Survey on Library Automation Trends
Marshall Breeding, editor of Library Technology Guides homepage, is conducting a survey on the trends in library automation. He describes the survey in a we...
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Aligning Clashing Values
This started out as a comment to a posting by Chris Coppola, president and co-founder of rSmart Group. The comment got longer and threaded with yesterday's ...
What Is BioMed Central?
My posting on Friday about the clashing values of academic institutions and businesses prompted a comment from Bill Hooker about linking to his blog posting ...
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...
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...