Resources for LIS753

Readings for Weekend One 

Internet History

Cerf, Vinton G. "A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks."

"Copyright Law in the United States."

Useful resource from Bitlaw

Web Design That Won't Get You Into Trouble

Kennedy, Shirley Duglin's article "Web Design That Won't Get You Into Trouble" from CIL magazine: "It's especially easy-and tempting-to "borrow" photos or graphics from someone else's Web site. Control this urge even if you think you can get away with it. For one thing, you usually have no way of knowing the actual origin of an image. For example, on our Web site, we had a section describing our community that was illustrated with thumbnails of photos that our tourism office had commissioned from a local photographer. Suppose someone working on a library or community Web site in some other beach town spotted that shot of the generic, happy-go-lucky tourist family throwing cheese curls to the seagulls and decided to do the right-click thing and save the picture for use locally. And suppose the photographer who took the original picture happened to be surfing the Web and ... Well, you can imagine the rest."

Librarians Targeted in Latest Copyright Battles

Bowman, Lisa. "Librarians Targeted in Latest Copyright Battles," ZDNN, July 12, 2001: "Once books are available in digital form, for example, publishers may begin usage policies enforced through technology, such as erasing a book or journal article after a certain number of people have read it, librarians say.
What's more, as a rising number of copyright owners and software developers turn to licensing models, librarians worry that they'll be forced to pay perpetual rent on a product or lose the work--a possibility that could endanger the important archival role of their institutions."

Newsweek Cover Article on Web 2.0

The New Wisdom of the Web

Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials

Includes three questions to decide whether you need permission to use a copyrighted work.

History of the Web from W3C and Tim Berners-Lee

A Little History of the World Wide Web!

Creative Commons

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. We have built upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach. We're a nonprofit organization. All of our tools are free.

Introductory Resources 

Intro at Indiana University

Storyboarding and more!

Web Style Guide

Information on Planning and more.

Web Site Tools

Phil Bradley's links to various tools for Web design! Very useful!!

The New Web & New Users (Evening Readings Weekend One) 

Born with the Chip

Abram & Luther on Millennials!

Scenes From the MySpace Backlash

Wired magazine article

School Library 2.0

Chris Harris from SLJ on SL2

MySpace Can Be Our Space

Chris Harris on MySpace

Time Magazine:Person of the Year

It's YOU! Read the opening article and at least 5 of the profiles for class.

XHTML & HTML Resources for Class 

Sites for code and more!

W3 HTML 4 Guide TOC

Useful tags from W3..this TOC offers links to

HTML Color Chart

From WebMonkey!

Coded Character Set

Use these to add symbols or characters!

Tables Tutor

Helpful page for making tables!

Table Assistance

More help for tables!

Mark Up Guide from W3

Good resource for basics!

Got API

Loads of HTML tags!

Headings

HTML uses six levels of "heading level" tag pairs; the smaller the heading level number, the larger is the print size.

HTML Goodies

HTML Goodies intended purpose is to help new and growing website developers learn their trade, and to provide them with tips, guides and reference sets for their use as they become more accomplished. To that end, we have arranged the site into sections that range from a completely non-technical introduction to the concepts involved in developing websites all the way through to keyword references.

HYPE's Color Specifier for Netscape v.3

A plethora of color codes!

HTML Code Editor Quick List

Nice tutorial!

Clip Art & Images 

Clip Art Site for Teachers

From the site: "Here are the best educational clip art images from the web. Those in the right hand column (*) are our original creations. All other images have been obtained from "free" clip art sites, so to the best of our knowledge they are not copyrighted and are available for non-commercial purposes. You are welcome to use all of the clipart available here for non-commercial uses, just please remember to give us credit."

Readings for Weekend Two 

Online Cool on a Budget

Rachel Singer Gordon on Enhancing a Web site with Web 2.0 Tools and more!

IM Me

Schmidt & Stephens on IM in Libraries

Using Wikis to Support Online Collaboration in Libraries

Darlene Fichter on wikis in libraries.

Podcasting 101 for K-12 Librarians

Esther Kreider Eash presents podcasting in school libraries.

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes 2005

Jakob Nielsen discusses Web usability.

Blogging Tools & Flickr Fun 

FD Flickr Toys

Create a trading card!

Library Web Jobs (Evening Readings for Weekend Two) 

Background for our work in LIS753

They Didn't Have Jobs Like This When *I* Graduated...

Rachel Singer Gordon on the 2.0 Job Description...

Virtual Branch & Services Manager

Overview: A current organizational priority at TSCPL is the development of a Virtual Branch to serve library users online. The Virtual Branch & Services Manager will provide vision and leadership in designing, bringing online, and supporting the Virtual Branch, bringing ideas to the table with a high "wow, cool, nobody else is doing this!" factor. The Virtual Branch & Services Manager will lead a highly skilled cross-discipline staff in using new technologies to translate traditional library services into a virtual, Library 2.0 format and provide innovative virtual library services to our community, continuing a TSCPL tradition of exemplary customer service.

NextGen Librarian at Wayne State

QUALIFICATIONS: Master's degree in library and/or information science from an ALA-accredited institution; working knowledge of blogs, wikis, online gaming environments, podcasting, RSS and other Web-related technologies; experience in multi-platform (Unix, Windows, and Mac) environments; demonstrated ability to manage technical projects within a large library setting; demonstrated commitment to customer service; demonstrated understanding of the transformative possibilities of technology in the classroom; demonstrated collaborative skills; ability to think critically in analyzing problems and developing resourceful solutions; ability to manage a complex workload, prioritize tasks and complete work on time with minimum supervision; strong communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to work well as part of a team.

School Library 2.0 Job

Jenny Levine notes another 2.0 job.

On the 2.0 Job Description (Part 2): LIS Students in a 2.0 World

Michael Stephens at ALA TechSource: Where does a "user-created content" class fall into coursework for library schools these days? Possibly in a User-Based Planning class, or a class devoted to new technologies and libraries? Or could we fold user-created content into the core courses, i.e., how do we catalog or access podcasts?; or how do we use sites such as Flickr or YouTube for reference?; or what might MySpace accounts afford managers in the library-administration class?

Weekend 3: CSS & Metadata Introduction 

CSS Course at DRAAC

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets can be used to build an entire web page.

Metadata

Metadata have become important on the World Wide Web because of the need to find useful information from the mass of information available. Manually-created metadata add value because they ensure consistency. If one webpage about a topic contains a word or phrase, then all webpages about that topic should contain that same word or phrase. They also ensure variety, so that if one topic has two names, each of these names will be used. For example, an article about Sport Utility Vehicles would also be given the metadata keywords '4 wheel drives', '4WDs' and 'four wheel drives', as this is how they are known in some countries.

MT Style Generator

Sample site that generates styles for MT blogs.

CSS Style Generator

Sample site that generates CSS! Experiment with the menus and choicesduring lab!

CSS Presentation

Click through this presentation about CSS.

CSS Demo

Very clean and straightforward demo of stylesheets in action.