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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • What EDUCAUSE's 2022 Top 10 IT Issues Mean for Libraries

    Last month, EDUCAUSE published its Top 10 IT Issues for 2022 with the subtitle "The Higher Education We Deserve". To reach the top 10, EDUCAUSE members were asked to prioritize 17 issues identified by the EDUCAUSE IT Issues Panel members. The members of the Issue Panel then broke up into …

     Posted on  December 05, 2021
     and last updated December 05, 2021
     ·  10 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Twitter Timeline Changes, Report on Future Library Technology, USB Security

    Two weeks in a row! This week's DLTJ Thursday Threads looks at how Twitter changed its timeline functionality to include things that it thinks you'll find interesting. Next, for the academic libraries in the audience, is a report from the New Media Consortium on trends and technologies that will libraries …

     Posted on  August 21, 2014
     and last updated August 21, 2014
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Local and Unique and Digital: A Evolving Trend for Libraries and Cultural Heritage Institutions

    These are slides and audio from presentation given at the LOUIS Users Group meeting, on October 4, 2013, in Baton Rouge, LA. The description of the talk was:

    Libraries have been digitizing materials for decades as surrogates for access to physical materials, and in doing so have broadened the range …

     Posted on  October 09, 2013
     and last updated October 10, 2013
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • New Web Expectations and Mobile Web Techniques

    Late last year I was asked to put together a 20-minute presentation for my employer (LYRASIS) on what I saw as upcoming technology milestones that could impact member libraries. It was a good piece, so I thought I'd share what I learned with others as well. The discussion was in …

     Posted on  January 26, 2011
     and last updated January 27, 2011
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Ebooks in Libraries, Prognostications for the Year, Open Source Adoption, Public Domain Day

    The turn of the year brings commentary on the past 12 months and thoughts on the future. This edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads looks at the relationship between libraries and electronic books with an offer by Sony to explain e-reader hardware to libraries and an opinion piece that libraries need …

     Posted on  January 06, 2011
     and last updated January 06, 2011
     ·  10 minutes reading time