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This section contains brief explanations and examples of new technology being used in libraries, and which we shall be making use of in the future.
Digital books are electronic versions of print books that exist only as electronic files. Some digital books are designed to be listened to (downloadable audio books) and others are created for on-screen reading (eBooks) on your computer monitor or other electronic device. They offer the convenience of 24/7 Internet access, searchable text, and adjustable type size. The largest supplier of free digital books and audio books is www.gutenberg.org
A University College Cork project, CELT, aims "to produce an online database of contemporary and historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts." It has a searchable online textbase consisting of almost 1,000 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including translations from Old Irish and Latin, literature and the other arts. Among the texts available are the Annals of the Four Masters, the Annals of Ulster, the Táin Bó Cúalnge, Jonathan Swift's writings, and many more. Click on:
CELT - Irish Electronic Texts
This is a little example of an Internet slideshow, provided by an application called SlideShare.
Press the "play" button (second from right below), to advance the slideshow.
The Library's account at SlideShare is called CatholicLibrary.
A short slideshow introduction to the concept of Web 2.0, with special attention to the importance of the user role, from Ellysa Cahoy of Penn State University. This is also provided by SlideShare.
An audio-only video (with a nice background image), available on YouTube, of Gregorian Chant.
An excerpt from Easter High Mass at St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Edinburgh (the sequence victimae paschali laudes followed by the Gospel). There are several full masses available on YouTube. The Library's channel is called CatholicLibrary.
The Library's Wiki URL is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Catholic_Library. The Wiki information will be updated as necessary.
Google Books are re-publishing old out-of-print books in downloadable online versions, and are providing previews with comments, reviews and so on, of contemporary books that can be ordered online. An example of the latter is Memento Mori, considered to be Dame Muriel Spark's greatest novel. The preview can be viewed here:
Google Books
We are currently evaluating FaceBook as a resource of library information and tools.
This site enables users to catalog their books online. We plan to use it to catalog our recent acquisitions. Our username is CatholicLibrary.
This site stores bookmarks and other information about websites. Our username is CatholicLibrary.
Other web applications are being evalued, for example, podcasts, and information will be placed here as soon as we have a presence on their sites.
Social Networking - FaceBook
LibraryThing
De.licio.us
Others
