QR Code: Learn about me
NetGalley Advocate
NetGalley Badge
Tech News from the Assoc. for Computing Machinery- Ayanna Howard Named ACM Athena Lecturer
- Biden Signs Executive Order to Strengthen U.S. Cybersecurity Defenses After Colonial Pipeline Hack
- Patients May Not Take Advice from AI Doctors Who Know Their Names
- Singapore Researchers Control Venus Flytraps Using Smartphones
- Amazon Cloud Technology Aids NFL in Schedule Making
- My Pinterest Food board (http://pinterest.com/kellibkelli/)
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
- Search Research
- SearchResearch Challenge (5/12/21): How to do slow research?Suppose... 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland... that you want to write a book about something that you only partly understand but find fascinating. Obviously, you want to spend some time coming up to speed, perhaps learning about the area over the next year or so. How would you do that? What would you actually do to become an autodidact (that is, a sel […]
- Answer: Internal incorporation? Know how some animals use tools? P/C Cyberminnie at FlickrIn our last episode we saw this pom pom crab as it carries a sea anemone in each of its claws, using them as a defensive tool in the crab-eat-crab world on the coral reef. The anemones are essential external tools that are other living organisms. But looking at the pom pom crab (and other animals th […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (4/21/21): Internal incorporation? Know how some animals use tools? P/C Cyberminnie at FlickrThis pom pom crab carries a sea anemone in each of its claws, using them as a defensive tool in the crab-eat-crab world on the coral reef. The anemone has a great relationship with the crab, but it's completely external--it never becomes part of the crab. But, as you know, some animals take th […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (5/12/21): How to do slow research?
Goodreads
Category Archives: Print Disability
That All May Read: What IS a print disability? An answer + resources
Libraries are commonly understood to be the repositories of the human experience, storehouses which take that human experience and, from it, create opportunities for library consumers to “learn, grow, and know”. But what if someone you know has a print … Continue reading
Hathi Trust, Digitization, and Accessibility for PWD
I’ve been sporadically following the Hathi Trust Fair Use and digitization brouhaha, and it leaves me wondering if and/or how it will affect equal Accessibility for those with print disabilities re: the cultural record. Digitization to me means an increase … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Information Science, Print Disability
Tagged digitization, Hathi Trust
Leave a comment
Look, touch and feel: How your mobile interface will morph in 2012
From Network World: Look, touch and feel: How your mobile interface will morph in 2012. Touch, waving, voice all to become more prevalent mobile user interfaces: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/122111-outlook-mobile-interface-254225.html I’m excited by some of these features in this article; I current use the … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Computers and Internet, Print Disability
Tagged emerging technology, mobile
Leave a comment
Touch Graphics Inc. & Intrepid Museum: Multi-Sensory Museum Guide (from Library & Museum Accessiblity LinkedIn Group)
Manhattan’s Intrepid Museum Complex, which houses a tour-able aircraft carrier, submarine, and supersonic airliner, have used emerging technology, created by Touch Graphics Inc., to help people with sight disabilities have a more-immersive experience with the artifacts. On each floor, their “Talking Tactile Pen”, used in conjunction … Continue reading
Infocamp Seattle
This past weekend I attended Infocamp Seattle, an “unconference” presented by ASIS&T and the UW’s ischool. An “unconference” simply means that there are no planned events throughout the day – the participants are the presenters. Topics ranged from UX to … Continue reading
Posted in Information Science, Print Disability
Tagged accessibility, ASIS&T, Infocamp, print disability, UW ischool, WTBBL
Leave a comment
What IS a print disability? An answer + resources
As of today, according to http://www.ifla.org/en/lpd, it’s stated that only 5% of the world’s published information is fully accessible to persons with a print disability; it’s my career goal to help increase that percentage as much as I can. Some people … Continue reading
