Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: March 2, 2010
The British Library and Amazon have recently announced a new agreement to make 65,000 of their 19th Century literature titles available free-of-charge through the Amazon Kindle Store. I see this partnership as a big step towards the Kindle becoming the eReader of choice within the UK. Have a look at the press release at: http://www.bl.uk/news/2010/pressrelease20100223a.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BritishLibraryPressReleases+%28British+Library+Press+Releases%29 [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 16, 2010
For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will focus [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 5, 2010
For this weeks CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 5, 2010
For my presentation at this years CoFHE NW AGM I asked all attendees to focus on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their differing learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: January 29, 2010
Well, the greatly anticipated Apple announcement this week produced “The iPad” and, to be honest, I’m not quite sure what to make of it yet. One post I’ve read has referred to it as the “LP for the 21st century” because of it’s size being “reminiscent of old vinyl albums” (yes, I do remember them!) but concludes [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: January 29, 2010
Back in July,the American Library Journal reported that Arizona State University was being sued over their use of the Kindle eReader and the problems encountered by blind students with using the menus on the Kindle. They, along with other US Universities, were piloting their use for distributing eTextbooks to students, but because the menus on [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: December 22, 2009
eReaders are evolving into something that looks really exciting. Take a look at this article from the New York Times that my colleague Lisa Valentine sent me: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/business/06novel.html?_r=2&th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1260101016-RPQ1rGnExgyeeGn7HWJ8lg The enTourage eDGe looks stunning and should really move eReader technology on in leaps and bounds. There’s a demo on the enTourage website: http://www.entourageedge.com/ It’s not even [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: November 18, 2009
At the UKSG E-Resources for FE Seminar I gave a presentation looking at whether libraries and learning resource centres are providing learner centred environments. My aim for the presentation was to get you all thinking. Over the last few months I’ve been talking to Librarians putting forward observations and reflections, on how libraries could respond to the [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: October 12, 2009
If the Sunday Times is to be believed (ingear 11/10/09), Kindle may be the eBook reader of my dreams … but not yet Amazon is making it’s massively hyped eReader “Kindle” available to the UK from October 19 to very mixed reviews. Take a look at the comments on the Guardian website for example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/07/amazon-ebooks [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: September 9, 2009
Well, I’m disappointed. I’ve tried the JISC eBook for FE collection on the Nintendo DSi, and confirmed what my colleague Angela from Bury College mentioned to me that they are not viewable. Out of the box the DSi doesn’t come with the browser. To get the browser you firstly need to use the built in wireless facility [...]
