Category: Glenda’s Articles

I write a bi-monthly column for Online Currents in which I describe websites of interest to librarians.You can link to them here. read more

OLC Oct2012 WebWatch — Satire and Soapboxing

This instalment of Web Watch includes discussions on:

• satire, irony and parody
• men’s groups and mental health
• crowdsourcing – eCAPTCHA and Duolingo
• Olympic medallists in art competitions
• rabblerousing via soapboxing

OLC Dec 2012 — Web Watch

• What day is it? (Australian and international events)
• QR codes
• Financial transfers
• FreePint
• Communication and Language
• Google Art Project
• Infographics

Web Watch Online Currents Feb 2013

• cloud-based computing and librarians
• engineering information
• patron-driven acquisition
• Digital Curation Resource Guide
• Digital Publishing Guide
• ebooks and book reviews on the web
• plastic books and recycled paper books
• TinEye: reverse image search

OLC April 2013_Browne_Web watch

This issue of Web Watch contains information on:

• Open information and internet activism (including Aaron Swartz’s achievements)
• JSTOR
• Bushfires and vegetation
• ALA on ebooks
• Tumblr
• Underwater music
• Adjusting to modern technology (humour)

Web Watch Online Currents June 2013

• Disabilities and the NDIS
•  Online indoor mapping
•  Do-not-mail registers

First published: Online Currents June 2013

Online Currents Web Watch column 2015

Covers languages on the web and unglueit.com.

Online Currents Web Watch column 2015

Covers websites about media bias, heritage vocabularies, reading and publishing, and special copyright cases.

Covers domestic violence websites, research metrics (including altmetrics) and ordering edible bugs.