Riding the Waves of Content and Change
Waves of change are crashing on the shores of the library profession. New media, new tools, new techniques, and new expectations collide to cause excitement,...
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A Note to ILS Vendors: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
In the course of putting together the JISC/SCONUL Library Management Systems Study, the authors interviewed the four major vendors of integrated library sys...
A “Vision for Development” – Excerpt from the JISC/SCONUL Study
As our profession re-examines itself and the services we provide to users, we seem to spend a great deal of time concerned about the way our "web front door"...
Collocating Serial Formats Via “Linking ISSN”
Earlier this week I received an e-mail from the director of the ISSN International Center announcing a session at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim to tal...
Selling Placement in Library Search Results
This morning's Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog has a story with the title "Should Colleges Sell Ads to Pay for New Technology?" that links to...
“Object Reuse and Exchange” Beta Specifications Now Available
Carl Lagoze of Cornell University and Herbert Van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the release of the beta form of the ORE specification...
Fixing a Mac OSX Leopard Login Loop Caused by Launch Services
After the release of the latest update to the Macintosh operating system (10.5.3), some users were reporting a "login loop" to MacFixIt.com. I followed the ...
“We are scanning them to be read by an AI.”
May 30, 2008Peter Murrayproduct Review of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google Find it in your library 0.3</div> Towards ...
Downloading the ALA Annual Meeting Planner to Your Mac iCal
First, kudos to the vendor that runs the ALA Meeting Planner website. They listened to suggestions and now include a way to download your event planner info...
Long-term Preservation Storage: OCLC Digital Archive versus Amazon S3
Last month OCLC announced a new service offering for long-term storage of libraries' digital collections. Called Digital Archive™, it provides "a secu...
JPEG2000 to Zoomify Code4Lib Lightning Talk Video Now Available
Thanks, Noel, and everyone else who made the video editions of Code4Lib 2008 presentations possible. I just had a chance to notice that the video from my JP...
Getting a Hyperlink of the Last Sent Message from Mail.app using Applescript
I’ve been a fan of Getting Things Done as a technique for managing projects, but it was only recently that I settled on OmniFocus as the “trusted system” col...