Karen has just been telling a colleague about Diigo, and we thought it might interest you too. Basically, it is a way of saving all your favourite weblinks "to the cloud", so that you can access them via any device anywhere. You can add keywords and save to different folders in your account, to help you retrieve the links later.
- This is Karen's Diigo account, built up over several years: Click HERE.
- And this is the Diigo homepage if you want to start your own account. Personally, we think it's brilliant.
We are the Whittaker Library, helping our performing artists and technicians access and organise the information they need for their teaching and learning.
FAVOURITES? Did you hear us say that the supposedly impartial music librarian has favourites?
Relax! These are favourite websites, not favourite borrowers, because of course we love you all equally.
Karen saves her favourite websites to Diigo, so she can share them with you later. However, when there's a lot of cataloguing and not as much time, it seems more sensible to share them all at once. So as a special treat, you're being granted a peek into the music librarian's recently favourited finds.
Click here for a whole batch of useful links on:-
- The E T Bryant Memorial Prize for early career music librarians
- An extinct stringed instrument - a mini cello played under your chin!
- The British Library Mechanical Curator - quality free historical images
- MAPCO historical maps
- Glasgow University Library's Incunabula project (very rare books)
- The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Teaching Artist course
- Life beyond the PhD
- and much, much more!
Where are your favourites stored? On a device or in the cloud? Whittaker likes cloud-based Diigo, so that's the first favourite link to share today:-
The fact that there's an android app (PowerNote) which syncs with Diigo is of course a powerful incentive to use it all the more.
Evernote is another useful tool, to keep track of all manner of action-lists and memos:-
But let's get back to those favourites. Whittaker's recent Diigo links include these:-
- Burns Scotland - http://www.burnsscotland.com/ (does what it says, authoritatively and without kitschy tartan gimmickry)
- Book Riot - a blog about books - http://bookriot.com/
- Scottish Music Centre - Opportunities and Competitions page:- http://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/competitions/
- Khan Academy - have you heard about 'Flipping the classroom'? Online teaching using YouTube and student-led learning, as advocated by Salman Khan:- https://www.khanacademy.org/ (The Whittaker Library is buying Khan's book - we'll tell you when it arrives.)
- Fresh on the Net - share your tracks here! http://freshonthenet.co.uk/submit/ Tom Robinson tells you about the scheme here:-
"This blog grew up out of a radio show called BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net
(read more) which I hosted on BBC 6 Music from October 2007 to April
2012. Through the show I encountered many gifted individuals who shared
my enthusiasm for new music and a dozen of them have now joined me here
online under the name Team Freshnet.
Our mission remains the same: to promote independent music making in
all it forms – and to connect listeners with new music and musicians
with new listeners."
