Author Archives: Elizabeth Thomsen

Winter Photographs of Your Library

It’s January, and for much of the country that means snow! You may not like to shovel it or drive through it, but snow transforms the landscape, changes the appearance of our buildings, and can make for some beautiful photographs … Continue reading

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Google Search Stories

Last February, Google purchased their first SuperBowl ad, the story of a romance told entirely in Google searches, starting with “study abroad paris france” and ending with “how to assemble a crib.” This inspired all sorts of parody videos, and … Continue reading

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Art Babble

Art Babble is one of the most interesting, informative and stylish art websites I’ve ever seen and it’s no surprise that it won the MW2010 Best Overall Museum Web Site award at the Museums and the Web Conference in April. … Continue reading

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Looking at Data

[This is a page of links for a 30 minute session on Data that I'm doing tomorrow.] Data Trends: Structured, Visual, Interactive Wolfram Alpha — Precise, high-quality answers for structured data. “Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge … Continue reading

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Going Mobile Links

[This is a page of links and a few notes for a 30 minute session on Going Mobile that I'm doing in a few days.] More People Doing More Things with More Devices Smartphones, feature phones Devices that aren’t phones … Continue reading

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History Trends

This is a collection of the links related to the brief presentation on History Trends that I am doing at the Massachusetts Library Association Conference tomorrow. Facial Recognition Picasa and other image management systems have facial recognition that can help … Continue reading

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