Educational Patents, Open Access Journals, and Clashing Values
This posting has two goals -- first, to introduce DLTJ readers to the notion of "Educational Patents" or "edupatents" and provide an update on events of this...
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PocketModMac: MacOSX PocketMod Generator Via Print Dialog
This one goes out to all of the MacOS X users out there. (For the rest of you, why aren't you switching?) Perhaps you have seen PocketMod -- the origami-li...
Gentoo Abandons WordPress in Portage
I don't think this has been widely announced, but while waiting for an update to Gentoo's portage entry for WordPress to cover the latest security and bug fi...
NPR’s Headquarters
NPR's Headquarters, looking east Side view of the triangular building, looking from Mt. Vernon Square. The DC Convention Center is just to the north of ...
JPEG XR Could Be Neat, but JPEG2000 is Still Neater
On Tuesday, the Joint Photographic Expert's Group (a.k.a. "JPEG") announced a new work item for the standardization of Microsoft's HD Photo as JPEG XR (XR is...
SOLINET’s Collective Vision of the Future of Libraries
Library Journal reports on the results of discussions among SOLINET ((SOLINET is the Southeastern Library Network, Inc. -- a not-for-profit multi-type librar...
Call for Participation in Meredith Wolfwater’s Biblioblogosphere Survey
Meredith Farkas is conducting a survey of those in the library and information science profession who blog: After two years [since completing the first Surve...
OhioLINK Position available: Systems Developer
The Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) is seeking an energetic, creative individual to participate in the creation and maintenance of our intern...
“Show Me The Code!!!” -or- It Isn’t Open Source Until We Can See the Source
There are days that I feel like Tom Cruise. No, I have no idea what it is like to be married to Nicole Kidman or Katie Holmes and I don't have the secrets...
Open Library Demonstration Screencast
Earlier this week, Aaron Swartz of the Internet Archive announced the demonstration website of the Open Library project, a new kind of book catalog that brin...
Article-Level OAI-PMH Harvest Available from DOAJ
Earlier this year the DOAJ began offering a new schema for registered articles that significantly improves the value of OAI-PMH harvested article content. P...
Automating Withdrawn Actions: Maximixing the Long Tail of Acquisitions
Libraries place a good deal of emphasis on collection development policies -- a written statement of a library's intentions for building its collection. It ...