For those of you who couldn’t make it more than fifty pages into Ulysses (admittedly, I’ve never tried), might I suggest Ulysses for Dummies? A sentence or two per chapter coupled with some ancient-looking “animation” makes for a quick laugh or three. And somehow, I found it educational.
Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category
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Jun
The Webbies
I was checking out the winners of this year’s Webby Awards and found some really fascinating stuff I hadn’t encountered before:
Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus - Offered in both an online and desktop format, this reference tool gives you a manipulable graphical representation of your selected terms, allowing you to explore interrelationships between words. Really engaging stuff.
BrainPop - An educational site filled with great animations, quizzes, games, etc. There are many sites that work in the same domain, but this is amongst the elite.
Theban Mapping Project - Working toward a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes. Be sure to check out the Atlas of the Valley of the Kings - a genuinely worthwhile timesuck.
There are many other sites worth exploring amongst the nominees, so check it out.
I learned from the liblicense list today that the Lund University Libraries have put together a directory of open access scholarly journals. While I have little love for scholarly publishing in general, I am a big fan of open access and efforts to aggregate resources, especially when they are “free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.” Nice work. Hopefully, this project will encourage others to venture into open access publishing. And let’s hope for enough open access LIS publishing to warrant its own category.
