Gift Guide for Library and Book Lovers An Internet Hotlist on Gift Guide created by Library Advocate.
My favourites:
Book shelves
Books in Art
Bookmarks
Purses
and of course lots of lovely items on Etsy
Thursday, November 27, 2008
My Dewey Decimal section
joanna's Dewey Decimal Section:
492 Afro-Asiatic languages; Semitic languages
joanna = 051441 = 051+441 = 492
Class:
400 Language
Contains:
Linguistics and language books.
What it says about you:
You value communication, even with people who are different from you. You like trying new things don't mind being exposed to unfamiliar territory. You get bored with routines that never change.
Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com
I remember doing something like this at school to work out if I was compatible with particular boys.... Anyway have a go - it's fun and oddly true!!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Power to the people?
Evidently there are high hopes for social networking in the future. I have recently come across two blogs discussing whether social networking may replace (respectively) lawyers and 'some government functions'.
1. This topic has also been raised by the Gartner group, releasing a press release stating, Gartner Says Citizen Social Networks Will Complement, and May Replace, Some Government Functions.
From eGov
2. Legal futurist Richard Susskind's sequel to his 1996 best-seller The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology (Oxford UP) will be published in December. The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (Oxford UP, December 2008) continues the author's focus on the effect of advances in information technology upon the law and legal practice, providing fresh perspectives and analysis of anticipated developments in the decade to come. In particular, he aims to explore the extent to which the role of the traditional lawyer can be sustained, in the face of the challenging trends in the legal marketplace and the new techniques and technologies for the delivery of legal services.
Among Suskind's predictions: (1) legal advice will be recycled by clients in social networking communities just like knowledge management recycles attorney work product internally and (2) client communities will push law firms to come together and form their own social networks to hold down costs by not reinventing the wheel.
From Law Librarian Blog
1. This topic has also been raised by the Gartner group, releasing a press release stating, Gartner Says Citizen Social Networks Will Complement, and May Replace, Some Government Functions.
From eGov
2. Legal futurist Richard Susskind's sequel to his 1996 best-seller The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology (Oxford UP) will be published in December. The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (Oxford UP, December 2008) continues the author's focus on the effect of advances in information technology upon the law and legal practice, providing fresh perspectives and analysis of anticipated developments in the decade to come. In particular, he aims to explore the extent to which the role of the traditional lawyer can be sustained, in the face of the challenging trends in the legal marketplace and the new techniques and technologies for the delivery of legal services.
Among Suskind's predictions: (1) legal advice will be recycled by clients in social networking communities just like knowledge management recycles attorney work product internally and (2) client communities will push law firms to come together and form their own social networks to hold down costs by not reinventing the wheel.
From Law Librarian Blog
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Australian Library Industry Twitter Users List
I just came across this post on Libraries Interact by Neerav. Great idea!
Australian Library Industry Twitter Users List
I was wondering if I could use Twitter for something useful.... I have also been reading about a debate happening in the US among Lawyers on the value of blogging and twittering, from the Legal Blog Watch
Australian Library Industry Twitter Users List
I was wondering if I could use Twitter for something useful.... I have also been reading about a debate happening in the US among Lawyers on the value of blogging and twittering, from the Legal Blog Watch
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)