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15 Things for IPL’s 15th birthday is back, with Thing #7: podcastingVideo!
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The Internet Public Library was featured in a variety of contexts at ASIST 2009, including both posters and session presentations.
Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz, Chirag Shah and Sanghee Oh of UNC-Chapel Hill, presented on research which compared question-answering at the Internet Public Library and at Yahoo!Answers. http://bit.ly/1hsZbe Among their findings:
* IPL has a longer ’shelf life’ for URLs used in answers than Yahoo!Answers.
* Comparing the top 5 URLs used in answers, the top 5 urls for Internet Public Library were: 1.IPL 2.Google 3.Yahoo! 4.loc.gov 5.ALA.org as compared to Yahoo!Answers top 5 urls: 1.wikipedia 2.Yahoo!Answers 3.blogspot 4.Amazon 5.Google
* IPL gave more URLs per answer than Yahoo!Answers. IPL gave 4.53 URLs per answer as compared to 2.44 URLs per answer for Yahoo!Answers
Two posters by Drexel researchers at ASIST also described research at the Internet Public Library:
Crossing Borders: The Internet Public Library as a Global Information Service, Lily Rozaklis, Craig M. MacDonald and Eileen G. Abels, College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University
http://bit.ly/1nPWgZ
The User Centered Design of a Non-Specialist Metadata Tool and Interface for the Internet Public Library, Michael Khoo, Jung-ran Park and Xia Lin, Drexel University
http://bit.ly/2C6FJk
Congratulations to all of the ASIST ‘09 researchers!
15 Things for IPL’s 15th birthday is back, with Thing #6: podcasting!
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The Internet Public Library has 23 classes and over 500 LIS students answering reference questions this semester! Have a question? Ask us: http://bit.ly/BI3tj
The IPL explores new frontiers in IPL 15 Things #5, “Virtual Worlds.”
http://ipl.ci.fsu.edu/community/wiki/index.php/IPL_15_Things
The IPL’s 15 Things continues this week with Thing #4 on Wikis:
http://ipl.ci.fsu.edu/community/wiki/index.php/IPL_15_Things
Internet Public Library’s 15 Things Challenge continues this week with the release of technology Thing #3 : Social Networking! Learn more about Facebook, MySpace, other social networking services and how they interact with each other at http://www.ipl.org/15things.
Internet Public Library’s 15 Things Challenge continues this week with the release of technology Thing #2 : microblogging! Learn more about Twitter and other microblogging venues at http://www.ipl.org/15things.
In honor of the IPL’s upcoming 15th birthday on March 17, 2010, the IPL will be launching the IPL 15 Things – introducing 15 of our favorite technologies: blogs, microblogging, wikis, social networking, virtual worlds, podcasts, videos, forums and web boards, RSS, document sharing, social tagging, reading, awareness tools, text messaging, and images/photos. For each of these technologies, we will provide background information, best practices, related readings, examples of how the IPL is using the technology, and most importantly,
hands-on exercises.
So get ready! If you complete the IPL 15 Things by April 17th , 2010, your name will be entered in a drawing for a $50 gift card to Amazon – this way you can purchase something that will help you in your technology
development.
“Blogging,” the first of the IPL 15 Things, is being released today, September 8th. We will broadcast the link widely. Every few weeks, additional “things” will be released with the final release scheduled for March 17th.
Are you up to the IPL 15 Things challenge?
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