Recently several major art museums have announced that they are making their digital collections available for download and non-commercial use. This opening up of collections gives students and anyone interested in fine art an opportunity to work with and use these images in their own projects. …
Author Archives: Sally Wilson
The Web in Your Pocket: Distributing Digital Resources using LibraryBox
At the recent Ryerson University Faculty Conference I presented this poster to familiarize faculty members with LibraryBox and how it might be used in their teaching and research. At the poster venue I had a LibraryBox for testing and had a good stream of visitors from a wide range of departments in the University – Nursing, Engineering, New Media, Sociology and Architecture. …
The Web in Your Pocket: Distributing Digital Resources using LibraryBox
At the recent Ryerson University Faculty Conference I presented this poster to familiarize faculty members with LibraryBox and how it might be used in their teaching and research. At the poster venue I had a LibraryBox for testing and had a good stream of visitors from a wide range of departments in the University – Nursing, Engineering, New Media, Sociology and Architecture. …
Customizing your LibraryBox v2.0 Beta
Recently I created a LibraryBox v2.0 Beta and have been spending some time customizing the look and feel of the default installation to reflect how I would like to use it and to prepare it for a couple of upcoming poster presentations.…
Customizing your LibraryBox v2.0 Beta
Recently I created a LibraryBox v2.0 Beta and have been spending some time customizing the look and feel of the default installation to reflect how I would like to use it and to prepare it for a couple of upcoming poster presentations.…
Building a LibraryBox V2.0
Last year, as part of a study leave, I built a LibraryBox using the instructions on Jason Griffey’s LibraryBox website. I thought that I’d use it at the Ontario Library Association conference (which has very limited free WiFi) to allow attendees to download the slides for a presentation that I was making at the conference. …
Building a LibraryBox V2.0
Last year, as part of a study leave, I built a LibraryBox using the instructions on Jason Griffey’s LibraryBox website. I thought that I’d use it at the Ontario Library Association conference (which has very limited free WiFi) to allow attendees to download the slides for a presentation that I was making at the conference. …
Embedding Getty Images
Getty Images announced yesterday that they would be making a large number of their images available for use free of charge as long as they are posted with Getty’s new embed feature. Using this feature allows you to embed non-watermarked pictures in your web pages and blog posts and provides attribution details and a link back to more information about the image on Getty’s website.…
Embedding Getty Images
Getty Images announced yesterday that they would be making a large number of their images available for use free of charge as long as they are posted with Getty’s new embed feature. Using this feature allows you to embed non-watermarked pictures in your web pages and blog posts and provides attribution details and a link back to more information about the image on Getty’s website.…
Libraries and ebook Creation
Today I presented at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference on the topic of Libraries and ebook Creation. The slides and notes (including a list of resources mentioned) are available as a Powerpoint file. The list of ebooks projects and creation tools (pdf) is also available as a separate file.…