July 2011
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Has the Internet become an external hard drive for... →
“This is preliminary evidence that when people expect information to remain continuously available (as we expect with Internet access), we are more likely to remember where to find it than we are to remember the details of the item,” the researchers said. “One could argue that this is an adaptive use of memory - to include the computer and online searches as an external memory...
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Armchair archaeologists asked to decipher ancient... →
“Hundreds of thousands of fragments of ancient papyri have been put online in a bid to crowd source translations.
The Egypt Exploration Society and Oxford University’s Ancient Lives project has launched today and it is hoping to recruit ‘armchair archaeologists’ to look through and catalogue the images of the papyri; and transcribe the text.”
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“And I try not to get worked up about pirates because, back before the internet...”
– Charlie Stross, commenting on Metafilter (via infoneer-pulse) (via librarianista)
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“In our library work we must never underestimate the power of listening. To excel...”
– Designing Better Libraries » Keeping the Antennae Up: How Listening In The Library Improves The UX
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Librarian by day, rocker by night →
“The soft-spoken, bearded library assistant in the Life Science Library doesn’t necessarily have the look of an indie rock guitarist who toured Europe with an acclaimed ’90s indie band, but there’s more to Harold Whit Williams, who recently released his first solo album after taking a break from recording music, than meets the eye.”
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