thing—it most­ly focus­es on birds—but you could still was…

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JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to online literature

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to its online academic library
By Ben Kersey, theverge.com

Online dig­i­tal library JSTOR will begin offer­ing free access to its cat­a­logue of jour­nals, papers, and books. The Reg­is­ter & Read pro­gram will now allow indi­vid­u­als to reg­is­ter for the ser­vice, but mem­bers will only be able to read…

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Evolutionary basis of maximum connections on Facebook (150)

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

 

Views of spacetime along the world line of a r...
Views of spacetime along the world line of a rapidly accelerating observer in a relativistic universe. The events (“dots”) that pass the two diagonal lines in the bottom half of the image (the past light cone of the observer in the origin) are the events visible to the observer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Robin Dunbar: We can only ever have 150 friends at most… | Technology | The Observer.

 

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Information Today

by timbatchelder, posted in Linguistic Search
Information Society (album)
Information Society (album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Information Today, Inc..

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Library of Congress: a place for every Tweet

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy, Security & Privacy
Seal of the United States Library of Congress....
Seal of the United States Library of Congress. The seal is generally displayed only on official documents or publications of the Library; other logos are used as visual identifiers. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Library of Congress Home.

The online rolodex of the Library of Congress, this site houses numerous reference materials, digitized collections, filmsbasically any content you’d ever want to find.

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