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IssN 1466-9358 online Volume 40 Number 3 August 2014 Cover image: © Tale | Dreamstime.com - Concept For Inspiration For - Concept | Dreamstime.com Tale image: © Cover Digital stories Elearning & online games Elearning via videoconference Libraries & QR codes Museums technology Web visualisation Multimedia Information & Technology Volume 39 Number 2 May 2013 1 welcome We’d love to hear your ideas for articles, reviews or case contents Elearning is studies. bringing access News News to a wider AOutdoor new look digital for the bookshelf journal using; MMIT QR Group codes survey & prize winners 3 variety of subject Just email the editor: ShakespeareMMIT Group Annualdoes Manga Conference 2014 — keynote speakers 43 03 Bibliometrics; bamboo notebooks; totem pole art 4 experts and BFI News Free keyboard; animation updates; Credo news; voice control 5 educational catherine.dhanjal@ A Farewell to Arms 5 BFI: 1920s nature DVD; samurai epics 6 experiences, as theansweruk.com The Changes 6 well as offering Best of the blog 7 Reviews a variety of Changes to the profession, Google Wave & more learning styles to better suit varying Product review: Kingsoft Office Suite Professional 2013 7 ages and abilities. In this issue we Reviews Book review: Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals 9 Book review: Library Mashups 8 look at elearning worldwide, plus Features: elearning 05 Book review: Envisioning future academic library services: technologies from online games to MmIT is published quarterly Elearning technologies worldwide 11 initiatives, ideas and challenges 10 videconference. by the Multimedia Elearning via videoconference in schools 14 Book review: Information is Beautiful 12 Information & Technology Elearning through online games 17 Warm regards, Group of Cilip in electronic Book review: Content licensing: buying and selling digital resources 14 format in February, May, ProductFeatures: review: museums Xtreme Web Designer 5 15 Museums as technology early adopters 21 August and November. Copy Public library focus: Digitisation and digitalisation in museums 24 deadlines: six weeks prior to Wireless in public libraries 16 Catherine Dhanjal, Managing Editor publication. 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Linking physical and digital This linking of the physical with QR codes in action the digital is an aspect which Library Wall, in using works in Artefacto see as intrinsic to their North London’s outdoor the Public Domain (i.e. out-of- Library Wall idea. copyright) and utilising open “We’re interested in exploring digital bookshelf technologies such as epub and new and creative ways that books QR-codes, negates the role of and other cultural resources can Inspired by a Bucharest metro these ‘gatekeepers’ and reminds be shared in real, physical public project, London creative agency the public of the role public spaces” says Kate Lomax, Artefacto Artefacto have launched Library libraries can play in enabling co-founder. Wall: North London’s first digital access to our commonwealth “New mobile technologies allow outdoor bookshelf, enabling of culture. us to re-imagine the ways we anyone walking by to scan a book Situated on a busy North distribute and access information, title and watch as it downloads London street in Haringey, the and we’ve really only started to onto their smartphone or tablet. outdoor installation functions as a scratch the surface with what’s Library Wall is a prototype digital bookshelf for all members possible as the technology project by Artefacto celebrating of the local community, as well as continues to develop.” the role of public libraries in those just passing by. providing open access to cultural Curated in collaboration Creative community: Haringey content in this brave, new eBook with local residents, the digital Commissioned by Haringey Arts, and digital publishing world. bookshelf has titles likely to appeal Library Wall is the first in a series of Although many public libraries to all ages, with Beatrix Potter’s site-specific projects which focus are already implementing Jemima Puddle-Duck; Jane usten’s on Haringey’s creative economy innovative models of providing Emma; and H. G. Wells The War of and regeneration plans, which digital content for their users, this the Worlds just some of the books specifically involve Haringey’s emerging 1,500 people creative community that has transformed former industrial warehouses into vibrant spaces to live and work together. Haringey’s outdoor bookshelf is just the first iteration of the Library Wall project, with other Library Walls set to appear in London and beyond soon. www.artefacto.org.uk http://haringeyarts.co.uk/ Multimedia Information & Technology Volume 40 Number 3 August 2014 3 news MMIT Group Annual Because the very name “public Many people have an innate Richard Ranft keynote: finding many dozens? The solution is library” is almost synonymous with understanding of the role the sounds in the British Library expected to use a combination Conference 2014: Sight and the book and print in the general public library plays in a democratic of human and machine-driven Sound in Libraries public’s eyes, this has put us in society, in local and family history, Sound enrichment and visualisation tools. real trouble! Many people cannot community and literacy. recordings The conference runs from see a future for us due to the We must reinvent ourselves are a vital Richard is head of sound and vision September 11th-12th in impact of digital, eBooks and new and our offer and present a new and vibrant at the British Library. Sheffield, UK. Find out more at: technologies. We are often seen in professional, digital and customer record of Contact him on Twitter @ http://mmitblog.wordpress. people’s minds as similar to Oxfam focused offer to customers. The our culture, soundarchive com/2014/09/10/final-conference- bookshops. Why pay £10 in fines new offer must be a combination events, programme-announced/ at the library when you can get of excellence in social, physical scientific Graham McElearney keynote: two paperbacks for that in ASDA? and digital and create spaces in and artistic iTunesU, making learning global Liz McGettigan keynote: the Over the years we haven’t used both areas for people to enjoy and future is here! the term “information services” learn. achievements. They powerfully Apple launched iTunes U in 2005 enough over the years which is Many library and information capture the present and recreate and in the intervening time it has The future has arrived with a a huge part of our work and this services are already doing this past events: artistic creativity become one of the largest open vengeance and with it has come is why the news of our death has and have delivered a great digital in recorded performances, the access repositories of freely lots of questions not least for the been so greatly exaggerated. and physical offer but there varieties of languages, opinions available educational materials. public — will we exist? What’s We know we are about so much are not enough of us. We must and attitudes, key moments Last year The University of next for us? more and, in actual fact, librarians challenge the image we have and in our lives, significant events Sheffield