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, [...]
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Reading posts on one of my listservs today I discovered a new use for web server logs. Our library implemented the ILLiad interlibrary loan system about a year ago. Since that time our overall number of ILL requests has increased. The staff has recently began to question whether or not users are utilizing the materials [...]
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Posted in Library Systems on Jun 30th, 2004 No Comments »
So I've been asked to put together a syllabus for a class on Information Technologies in Libraries and was wondering if my readers had any thoughts on what topics they think should be included. right now I am thinking about the following possibilities:Web Technologies -Static page technologies -Dynamic page technologiesXMLSecurityWireless TechnologiesDatabasesPrivacy IssuesE-referenceWeb-based InstructionProxy-ServersNetworkingOpen Source SoftwareIntegrated [...]
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DOCTYPE Dilemmas
Haven't got a clue what a DOCTYPE is or not sure is yours is right? Then you need to check out, Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE! by Jeffrey Zeldman. This article discusses what a DOCTYPE is and why if your (X)HTML page has an incorrect or missing DOCTYPE your pages might not [...]
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So I have been meaning to get this more in depth post about web server logs up last week. However, I caught a fierce cold last week and have been reeling ever since. But I final have my act together and have found some good and inexpensive tools for doing web server log analysis. Check [...]
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Okay, this is today's rant. Why can't two web servers (both IIS with the same version of the Microsoft XML parser) ever work the same? So I wrote this nifty piece of code that would display an RSS feed as part of a web page and tested it. Works great in my test environment, but [...]
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