Getting a little tired of “googling” everything hoping to find relevant information? Try using CPCC Libraries Del.icio.us bookmarks!
Each time one of our librarians finds a particularly interesting and useful website, we save it – so you can use it! Tagging each website in Del.icio.us creates a group, so you can find your topic of interest by searching or just clicking the ‘tag.’
Try it!
Are you an artist looking for ways to find opportunities to show your work? Are you an art instructor looking for exhibition opportunities to show students? Take a look at the CPCC Library Delicious page under the Artist_Opportunity tag. We have several good websites that offer artists of all levels, listings of gallery exhibition opportunities. Art Deadlines List provides listings of Art contests and competitions, art jobs and internships, art scholarships and grants and fellowships, art festivals, call for entries/proposals/projects, and other opportunities, in all disciplines, for art students, art teachers, and artists of all ages.
Artdeadline.com has several free listings and you can also subscribe to the list for an annual fee and receive full listings of artist income and exhibition opportunities.
Sunshine Artist is also on the Delicious list it “is the nation’s leading publication for art and craft show exhibitors, promoters and patrons. It provides reviews of everything from fine art fairs and festivals to small craft shows around the country, focusing on all aspects of the shows from sales to artist amenities to the quality of art or craft. Also included in each issue: hundreds of art and craft show listings, including contacts, booth fees, application deadlines and the type of art/craft that the event accepts”
Want to know if your CPCC Librarians have added new and exciting webpages to Delicious? You can keep up with each new site added to CPCC Library’s Delicious page by subscribing to the RSS Feed. If you already use a feed reader such as Bloglines or Google Reader simply subscribe to the delicious feed by entering the URL: www.delicious.com/cpcclibrary .
You can also subscribe to have updates to specific tags. For instance, if you just want to see updates to the Current_Interest tags or Art then your URL for the subscription would look like this: www.delicious.com/cpcclibrary/Current_Interest or for Art: www.delicious.com/cpcclibrary/Art .
If you are new to RSS Feeds check out an article on the subject by going to our delicious list and select the tag RSS_Feeds. There is a very clear and concise article describing RSS feeds and several different feed readers. (The article is called RSS Feeds: A Primer) Microsoft Outlook also provides a feed reader.
This week’s Delicious links: National Archives, Designing and Connections
Check out the National Archives YouTube channel. “The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the nation’s record keeper “, is set to showcase popular archived films and inform the public about upcoming events around the country. The National Archives plans to add a new film on one or more of its YouTube channel playlists each week. Find this link in the Videos tag, or History.
And continuing to add to the Interior_Design tag- take a look at the link to BlueStar- manufacturer of high-powered commercial ranges now marketed exclusively to the residential market. The ranges are available in 190 different colors. WOW- seriously you can in fact get a pink double door oven… The site offers photos and videos of the BlueStar ranges. And a very cool feature is the “Build your BlueStar” allowing you to create a completely customized range. This link is also in the CUL tag for our culinary folks.
And finally, check out the Disaboom page. This website offers “lifestyle articles, blogs, forums, and health information about SCI, cerebral palsy, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, and other disabilities.” Topics such as adaptive sports and accessible travel…Be sure to take a look at the Resources section- it provides a list of disability specific organizations as well as organizations focused by context. A jobs section has a job search feature as well as a place to post resumes. Also many fantastic videos are available on the site. Some of the categories in the videos section: adaptive sports, performing arts, assistive technology, words of wisdom, and just for fun. This site provides a wealth of information and resources.
This week’s Delicious links offer some Math, Computer Courses from Harvard Extension, tech talks from Google and a little design thrown in for good measure.
The Wolfram Mathworld site offers encyclopedic entries on different math terms and functions. Each entry provides information on the selected topic as well as a list of linked references. Another helpful feature in each entry is the ‘cite this as’ area which provides a citation of the page. Search alphabetically or by subject area.
Find this and other math resources in the Math tag.
In the Computers tag and also in the Tutorials tag, watch a series of video lectures on computers and the internet from instructor David Malan at Harvard Extension. The course “Understanding Computers and the Internet” arms students with a new vocabulary and readies them for further exploration of computers and the Internet. Topics include hardware, software, the Internet, multimedia, security, website development, programming, and dotcoms. This course is designed both for those with little, if any, computer experience and for those who use a computer every day. The videos of the lectures are available in QuickTime or flash formats. Oh, and did I mention- they are FREE.
Take a look at the two new links in the Videos tag. The first is from Google; “Tech talks at Google”. *There are a large number of technical talks at Google. Many of these are videotaped, and some are made available for external viewing.* Topics of the talks range from “What is the Mind?” to “So you want to be a programming rock star.” Fun!
Too much Tech? Check out the second video site added. It is from WGBH Forum Network. “The WGBH Forum Network is an audio and video streaming Website dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world’s foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders. These events are hosted by world-class cultural and educational organizations in Boston and beyond.” A lecture from artist Nathalie Miebach, offers a look into her art practice of gathering meteorological data that she uses to create sculptural weavings. Or listen to a lecture from Jacqueline Olds and Richard Schwartz as they discuss the previously un-reported American epidemic of living in social isolation in their new book, The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Century.
And finally, some great new links to websites for our Interior Designers and other design fanciers. A link for a custom modern furniture designer in Boston, MA, as well as a site for modern and contemporary lighting fixtures supplier, and last but not least; Karim Rashid’s website showcasing his world renowned designs. These are additions to the growing collection of Interior Design websites in the Interior_Design tag.
Finding jobs and improving job skills continues to be a theme on our Delicious site, where we save bookmarks to websites which we think would be useful for the CPCC community.
A link to Microsoft Office Online was added. It offers Free self-paced training courses for Office programs; a great way to keep up to date and in the know about all things Office. It can be found in the Tutorials or Microsoft tag. Don’t forget the keyboarding tutorial links there as well that will allow people to test, practice and improve their typing skills.
There are some great resources for locating jobs under the jobs tag. Two new ones this week are elance.com, this site offers opportunities for designers, programmers, engineers, just to mention a few.
Also listed is indeed.com a job search engine– search by job title and city and the results page displays job listings from thousands of company career sites and job boards. Find these two new listings as well as several others under the jobs tag.