A Great iPad Keyboard/Case Combination: New Trent Airbender
This is a review of the Airbender Bluetooth keyboard by New Trent (model IMP38W). I have been testing this unit since January 28, 2013, and traveled with it ...
Recent posts
ResourceSync Specification Draft Published for Comment
ResourceSync -- a joint effort of NISO and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) team with work funded by the Sloan Foundation -- has published a draft specific...
Interesting Shibboleth Use Case: Enforcing Geographic Restrictions
Last month's HathiTrust newsletter had an interesting technical tidbit at the top about access to out-of-print and brittle or missing items: One of the lawfu...
Trip Report of DPLA Audience & Participation Workstream
On December 6, 2012, the Audience and Participation workstream met at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. About ...
Trip Report of DPLA Chattanooga Appfest: Project Shows Signs of Life
Below is my report of the DPLA AppFest last month. This post is the raw input of an article on the IMLS blog that was co-written with Mary Barnett, Social M...
Model Language on Library Data Ownership
In September, Carl Grant wrote a blog post on the ownership of library data ("We have a problem... another vendor appearing to need education about exactly W...
The Security Implications of Teaching Librarians to Program
Should librarians be learning to how to develop software? This theme has come up in the past few years ((Going back to Karin Dalziel’s 2008 Why every ...
What You’ll Find in My Twitter Stream
Earlier this month I found myself apologizing for some errant tweets that ended up in my Twitter stream ((The problem turned out to be a forgotten automatic ...
Libraries as Provisioner, Quartermaster, and Curator
Yesterday I heard Catherine Murray-Rust give a keynote at the Georgia Knowledge Repository workshop. She used the phrase, and I think I transcribed this cor...
ALA Virtual Conference Includes Talk on Open Source in Libraries
ALA has its "Virtual Conference" coming up on July 18th and 19th. It is two days of at-your-desktop talks on some of the most interesting topics in librarie...
Kids Birthday Parties in Libraries?
Do public libraries host birthday parties for children as part of their programming? I was with my son at a party for one of his friends a local bouncy infl...
My ALA Anaheim 2012 Schedule
It is that time of year again where representatives from the library profession all gather for the annual Annual Library Association meeting. This year it i...