We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore
Welcome to the Disruptive Library Technology Jester. From here you can browse the musings and visions of a library technologist as he walks the fine line between the best of the library profession on one side and the best of technology on the other.
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A few months back I referred to a project that used video to present information about accessibility needs in the classroom. That article was about how difficult it is to create markup for embedded video that is universally accessible and valid HTML. Late last month the larger project that used that work was released. Called the Faculty & Administrator Modules in Higher Education, or FAME, it is a professional development tool for use in higher education with information on how college faculty, administrators, disability service providers, and students can work individually and collaboratively to improve the accommodations, teaching-learning process, and overall campus environment for students with disabilities. The content on the website is broken up into five modules:
This is a preview of Resource for Improving Higher Education Instruction. Read the full post (434 words, 1:44 minutes estimated reading time)
Today I received an e-mail from ALA asking me to renew my membership. An excerpt of the e-mail is included below. There is a confrontational tone in the message that is very off-putting and also resonates with the reasons why I dislike ALA. My own emphasis added:
Thank you for this past year of ALA Membership. Your membership year ends April 30, 2007 and we invite you to renew online today.
This is a preview of Do I Want to be a Warrior in ALA’s Battle?. Read the full post (736 words, 2:57 minutes estimated reading time)
Well, something is still going wrong on dltj.org — despite previous performance tuning efforts, I’m still running into cases where machine performance grinds to a halt. In debugging it a bit further, I’ve found that the root cause is an apache httpd process which wants to consume nearly all of real memory which then causes the rest of the machine to thrash horribly. The problem is that I haven’t figured out what is causing that one thread to want to consume so much RAM — nothing unusual appears in either the access or the error logs and I haven’t figured out a way to debug a running apache thread. (Suggestions anyone?)
This is a preview of Killing Off Runaway Apache Processes. Read the full post (394 words, 1:35 minutes estimated reading time)
Last month was an interesting month for discussion and news of JPEG2000 as an archival format. First, there was a series of posts on the IMAGELIB about the rational for using JPEG2000 for master files. It started with a posting by Tom Blake of Boston Public Library asking these questions:
What can I do with a JPEG200 that I can’t do with a TIFF, a good version of Zoomify, and a well-designded DAMS?
Don’t you need to rely on a proprietary version/flavor of JPEG2000 and a viewer to utilize its full potential?
This is a preview of JPEG2000 for Digital Preservation. Read the full post (982 words, 3:56 minutes estimated reading time)
