Monthly Archives: July 2007

color code list for all you web geeks…

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

…including myself http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/06/30/ultimate-html-color-hex-code-list/ i have seen other monster lists of colors, but appreciate the way this is organized in tints and shades.

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join the fun: tag some art!

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

do you know about ‘steve museum‘? snip from the website: “Steve is a research project whose participants are building a tagging tool, collecting tags, analyzing data, and engaging in discussion. We hope to apply what we learn to improving access … Continue reading →

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authority and ego in social tagging

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

it seems that i keep bumping into a polarizing topic of conversation; the issue of uncontrolled social tagging in environments that were previously controlled. in the past month i’ve been following a conversation thread on an email forum about social … Continue reading →

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Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

watching the hearing via the web. join in: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/live.html note: you’ll need realplayer to view beacher wiggins is on right now, talking about vendor-supplied metadata…

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Is Our CD/DVD Collection Worth All This? A Cost-per-use Study of Accompanying Materials

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

the corrected proof is up and ready to read at the journal of academic librarianship. if you don’t subscribe to the journal but would like to read, send me an email. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2007.05.007

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