“Is the Writing On The Wall?” — Take 2
Walt Crawford chided me — rightly so — for yesterday's Is the Writing on the Wall for the Integrated Library System? post. My choice of language...
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Is the Writing on the Wall for the Integrated Library System?
While in UNC-CH for JCDL I've had occasion to rant with/at some people about the state of the integrated library system marketplace — including, of cou...
“Cautiously Optimistic”
During the cookies and lemonade break during JCDL this afternoon I surprised one of the well-respected elders of the field with this question: are we really...
For the record, I did attend JCDL2006
If you look along the right-most row in this picture, about midway vertically in the shot, you can see someone in a cream-colored shirt with an Apple lap...
Librarians as Gatekeepers
The plenary session of JCDL this morning was Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard Law School and University of Oxford) entitled "Open Information: Redaction, Restricti...
JCDL2006 Monday Brain Dump
JCDL is ranking high one of the most useful (and when not useful one of the most interesting) meetings I've attended. This is my first time here, and althou...
Jester Site Was Broken; Fixed Now
An attempt to upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.3 a few days ago resulted in the Wordpress installation being blown away. It is hard to tell whether it was my fault ...
Evergreen Goes Beta, Signals the End of the World As We Know It
I've got a ton of work to do, but I couldn't let this announcement from Brad LaJeunesse via Dusty Gres on Pub4Lib via Karen Schneider on the newNGC4LIB list ...
Who Said You Couldn’t Catalog the Internet?
I seem to remember, in the early heady days of the internet, there was a cry from the library profession to "Catalog the Internet" -- to create descriptive r...
Fedora Advanced Applications Panel at JCDL2006
I am excited almost beyond description to be sharing a panel with Sandy Payette (Cornell University, USA), Andrew Treloar (Monash University, Australia), Mat...
Client JAR for FEDORA Server Access
At OhioLINK we've reached the conclusion that coding would be easier if we created a modestly robust JAR file that is an implementation of the AXIS-based web...
OhioLINK Mentors Three Students in the Google Summer of Code
OhioLINK is pleased to mentor three students working on projects for Ohio's higher education and libraries around the world during the Google Summer of Code ...