Beyond Federated Search Redux
It started with a post by Carl Grant on the Federated Search Blog: Beyond Federated Search – Winning the Battle and Losing the War?. I bookmarked thi...
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Audio Added to the New Directions for Discovering Information Presentation
Despite the problems I'm having with the slidecast function of SlideShare, I've gotten the results "good enough" to post. You can see and listen to the pres...
Open Library Environment Project Picks Up the Pace
Participants in the design phase of the OLE Project met in Lawrence, Kansas, earlier this month for a week-long work session. Coming out of the session are ...
Survey Responses Sought from the OCLC Review Board on Shared Data Creation and Stewardship
The OCLC Review Board on Shared Data Creation and Stewardship is conducting a survey to gather opinions on OCLC's proposed Policy for Use and Transfer of Wor...
New Directions for Discovering Information
I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2009 meeting of the Ohio Higher Education Computing Council (OHECC) on OhioLINK's plans for a new discovery layer. I...
FulfILLment from Equinox Selected for Statewide Resource Sharing System
This is an announcement posted by the State Library of Ohio regarding the selection of FulfILLment from Equinox for a statewide resource sharing system. OPEN...
On How Physical and Electronic Differ for Library Materials
I'm reading the notes from the Atlanta OLE Project regional workshop and right up at the top are these two statements that struck me as insightful. The firs...
Anatomy of the Zotero Library to RSS Feed Pipe
Note! A new feature on the Zotero website does away with the need to use this Yahoo! Pipe. RSS feeds are now generated by the Zotero website itself. Read ...
Can We Outsource the Preservation of Digital Bits?
A colleague forwarded an article from The Register with news of a new service from Iron Mountain for Cloud-Based File Archiving. It is billed as a "storage ...
Zotero Library to RSS Feed
Note! A new feature on the Zotero website does away with the need to use this Yahoo! Pipe. RSS feeds are now generated by the Zotero website itself. Read ...
What Does the Google Book Settlement Mean for the Online Book Market?
The blog post title is a serious question -- it is one that I need some help figuring out: What Does the Google Book Settlement Mean for the Online Book Mar...
Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship
Earlier this month a group of law schools released a statement promoting open access publishing of law school journals. Called the Durham Statement on Open ...