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And the Winners Are…

Apr 27th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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The New York Library Association is pleased to announce the winners of the National Library Week Snapshot Contest. Please feel free to contact Johanna at events@nyla.org with any questions you may have.  Winners in each category will receive a $50 gift certificate to be used to purchase items in NYLA’s Fundraising Store or toward registration costs for the 2009 Annual Conference or for a NYLA Institute.

NYLA SLMS & Some New Google Services

Apr 20th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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I’m looking forward to presenting two workshops at the NYLA SLMS 2009 Conference next week. One of the sessions is on Google tools for schools. In the conference program I suggested people stop by my blog and tell me about their favorite Google tools. A bit late, but the invitation is still open and open to anyone! Please share your favorite Google tools.

And with that in mind, Google released some new features today.

  • Similar Images is a new service being tested in Google Labs. Search for a photo and look for the “Similar Images” link in the results to see more images like the one you selected. It finds images that have similar objects, colors & layout.
  • News Timeline – Also new in Google Labs. Select from many sources: news, blogs, photos, Time, Wikipedia, quotes and more. Select time frame (1800, 1500, 1952, etc.) And frequency: day, week, decade, etc. Great display of articles, quotes, news stories and more. Sampel searches:

Fun Moo Stuff

Apr 12th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Moo makes wonderful business cards, postcards, sticker books and more. Their products are fun to create and fun to use. Reading back through their blog today I ran across some fun things to create for kids – or for them to create themselves.

First this fun memory matching game created with family photos and Moo business cards.

And these great sticker books made from the graphics used in Facebook’s Packrat game.

There are lots more fun ideas on the Moo blog. Got some ideas of your own?

Poetry, photography & flickr

Mar 20th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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The Academy of American Poets Free Verse project on Flickr.

flickr free verse project

Inspired by the 2009 National Poetry Month poster design, the Academy of American Poets invites you to capture and share your own ephemeral bits of verse. Write lines from a favorite poem on a sandy beach, assemble twigs on a hillside, or chalk the sidewalk. Take a photo before it disappears and post it to the Free Verse group page on Flickr. Include the source of your lines in the photo caption.

All photos posted by April 15 will be automatically entered in a contest to win the new Poem in Your Pocket Anthology and a commemorative piece of hand-engraved jewelry by San Francisco designer Jeanine Payer. Selected entries will be featured on Poets.org.

via: Unquiet Librarian

Archival photos, civil war music, great slide show

Mar 18th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Kris Abery (CT State Library) did a great slide show today for their CT 23 things project. Photos from the CT State Archives, Civil War music from the Digital History project and Microsoft Photostory to put it all together. Then posted to blip.tv and embedded in her blog post.  All free tools and services. And knowing the speed at which Kris works, this probably took less than an hour? :)   Great job Kris!


William Webb (on blip.tv)

More Features for Free Flickr Accounts

Mar 8th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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If you have a free Flickr account, you can now organize your photos into as many sets are you like. Used to be a limit of 3 sets. And you can now upload 2 videos a month as well.

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