Techno Librarian

• Business Card Star
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• PhotoPerfect Express
  Arcadia Software
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• AdLit.org
  Resources for parents and educators of kids in grades 4-12
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I’m informed via American Libraries Direct that, Simply Audiobooks has a handful of free, now public domain,  audiobook downloads.  This is the link from the AL Direct: http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/Free_Audiobooks/dp/202/

I downloaded Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.  It’s in wma format, so I’m trying to figure out how to convert it to pull it into iTunes, which doesn’t appear to support that file type.

Well, a moment on the Internet and I have the solution.  Switch file conversion software.  A free version is available.  I downloaded, installed and converted the wma to mp3.  I then added to my iTunes Library.

There’s a new magazine for the blogger and podcaster (thus the name).  The digital version is free and it’s “magazine-esque” viewer is pretty cool.  It’s like the Zinio reader, if you’re familiar with that.

School Library Journal has a series of podcasts right now for National Poetry Month.  There’s a 2 part podcast that has Walter Dean Myers reading from his book of poetry, Jazz.  You can subscribe to their podcasts or listen to them on their website.

So for my Christmas list, I bookmarked sites with the items I wanted and tagged them with “christmas_list” on my del.icio.us page. Although not the first to do so, I did think of it before seeing it elsewhere!

As an alternative to bookmark storing websites like ikeepbookmarks.com (which I use and would recommend) or portaportal, tag sites with content-area tags or topic tags or however you fel best applies. Students can then go to your del.icio.us page with the added tag, del.icio.us/yourname/yourtag.

Have fun!

More library video fun! A bit disjointed, but fun all the same!

The Tennessee Asociation of School Librarians Conference will be November 2-4, 2006 in Chattanooga, TN. I will be presenting a session on Blogging in the Library!
Let me go prepare for that now….

Back to School: Automate your citations with Ottobib

If your book has an ISBN (they all do), you can auto-generate a citation with Ottobib.

Whether you need MLA, APA, AMA, or Chicago, Ottobib’s got you covered. All you need to do is enter in the ISBN and hit “enter” – and there’s the citation you need. Quite the timesaver; I wish that I had something like this when I was in school. — Wendy Boswell

Thanks to Lifehacker for this post!

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Photoblog.

from the website:

“Photoblog is a free photoblogging service that enables you to preserve
and share memories of daily life through photographs.”

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