Posted in Nifty Tools, Social Software on Oct 21st, 2006 3 Comments »
Gliffy is a nifty tool that Loomware - Crafting New Libraries highlighted. I got pretty excited about this because I like to make diagrams for my staff to look at to show how I want systems they are building to work. Typically, I need to share the diagrams with not only my staff but the [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 20th, 2006 No Comments »
Dorothea has two different posts about open access and library literature. The second one has some great advice for authors about making sure your stuff is available via open access. I have to admit I have an article in the same netConnect supplement of Library Journal as Dorothea and didn’t ask about the self-archiving issue [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve arrived safely in Monterey for Internet Librarian after a full day of travelling. The weather here is great and I had a nice walk to get a panini at Plumes Coffee for lunch. Now I need to doing a bit of work including uploading presentations to my blog.
Tomorrow afternoon I’m teaching a preconference workshop [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 18th, 2006 9 Comments »
So I spent some time today playing with Wordpress MU because I wanted to try it out and see how it compared with Movable Type as a multi-blog, multi-user blogging environment. We’ve been using Movable Type for blogging for the last year but for a number of different reasons (the biggest being we don’t have [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Getting the Goods: Libraries and the Last Mile - Roy Tennant
The ‘Last Mile’ Problem
Libraries have dealt better with description than delivery
Our system are ill-suited for online delivery
We have largely rested on our restrospective conversion and automation laurels
We are being overtake by other players (ie. Google)
We need the "two click solution" (Jeremy Frumkin)
We have far too [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
OurOntario:Yours to Recover - Art Rhyno, and Walter Lewis
OurOntario brings together content and contributed metadata from different sources including newspaper, audio, images, etc. Use Lucene to do this because Lucene is very good at bringing together seperate indexes. Also using Solr to look at facets. All allow Comment on Items (see Great Lakes Images collection [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
The Umlaut & U - Ross Singer
Current State of Link Resolvers
Conference Proceedings are problematic
Wariness to use extended services
Only shows items that are defined as part of the collection
Cannot integrate all resources possibily available to a user
Non-personalizable
Face of the Library in a Google Scholar environment
http://rsinger.library.gatech.edu/access2006
Drupal Hacks for Libraries - Mark Jordan
Drupalib - http://drupalib.interoperating.info/
Drupal for Scheduling Events [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 18th, 2006 2 Comments »
Library 2.0
open the library
push the library everywhere
engage with actual potential user communities
disaggregate library systems… and bring them together
shared innovation
Want to know more about Library 2.0?
Library 2.0 Wiki
Google Library 2.0
Talis is trying to nurture the discussion. Mashing up the Library Competition
John Blyberg - Go-Go-Google-Gadget (Library Catalog information into Google personal homepage)
Second Life Library 2.0 - [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 15th, 2006 No Comments »
I just got back from Access and am trying to get my things together to head off to Internet Librarian at the end of the week. Sorry folks, I haven’t had a chance to write up my notes yet. The short version though is that it was a fabulous conference and Ottawa is a great [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been playing around some more with TinyMCE so that I can get it to do what I want, both in Wordpress and as a WYSIWYG editor on our Content Management System. I get a little closer each day, but the process is slow. My stuggles have been with trying to get it to produce [...]
