Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide - Michael Gurstein

participation vs access; producing vs consuming; local social context; participatory design; "effective use" of ICTs for concrete gains

http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_12/gurstein/

Richard Lamb "The Pursuit of God in the Company of Friends" is an argument for community in knowing God. An easy read. Lessons from the Bible, especially Jesus' life and ministry. Open sharing of anecdotes from his own life. Practical focus - manifesto for action. Each chapter on a different aspect of the philosophy or practice of friendship. Published by InterVarsity Press. I got it free :)

A.W.Tozer "The Pursuit of God". Slim volume. Classic. Everyone should read it. I have to return it to my friend Anne now.

Aiyoh, hungry liao... I randomly put "wan tan mee" into my Google toolbar, which sits at the top of my browser window, and the first hit was this page, with mouthwatering photographs... or at least, pictures of char siu, which I have not had in a long while. The site itself is a rather interesting thing.

http://www.hosengkee.com/English/product.htm

Picture of the shop - typical Chinese coffeeshop model, middle, not corner - http://www.hosengkee.com/English/map.htm

Cornell's Digital Imaging Tutorial "Moving Theory Into Practice".

Everything you wanted to know about pixels, copyright, metadata, and all those fascinating and terribly boring issues you have to or should deal with in planning or considering or carrying out a digital imaging/preservation/reformatting project - for a start, anyway. Very clean, nicely presented, bite-size chunks. Highly recommended introduction. Just remember, it IS a technical subject. Understandable, but can seem tedious/academic. All this back-end work!

http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html

Conway, Paul. "Digital Technology Made Simpler", from the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) provides a higher-level overview of the issues involved. This pamphlet does a better job of introducing concepts related to digitization to a novice audience. Also freely available. I love nonprofits, libraries and the culture of sharing! (That's an interesting side issue - access to information vs. proprietary needs)

http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf54.htm

"The key to image quality is not to capture at the highest resolution or bit depth possible, but to match the conversion process to the informational content of the original, and to scan at that level--no more, no less." - because as resolution increases, at some point image quality will level off, and increasing resolution only creates a larger file

http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/conversion/conversion-03.html

"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim."
-Linton Weeks

My first creme brulee at La Dolce Vita yesterday. It's a sweet white custard (mine was flavoured with vanilla bean, the classic, I think). With a thin caramelized sugar crust. Served with berries and tropical fruit. Good, though still does not beat pavlova.

From CremeBrulee.com: (http://www.cremebrulee.com/creme.htm)
"The origins of crème brûlée (pronounced krehm broo-LAY) are very much in contention, with the English, Spanish, and French all staking claim. The Spanish have taken credit for this sensuous custard as "crema catalana" since the eighteenth century, while the English claim it originated in seventeenth-century Britain, where it was known as "burnt cream" and the English school boys at Cambridge demanded it. It apparently wasn't until the end of the nineteenth century that common usage of the French translation came into vogue, putting it on the map from Paris to Le Cirque in New York City." See also note from Trinity College http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=440

A Day in the Life of Africa

"On February 28th, 2002 95 photojournalists from 26 countries spread across the African continent for a 24-hour photo shoot."

http://allafrica.com/photoessay/adayinthelife/

http://allafrica.com/photoessay/adayinthelife/photo1.html

Kicking Tongues - a Nigerian Canterbury Tales

http://www.urbana.org/resources.biblio.detail.cfm?RecordId=518

Beginnings of an information book list

Brown & Duguid, Social Life of Information
David Levy Scrolling Forward: Documents in the Digital Age
Alexander Stille The Future of the Past

While I'm at it - Elizabeth Whitmore participatory action design; Letter to our (a?) teacher; David Barton (recommendations from Ann Bishop, UIUC, community inquiry labs)

Paul Farmer writes books!

Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor / Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / Paul Farmer. Updated ed. with a new preface.
Published Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 2001.

Library and Information Services for the Pharmaceutical Industry - my Web report.

http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~eskua/626/index2.html

Not great, but there it is.

"Although one may think that all westerns are the same, Genreflecting lists 40 distinct themes and the names of authors who specialize in each one. Some readers will devour any western about range wars but will not touch a title about mountain men." - Evans, "Developing Library and Information Center Collections", Chap. 4

Betty Rosenberg and Diane Tixier Herald, Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction, 4th ed. (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1995).

life expectancy

responsible custody

enduring value

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/arcrept/arcrept.html

From Todd, SI 626: Just thought I would recommend a book for you two if you want to learn more about HTML layout. The title is *Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design*, which goes through examples of using cascading style sheets to do layout. It's much more flexible than tables, although more finicky. The book does a good job of showing different positioning techniques depending on your particular need, and how to make it work in all browsers (that is, how to get IE to render it correctly since it doesn't follow the CSS standards very well). The book is available at the Media Union but it's checked out right now.

I was at the Christianity Today Web site and saw an ad: "Marriage Partnership: Risk-Free Trial Offer!"

It struck me as a contradiction in terms. (It was an ad for a publication of course, not the relationship itself. But you know...)

I am afraid to open my email, because of what I might find there.

Oh well. Suck it up and deal!

An experiment. Archival value? Doubt it. Preservation? Chancy. Still, it's worth a shot.