Combining Service Oriented Architecture with a Single Business Approach
This month I've come across one great article and one great report on Service Oriented Architectures. The first came from Sally Rogers at Ohio State Univers...
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DLTJ Now Running on Wordpress 2.1
DLTJ was upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 tonight. Everything looks good so far; please let me know if you disagree...
What Librarians Could Learn From Journalists
On Tuesday, the Poynter Institute (a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists) released results of their EyeTrack07 study &mda...
NDIIP Funding Statement by the Librarian of Congress
Early last month I mentioned what was happening to NDIIP funds with the impending passage of what became Public Law 110-5 [PDF] and posted a copy of a letter...
Survey on Digital Preservation Systems is Seeking Respondents
There are just a few days left to respond to the "International Digital Preservation Systems Survey" being run by Karim Boughida and Sally Hubbard from the G...
Can You Hear Me Now? DLTJ as a Podcast
Update 19-Jan-2011: I've decommissioned this service. Talkr seems to be unavailable, and I haven't had time to find a replacement. If reading the thoughts o...
A Report on Namespaces Used by OAI-PMH Repositories
I had a need for a survey of the metadata namespaces used by OAI-PMH repositories, so I wrote up a quick shell script and XSLT style sheet to parse through t...
“Draft Principles for Digitized Content” from the Digitization Policy Task Force of ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy
A note on the LITA-L mailing list from M. Claire Stewart (a member of the American Library Association Office of Information Technology Policy Task Force on ...
Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the U.S.
As others have noted, there is now an online petition in support of public access to publicly funded research in the United States. The text of the petition...
What are /you/ planning on doing when the Bird Flu hits?
This could easily go in the "Disruption in Libraries" category of DLTJ, but it is a disruption of a different sort. Are you making contingency plans to cont...
Resource for Improving Higher Education Instruction
A few months back I referred to a project that used video to present information about accessibility needs in the classroom. That article was about how diff...
Do I Want to be a Warrior in ALA’s Battle?
Today I received an e-mail from ALA asking me to renew my membership. An excerpt of the e-mail is included below. There is a confrontational tone in the me...