EBSCOHost releases an iPhone app
EBSCO has just released an iPhone app. It'll also work on an iPad, but not at full screen.
So how does it work? Log on to an EBSCO database. I’m going to use MasterFile Premier for this example. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. There you should find a link that says EBSCOHost iPhone/iPod Touch Application:
Select EBSCOHost/iPhone and enter an email address. You will receive a link to the App Store (you can also search and find it there without the link), and also a link to click that will marry the app to your specific institution. A very seamless and straightforward process.
There is just a basic search box, no option for "advanced search". Limiters such as Full Text, Peer Reviewed, date etc, appear under the Settings tab, but all the way at the bottom of the screen, below the list of databases. All databases appear to be checked by default.
The app helpfully remembers recent searches, and you can save both searches and articles for later viewing. Individual articles can be emailed, with full text. PDFs are available within the app. Results can be sorted by date or relevance.
Recipefy: Manage, Share and Discover Recipes
http://www.recipefy
Recipefy is an easy to use recipe manager to create and share your cookbook online. Organize recipes by tag, share it with your friends and bookmark your favourite one from people around the world.
Explore Artworks in Top Museums of the World Using Google Art Project
http://www.googleartproject.com/
If the big museums and their amazing art collection are something that you only get to see in the movies and documentaries then you should check out this awesome product by Google that’s called Art Project . It lets you virtually browse the art collection of some of the most well known museums across the globe. You can also explore the museums virtually using this tool.
The Art Project shows you high resolution images with deep zoom levels. It almost gives you the feel that you are standing right in front of them in a museum.
The homepage lists the museums on the left and the options to explore the artwork and the museums themselves on the right.
The Art Project isn’t just about browsing the artworks and the museums. You can also create your own art collections by signing in with your Google account and saving the artworks you like. Then you could add comments at specific zoom levels and share that collection with others.
QR Codes: Resources for Librarians
A QR code (short for Quick Response) is a specific matrix barcode (or 2D code), readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data. They are easy to create and offer a quick and interactive way to promote library events and services as well as engage students and patrons.
Blogger Ellyssa, aka the iLibrarian, has compiled a list of resources to get you started. Here are a few:
· How To: Make Your QR Codes More Beautiful
Hamilton Chan, CEO and founder of Paperlinks, writes a quick guide for Mashable about How To: Make Your QR Codes More Beautiful. This excellent article offers tips and techniques for making these useful barcodes more attractive, including adding color, rounding edges, and incorporating 3D impact.
· QR Code Quest: a Library Scavenger Hunt
Gwyneth A. Jones, Teacher-Librarian at the Murray Hill Middle School, aka The Daring Librarian has created an exciting QR Code Quest: a Library Scavenger Hunt. This innovative use of QR (quick-response) barcodes was created as a library learning experience for 35 middle-schoolers in an ESOL program. What a great idea!
· Scanning Library Cards on Smartphones
Brian Herzog at the Swiss Army Librarian writes about Scanning Library Cards on Smartphones. This is a very interesting article about how we can offer convenience for patrons who want to store their library card barcodes on their phones.
· QR Codes 101: Make Links to Your Website from Anywhere
Charles Hamilton at GigaOm provides a brief explanation of quick-response barcodes in QR Codes 101: Make Links to Your Website from Anywhere. This quick post suggests three different ways that you can leverage these mobile-friendly codes including:
To transfer contact information.
To drive traffic to special offers.
· To drive traffic to websites from display ads.
I can think of many ways that libraries could use these QR barcodes including:
· To provide links to stacks guides and maps.
· To provide the library’s text reference phone number.
To provide links to the library website, blog, and social media profiles.
· Use QR Codes and Dropbox to Share Event Photos
Matthew Rogers at Lifehacker suggests that the next time you’re planning an event you should Use QR Codes and Dropbox to Share Event Photos. What a great idea!
· QR Codes and the Library: The Library Audio Tour
Michael Whitchurch, Information Commons Section Head at Brigham Young University, presented
about QR Codes and the Library: The Library Audio Tour at this year’s ACRL 2011 conference.
His paper is now available online along with over 60 top-notch papers from the event.
Free Sites for Creating Word Clouds
A text cloud or word cloud is a visualization of word frequency in a given text as a weighted list - Wikipedia. Useful for visualization, brain storming, and mind mapping.
Here are David Kapular’s list of 10 Free Sites for Creating Word Clouds
- Wordle - probably the oldest and most popular of the word cloud creators. Word clouds can be edited with different fonts, colours, layouts, and even shared with others online.
- Tagxedo - make word clouds from websites and social networks, and then change the shape to meet your needs (ie, star).
- Tagul - similar to Tagxedo, an easy to use tool which creates fun shaped word clouds.
- Worditout – make word clouds by just copying/pasting text.
- Word Sift - pictures are generated to best represent your word cloud.
- VocabGrabber - similar to Word Sift. The clouds generated are colour coded.
- Tag Galaxy - an innovative site that visually represents words in a galaxy style format.
- Tag Crowd - a simple to use site for creating word clouds by pasting in text or a web page URL.
- Quintura - is a visual search engine where results are returned in a word cloud style format.
- TwitterSheep - a fun site that generates its results by keywords found in bios from a user's followers.
Food Tales, a joint initiative of the Queensland Writers Centre and the State Library of Queensland, is a celebration of the many traditions, cultures, and memories contained within recipes old and new. In a series of regional tours visiting 11 libraries throughout South West Queensland, Food Tales provides words and stories to the table in a series of luscious narrative feasts to aspiring writers. The tour includes author talks, creative writing workshops and the opportunity to explore what each local library can offer. As an added bonus, the workshops include practical digital publishing discussions with the chance for participants to contribute to the Food Tales website or even set up their own blog.
Check out our Food Tales blog and add your recipe or tale. http://foodtales.slq.qld.gov.au/
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