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What Does a Librarian Do?

21 January 2011
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Have you ever wanted to be a librarian? Have you ever wondered what a librarian does?
This Vocational Guidance Film from 1947 describes what a librarian does, and what the requirements are to be a librarian. LIbrarianship is about managing, accessing, storing, and retrieving information. That information may be stored in a book, database or other [...]

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MLK Holiday: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

17 January 2011
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How would you visually represent a landmark speech in US history?
I have posted a video of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech below, in order to mark the holiday that honors him. The speech was given on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and [...]

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Hierarchy of Digital Distractions

3 January 2011
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How do you manage all of the distractions from the data and information thrown at you from social media, email, the Web, chat and [insert name of app here]? Well? Not-so-well? Do you focus on one task at a time, or do you multi-task?
David McCandless of Information is Beautiful created this Hierarchy of Digital Distractions [...]

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Air Traffic World Map

29 November 2010
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Have you ever wondered how many airplanes are in the air at one time? How about over a 24 hour period? Can you visualize this data? If so, how?
A group of students at ZHAW in Europe took on the challenge. Pierre-Alain Goualch posted this video of one way to display this data, which is this [...]

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Little Red Riding Hood, the Animated Infographic Version

20 September 2010
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If you were the Big Bad Wolf and you were on a diet, would you want to know how many calories Grandma contains? What about the cost of the bread and wine you, the parent, are sending to your mother or mother-in-law via your daughter? Tomas Nilsson took on the story of Little Red Riding [...]

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The Business of Death

16 September 2010
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How do you take data related to the worldwide funeral industry and make it interesting to review? If you are GOOD Magazine, you create a fun infographic that lobs various bits of data at you, along with terms like, “embalming fluid” and “formaldehyde“. Welcome to the Business of Death animated infographic. As the creators of [...]

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The Essence of the Credit Crisis, Visualized

10 September 2010
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How do you distill the essence of a complex and complicated set of data without watering it down so much the information become worthless? Jonathan Jarvis faced that question two years ago when he created the Crisis of Credit Visualized, “the Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis”.
I admit that I read the news [...]

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The Project Management Tree Swing Cartoon, Past and Present

8 July 2010
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The project management tree swing cartoon below is famous amongst those of us who have engaged in any kind of software project management. I first came across it in the late 1990s, when I managed small projects at a regional data communications company. I remember printing it out and hanging it in my cubicle, [...]

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The Digital Dilemma

25 January 2010
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In the fall of 2007, the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) released a report entitled, “The Digital Dilemma“. In a nutshell, the Council tackled the topic of archiving digital movies. They examined how this could be done, what the costs would be, and how these methods [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Deadly Cryptic Conundrum

20 January 2010
Team Digital Preservation and the Deadly Cryptic Conundrum

“Team Chaos have struck again! But do not fear, Team Digital Preservation are on hand, in what could be their funniest adventure yet.”

This is the latest release (as of this writing) of a series of animations by Digital Preservation Europe that address the digital preservation problem. This team manages to make something that can be [...]

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