Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Rutgers Libraries - TAS Building Pictures

TAS staff cubicles

TAS staff cubicles
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Rutgers Libraries - Technical and Automated Services Building pictures link.

SCILS Pictures


SCILS Pictures
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SCILS Entrance from Huntington Road

Here is a link to the pictures I took for SCILs building.
Here is a link to scils group favorite pictures.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Yellow Flower


Yellow Flower
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A yellow flower from Steve's garden.

Monday, July 30, 2007

Exploring Librarything and Shelfari

I heard about Librarything before, but I did not associate it with social bookmarking. I had an impression it was an online catalog; while I never heard about Shelfari before. Shelfari is a social networking community, which allows people to talk to each other about books. I think Librarything and Shelfari both are exciting tools that you can use to catalog your books and socialize at the same time.

The first thing I noticed when I started to explore Shelfari was the “search for friends” search command. I also noticed “explore users” comes before “search for a book.” In Librarything the first thing I noticed was “catalog your own books online.” I liked the thumbnail idea in Shelfarei; it is very easy to use, but it does not give much choices. Shelfari is very easy to use and search. Librarything is also very easy to use; I searched for books using “book suggester” by entering a book title. It took a while, but then I got a long list of suggested books.

Shelfari is more social than Librarything. It focuses on book lovers rather than books.
Book lovers can list their favorite books and links to reviews. Users can see who else have the same book interests, what their friends are reading, what books people enjoyed and books they recommend. Librarything focuses on books. It is very easy to search or tag. It has similar features to Shelfari and it serves as social networking too. You could tag your books and look at others’ tags. Shelfri content is very simple. Librarything has more options for books like “book suggestions.”

Librarything allows you to Import data, for example, you can import from Delicious, Amazon or elsewhere and export data which means you can access your books from anywhere. Shelfari allows for import data only. I liked both tools and they are very practical; I will add them to my Delicious.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Brown's Re-education

My comments on Brown's Chapter 8 re-education