“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 ...
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Downloading the ALA Annual Meeting Planner to Your Mac iCal
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Long-term Preservation Storage: OCLC Digital Archive versus Amazon S3
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JPEG2000 to Zoomify Code4Lib Lightning Talk Video Now Available
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The Jester Joins Twitter
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Schedule for ALA Annual 2008
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Discussions of Textbooks Hit the Mainstream Media
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Thumbgrabber: a metadata augmentation tool
In reading a background paper for the American Social History Online portal, I was reacquainted with a paper by Muriel Foulonneau, Thomas Habing and Tim Cole...
Getting the Word Out: LISWire and LISEvents
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