Library, tech, etc.

Wolfram Alpha

This new engine is all about making data accessible and computable.  You really need to have a look to understand what it can do.

World Digial Library

Significant documents from around the world, digitised for easy worldwide access.

This is a great tutorial that the University of Auckland has created to show students how to use the catalogue.  They wanted it to be student centred rather than library centred and they wanted to get students envolved in its development.

The Sophie project provides downloadable software that enables you to create multimedia ‘books’. There is a video on the site that gives an idea of the possiblities. For libraries it might be a good way to publish content such as local history or information literacy.

This is an interesting site for Librarians who work in educational institutions. It allows you to publish lesson plans and resources for others to use.

This is an open source library management system. Their website lets you try the system out with a couple of demo systems and also links to several real library catalogues that use the system.

This search engine lets you search with google, yahoo or msn. It starts searching as soon as you start typing which could save you some time or help if spelling isn’t your thing. More likely it will just spend time finding things you don’t want until you have typed your entire equiry.

Library Mini Golf

Although this is a site for American libraries it’s always good to get new ideas for fundraising / promotion.