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...
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“iTunes U” for Libraries?
A recent posting in the Chronicle of Higher Education "Wired Campus" section describes the new iTunes U portal, "a spot on the site that will collect college...
Information Explorers versus Editors
A post by Bill Harris at "Dubious Quality" with the title Information got caught up in my Technorati filter for disruptive change in libraries. Geoff Engels...
Creating Participatory Digital Libraries
"Participatory Digital Libraries" is the name of a talk Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org, gave this morning at OCLC's Kilgour Auditorium. Known as "The P...
Survey on Library Professional Perceptions
Jenny Emanuel, Electronic Services Librarian at University of Central Missouri, posted an invitation to complete a survey on how library professionals think ...
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...
JPEG2000 for Digital Preservation
Last month was an interesting month for discussion and news of JPEG2000 as an archival format. First, there was a series of posts on the IMAGELIB about the ...
The Intersection of the Web Architecture with Scholarly Communication
Two previous posts on dltj.org have described the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) project and the theory behind what has become known as the 'Web Archite...
“Applying the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Model to Libraries” — A Presentation
There was a great crowd at the University of Windsor "Future of the ILS" symposium. The presentation is available from http://dltj.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
The Dis-integration of the ILS into a SOA Environment
This is part three of a continuing series on the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design pattern to library systems. In the first part...
Services in a Service Oriented Architecture
This post is the second in a series about the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) system design pattern to library services. The first po...
Defining “Service Oriented Architecture” by Analogy
This post is the first in a series over the next few days that in total will attempt to lay the groundwork for a discussion of applying the Service Oriented ...
Ohio Digital Commons for Education Conference Announcement
Where can faculty, administrators, librarians and technology gurus all meet to discuss learning, libraries, technology and the convergence of these activitie...
A Known Citation Discovery Tool in a Library2.0 World
When it comes to seeking a full-text copy of that known-item citation, are our users asking "what have you done for me lately?" OpenURL has taken us pretty ...
Just In Time Acquisitions versus Just In Case Acquisitions
What of a service existed where the patrons selected an item they needed out of our library catalog and that item was delivered to the patron even when the l...
Can Google be Out-Googled?
I have been heard to remark to other librarians on occasion a comment along the lines of "Don't fear Google; Don't Chase Google; Let's Out-Google Google!" ...
Appreciating our Heritage while Embracing a Future
Tom Wilson, LITA past president and all-around insightful LITA Top Technology Trendster, posted a commentary to the "Where have all the programmers gone?" p...
It’s All About User Services: A Summary and Commentary on the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting
What follows is a summary and commentary on the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting at ALA annual conference in New Orleans on 25-Jun-2006. What I've tried t...
Minutes of the FEDORA Workflow Working Group meeting of 18-Jun-2006
Please note -- this is a copy of the FEDORA Workflow Working Group minutes from the FEDORA Wiki. It is being posted here in order to get it into the blogos...
Disruption in Publishing
Last week's Chronicle of Higher Education Review had an opinion piece by Kate Wittenberg, director of EPIC (Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia) wit...
“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...
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...