Revision Proposed to ORE Atom Serialization
Last Friday, Herbert Van de Sompel posted a message to various mailing lists about a proposed revision to the serialization of OAI-ORE into Atom. The propos...
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Registration Open for BarCampOhio/LibraryCampOhio (August 11, 2008)
Download iCal file Registration is open for the BarCampOhio/LibraryCampOhio meeting on Monday, August 11th from 10am to 5:30pm at the OCLC Co...
Final Version of the Higher Education Reauthorization Act Leaves Textbook Provisions Intact
Earlier this week U.S. Senate passed its own version of the "College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007" (H.R.4137 to amend and extend the Higher Educ...
Video Tour of OPAC Discovery Layer Tools
In March, I gave a presentation at the NISO forum on Next Generation Discovery Tools: New Tools, Aging Standards. For those that were there, you may remembe...
BarCampOhio and LibraryCampOhio, August 11, 2008
Download iCal file Announcing the BarCampOhio/LibraryCampOhio meeting on Monday, August 11th from 10am to 5:30pm at the OCLC Conference Center in Dublin, OH....
HOWTO Deal With Spam as a Mailman List Owner
Dealing with SPAM e-mail is a real hassle. Dealing with SPAM e-mail as a mailing list owner is an even bigger hassle. Here are some tips for dealing with S...
On the Internet, How Do You Know If You Are Talking to a Dog?
Published in The New Yorker July 5, 1993.Image from The Cartoon Bank The famous 1993 cartoon from The New Yorker has the caption “On the Internet, nobo...
Colorado Community College System Announces Flat-price Electronic Textbooks from Pearson Education
Colorado Community College System (CCCS) signed an agreement with Pearson Education for flat-rate access to Pearson textbook content online. News of this co...
The Complex World of the Textbook
Who knew the college textbook marketplace could be so complex? The agents in this ecosystem and their interests are so intertwined that as a whole it poses ...
Archiving in Practice with JPEG2000: ALA Annual Conference, June 29, 8am-10am
Download iCal file The JPEG2000 in Archives and Libraries Interest Group of the LITA division of ALA is pleased to present a program on Archiving in Practice...
A Catalog for the “Next Generation” or the Current Generation?
Are we building the "next generation" catalog for us (librarians) or our users? As a read a report from the Next Generation Summit Search Interface Working ...
ALA Annual Goes Social
The American Library Association annual conference is getting more social each year, and as a long-time member of ALA and often a critic of the, well, un-tog...