Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 30th, 2004 No Comments »
"IM the catalog
By Owen Stephens and Damyanti Patel
This is something that came up on The Shifted Librarian a little while ago. The idea of an Instant Messenger client as an interface to the catalog. I got this working for our catalog today using the Net::AIM perl module.
Getting it working was suprisingly simple in the end. [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 25th, 2004 No Comments »
I just realized that I forgot to post my pictures from Internet Librarian. Below are a few photos from IL 2004.
Librarian in Black (Sarah Houghton)
Jenny Levine (The Shifted Librarian) talks about RSS
Steven Cohen (Library Stuff) promoting weblogs
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 25th, 2004 No Comments »
The most recent hiatus at Library Web Chic has been due to the fact
that I have been taking some time off and visiting California post
Internet Librarian. I've been having a great time and will likely be
back posting next week. I've been taking lots of photos and wanted to
post some of them to the web easily [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 19th, 2004 No Comments »
Recap of Internet Librarian 2004
After taking a day off to visit the aquarium and drive down the coast
past Big Sur, I'm relaxed enough to reflect on my Internet Librarian
experience. I would have to say the best part about attending Internet
Librarian this year was meeting people. I had the opportunity to spend
some time with the library [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 17th, 2004 No Comments »
I survived
Well I just finished my presentation at Internet Librarian and I am
relieved that it is over. I think that it went well. I got lots of
questions and people asked me to show code which was somewhat
surprising. I was sort of afraid that it didn't go well because people
didn't seem very jazzed about it. [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 17th, 2004 No Comments »
Open Access Forum Notes
These are my notes from the Open
Access Forum on the last day of Internet Librarian. Open Access is a
hot topic and something I am preparing to start work on at SUNY
Cortland. Both from a perspective of linking to Open Access materials
and creating an OAI enabled archive.
What are we talking about when [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 17th, 2004 No Comments »
Internet Librarian Day 3
The keynote speaker today is Chris Sherman who is the co-author of
the
Invisible Web book with Gary Price and runs Search Engine Watch. He
talked about some of the trends in search and showed a variety of
tools. Some trends he talked about included:
Local search - (maps and yellow page type information)
not ready for primetime [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 17th, 2004 No Comments »
Internet Librarian Day 2
Lots of good sessions today at Internet Librarian. The day started with
seeing a presentation on Open source Library Automation Systems by
Edward Corrado. There were several different open source solutions
discussed including Koha, Emilda, PHPMyLibrary, Open Biblio, AvantiMicroLCS, PMB (phpmybibli), OPALS-NA, Learning Access ILS, Greenstone, and Evergreen.
The presentation was incredibly informative and it made [...]
Posted in BLeading Edge Thoughts on Nov 16th, 2004 No Comments »
Recent Projects
Jenny says that I need to write about what
I am doing with RSS and our web catalog. So I thought that I would post
a brief overview of my RSS, XML, library catalog exploits. Currently, I
have two RSS XML projects that I am working on. The first is an
XML-based blogging tool. By XML-based, I mean [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 16th, 2004 No Comments »
Internet Librarian Day 1
Today was the first day of Internet Librarian. According to the CEO of
the Information Today there are more than 1,000 conference attendees.
The thought of that makes me slightly nauseaous about giving my
presentation. There is the potential for there to be upwards of 200
people at my presentation, which freaks me out slightly.
Already [...]
