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Tree Style Tab :: Firefox Add-ons is a brand new add suggested to me via a Tweet from libraronin. I installed it and have found it to be very useful. It arranges tabs in a tree like way similar to the directory structure you see in Windows Explorer. the tabs can also be placed at the top or bottom or on the left or right sides of the browser window. Click on the link above to install it. I hghly recommend it.

After reading this post from InSide Higher Ed, I began wondering if the author had sat in on a recent staff meeting in my library. Read more at Faculty Meeting Theater :: Inside Higher Ed

Faculty Meeting Theater

By Al Campbell

It’s that magical time of the month: the faculty meeting.

I’ve only been attending these time-honored rituals for about five years, but I’ve noticed something a little unsettling about the behavior of my colleagues: Though some are as quirky and unpredictable as the Chicago weather, many cling like spandex to the same role, month after month, year after year, agenda after agenda. They seem a little typecast — much like an actor who is always The Ingénue or The Mustache-twirling Villain.

In the interests of taxonomy and comedy, I’ve identified and named some of these character types. See if you recognize any of the following roles, which you may have played with gusto, admired from afar, or suffered through in perturbed silence. All pronouns reflect the gender of the specimens at my college, but I trust males and females of all these types can be found in the academic wilds.

Pew Internet: Home Broadband 2008 reports that:

Some 55% of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 47% in early 2007. Poorer Americans saw no growth in broadband adoption in the past year while at the same time nearly one-third of broadband users pay more to get faster connections.

You can read the full report at PDF version. I have one big bone to pick with the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The project only reports on such things as home broadband but does not do any advocacy for increasing the reach of broadband access into rural or urban areas. I believe they should be involved in advocacy.

Sometime in the past two weeks, Library 2.0 on Ning went over 3000 members. While I am well aware of the fact that many people just join and never return, that number is amazing to me. The community is also truly international in scope and membership. Here are the countries that have at least visited the network along with the number of visits (Google Analytics) since August 15, 2007:

Country/Territory Visits
United States 43798
United Kingdom 2818
Canada 2758
Australia 1897
India 1199
Netherlands 709
Germany 672
Sweden 633
New Zealand 574
Turkey 552
China 517
Spain 448
Greece 447
France 440
Italy 417
Slovakia 411
Denmark 363
Poland 285
Philippines 278
Indonesia 275
Ireland 264
Finland 260
South Korea 248
Norway 239
Portugal 230
Czech Republic 228
Taiwan 185
Israel 183
Singapore 182
Malaysia 181
Hong Kong 177
Switzerland 174
Brazil 171
Belgium 166
Thailand 159
Egypt 153
South Africa 149
Japan 146
Russia 144
Slovenia 138
Puerto Rico 133
Hungary 127
Argentina 114
Mexico 104
Austria 91
Lithuania 82
Fiji 82
Romania 74
Palestinian Territory 74
Iran 71
Saudi Arabia 67
Croatia 63
Pakistan 56
(not set) 54
United Arab Emirates 53
Nigeria 51
Colombia 46
Latvia 45
Ukraine 40
Uruguay 38
Estonia 38
Chile 36
Trinidad and Tobago 32
Vietnam 30
Jamaica 29
Kenya 29
Peru 29
Bulgaria 28
Morocco 25
Venezuela 23
Serbia and Montenegro 23
Luxembourg 22
Kuwait 22
Qatar 21
Sri Lanka 18
Ghana 17
Belarus 16
Cyprus 15
Bosnia and Herzegovina 14
Paraguay 14
Lebanon 14
Armenia 13
Costa Rica 11
Myanmar 10
Jordan 10
Albania 9
Iceland 9
Algeria 8
Nepal 8
Bahrain 8
Brunei 7
Oman 7
Guam 7
Ivory Coast 6
Ethiopia 6
Macedonia 5
Dominican Republic 5
Mauritius 5
Sudan 5
Serbia 5
Bangladesh 5
Guatemala 4
Barbados 4
Panama 4
Tunisia 3
Bolivia 3
Honduras 3
Zimbabwe 3
El Salvador 3
Netherlands Antilles 3
Ecuador 3
Somalia 3
Tanzania 3
Namibia 3
Maldives 3
U.S. Virgin Islands 3
Senegal 2
Seychelles 2
Mongolia 2
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2
Syria 2
Belize 2
Cayman Islands 2
Libya 2
Uganda 2
Macao 2
Uzbekistan 2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2
Georgia 2
Togo 2
Haiti 2
Azerbaijan 2
Malta 2
Botswana 2
Moldova 2
Grenada 2
Saint Lucia 1
Benin 1
Cambodia 1
Guyana 1
Bermuda 1
Djibouti 1
Yemen 1
Cuba 1
British Virgin Islands 1
Bhutan 1
Aruba 1
Madagascar 1
Equatorial Guinea 1
Tajikistan 1
Zambia 1
Bahamas 1
Malawi 1
Martinique 1
Vanuatu 1
Mauritania 1
Turks and Caicos Islands 1
Reunion 1
Antigua and Barbuda 1
Dominica 1
American Samoa 1

Here is one e-book reader I would be comfortable using. You can read more about it at New Scientist. The article links to a paper presented at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy) in April 2008. Watch the video below.




the dual-display ebook reader project

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