For Boris Johnson and St. George

Not really for Boris. Or the right wingers that would hijack folk. For the Tolpuddle Martyrs and all the others. And Jack Jones (RIP). Read The Guardian story here. Yeah, I know, bloody left-wingers...
























2 Wordles in one day? Well if it's good enough for the aforementioned newspaper...

Graphic courtesy Wordle - www.wordle.com
Lyric - Leon Rosselson : The World Turned Upside Down

It's A Mad, Mad World, My Masters!

Sage words... List well.

How long you sayMichael? About 3 minutes but a great stress-buster!



Image courtesy Wordle - http://www.wordle.com

Earth Day 2009

Would that he were wrong...



Sorry. Bad day at Black Rock.

e-Books for FE from the JISC

The e-books for FE Project will provide Further Education colleges in the UK with access to a Core Collection of e-books on a platform which provides functionality suitable for the needs of the community.

Well, we've had the consultation and now we wait until May. Or perhaps not. There's nothing on the project website (http://fe.jiscebooksproject.org/) as of today - maybe we're all still on holiday - but according to a press release published on Wednesday 15th on Yahoo! Finance...

"...ebrary®, a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that it has been appointed by JISC Collections to supply the e-book content and delivery platform for its multimillion-dollar e-books for FE Project. Under the terms of the contract, negotiated in partnership with the company’s authorized distributor 2info, the JISC will fund a collection of over 3,000 multidisciplinary e-books from ebrary and use ebrary’s technology to deliver the content to over 440 Further Education colleges in the United Kingdom. Participating colleges may also supplement this collection by purchasing additional titles through a framework agreement."

Maybe I didn't read the original project documentation properly. Maybe I just imagined that what we would get would be something along the lines of the HE Project (36 e-books). Maybe somebody's just jumped the gun a wee bit (although the press release is from ebrary). We'll see.

What I do know (and this is not a complaint), 3000 e-books is an awful lot of cataloguing if you don't have that MARC import module on your LMS... Goodbye summer projects.