Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 26th, 2005 No Comments »
A week and a half ago I had a chance to attend Eric Lease Morgan’s workshop on Open Source Software in Libraries. The workshop was very informative and neat because it focuses on demonstrating open souce tools in action. I had the opportunity to play with Apache on a Windows machine. Use tools like Yaz, [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 20th, 2005 3 Comments »
I’m working the night reference shift again and it is nearing the end of the semester. Not surprisingly the library is busy. However, much of the activity is not at the reference desk. Tonight has been a pretty good evening question-wise, but the majority of people are not visiting the desk. Most are working on [...]
Posted in RSS on Apr 20th, 2005 1 Comment »
I noticed this evening that Bloglines hasn’t picked up my posts from yesterday yet. So I checked Sherri Vokey’s blog ::schwagbag:: (because she pointed the problem out to me before) to see if Bloglines was picking up the feed properly for it. Alas, it is not. Bloglines seemed to go through a period of having [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 20th, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve been following an array of improvements that have been made to Skype over the last month or so as well as future developments Skype is working on. A couple neat things they have done are allowing Skype users to pay to have voicemail and non-computer users to have a virtual number with Skype that [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 20th, 2005 1 Comment »
I finally got Jybe installed again at work. I think I may have installed it at home and promptly forgot my password. I tried getting the password reset but alas not luck. So I created another account for myself with a different email address and now have it installed. I really want to try it [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 19th, 2005 No Comments »
Technology Review has a neat article about ten emerging technologies. The emerging technology that I found the most interesting was called “universal memory”. The article talks about the development of a new type of memory that
could eventually allow vastly greater amounts of data to be stored on computers and mobile devices. Experts estimate that [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 19th, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve been working for the last three weeks on assessing our current electronic resources (databases) and preparing a budget proposal for what we will subscribe to next year. Via this process I’ve learned quite a lot because I’m pretty new to the electronic resources game. There are a few things I’d like to share. First, [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 18th, 2005 No Comments »
I was shocked to see a link on Dave’s blog to a post about Macromedia and Adobe merging. Part of me is enthusiastic about this possibility because Adobe has always been very supportive of Macs and worked well and Macs and I’m a big Macromedia fan and some of the Macromedia software I want to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 18th, 2005 1 Comment »
Today a representative from HW Wilson came to visit and demo some of their products for our library. We have been considering switching some databases that we subscribe to to different vendors in order to gain some cost savings. There were some things that I really liked about what I saw in the Wilson interfaces. [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 14th, 2005 2 Comments »
I noticed that there was a question about authenticating users from off campus via on the Web4Lib mailing list today and it got me thinking that we have EZProxy set up a little different from some other SUNYs and I didn’t know if others had tried setting things up this way. So I wanted to [...]
