Posted in Library Systems, RSS on Jan 25th, 2005 No Comments »
SIRSI and RSS
Like many folks last week I was really excited when Jenny posted about
SIRSI's offering RSS feeds out of the catalog. The of idea that a
library vendor is catching on to this idea is very hopeful. However,
like Dave
I am still a wee bit skeptical. The idea that this may have to be an
add-on with [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
The Open Source Revolution
I scurried down the stairs this afternoon to get the mail and
discovered that my latest issue of Wired magazine had arrived. Guess
what was on the cover? Firefox! The article in Wired is entitled “The
Firefox Explosion” and discusses the impetus behind Firefox and the
story behind its recent success. If you know nothing about [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Whoops! DSpace on the brain.
I made a major error in my previous post talking about photo-sharing sites.
I meant to say that my photos are hosted at Pbase not DSpace. I've had
DSpace on the brain of late. I've been doing some investigating of
DSpace and SUNY has a new shared DSpace instance that I have been
working to [...]
Posted in Library Systems on Jan 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Library Systems as Services
Lorcan Dempsey has a good post
on his weblog talking about he idea of library systems (metasearch,
resolver, e-reserves, ERM, ILL) being delivered as services. Recently,
I started advocating that consortia should look into become ASPs
(application service providers) for some of these systems. Centralizing
this type of support has the potential to
yield tremendous cost savings. Additionally, [...]
Posted in RSS on Jan 21st, 2005 No Comments »
RSS Incompatibility Issues
Recently, I found an interesting post
that discussed the incompatibility issues that exist within RSS. This
is a topic that I am not alltogether unfamilar with because about a
year ago I started playing with incorporating RSS feeds into my site.
The problem with this is that not all RSS feeds are alike. There are a
multitude of [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Photo Sharing Sites
There is a nice little article over at Wired about
photosharing sites. This is something that I have started doing
relatively recently and it was interesting to learn about the different
sites available to share photos. I use a site called DSpace which is
rather simple. Many others use Flickr.
If you haven't started sharing photos and want [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Bloglines Improvements
Often I use Bloglines to compose posts for my weblog then copy them
over to Radio later. This is for several reasons. First, I can't access
Radio from work Second, I do my news reading in Bloglines and it is
often easier to grab stuff from there and add it to a post this way.
One thing that [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Tech Toys
I am such a sucker for technology toys and I got a nifty one this
week for my birthday. A webcam! I've never had one before and thought
that having one would be neat. I could send videos to my mom and video
conference with some people I know. I tried it out today by video
AIMing Michael [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 16th, 2005 No Comments »
Brillant Bookmarklets
I'm a pretty savvy web surfer and techie geek but it still takes me a
while to catch on to some things (ie find a use for them). Until
recently bookmarklets were one of those things. I've known what they
were for quite a while but couldn't really see the use in them. Maybe
it was that I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 15th, 2005 No Comments »
Strategic Partnerships
I've been working on examining and evaluating federated search tools for SUNY Cortland. So this post on Library Technology Guides
was of great interest to me. Apparently, Serial Solutions is partnering
with WebFeat. Considering that I was going to look at both of these
vendors' tools for federated search this is big news. This partnership
is likely to [...]
