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Jester Site Was Broken; Fixed Now

An attempt to upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.3 a few days ago resulted in the Wordpress installation being blown away. It is hard to tell whether it was my fault or a bug in Gentoo’s webapp-config, but in either case it is back now.

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2006 06 13 Comments Off

“Have you seen AccessMyLibrary?”

I got a note recently from a colleague with the subject “Have you seen AccessMyLibrary?”:

This is a Thomson Gale new thing: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/. I clicked on the link under the search box to view a list of publications, and then tried to drill down to a specific article. It identified me by zip code automatically, presented me with a map and a list of local public libraries so I could select mine, and then asked for my library card number. I plugged in my withheld library card number, and it came back with the full text of the article. It only works for those patrons of libraries who have subscribed to Thomson Gale’s proprietary Remote Patron Authentication system, but the aim is to put the discovery tool in front of the users on the open web. Then if they drill down far enough they either get the article via their library’s subscription or are given the option of plugging in a credit card number to pay for it.

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2006 04 26 Comments (0)

Updated Disruption in Libraries Bibliography; New Location

I’ve moved the bibliography of the theory of disruptive innovation as applied to libraries and higher education to a new location. If you are reading this posting directly from the DLTJ website, you’ll also find it linked under the “about” header as “bibliography”.

The bibliography has also been updated to include the new (to me) paper mentioned on Monday and David Lewis’ presentation to the OhioLINK directors last week.

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