We Need To Talk about OER Discovery
Last November I was part of an Open Education Conference 2020 panel entitled “We Need To Talk about OER Discovery.” Six questions focused the discussion, with each panel member contributing… Read more »
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HathiTrust ETAS Activity
The Emergency Temporary Access Service provided to qualifying HathiTrust members has proven quite popular with George Mason University users. Here’s a chart showing item circulation by month, beginning April, 2020… Read more »
Final Data for our DNS Query project
Here’s the final set of numbers on our analysis of DNS query logs (detailed in an earlier post). Graph covers activity between July 3rd and December 9, 2019. This reflects… Read more »
Fun with our Traffic Counter’s API
We installed counters over all the entrances in Fenwick Library a while back. Smart little devices that offer an API as well. Click the image to check out this particular… Read more »
E-Content Usage Update for Fall 2017
We have no perfect way of assessing e-content usage by our students even though we’re now spending 75% or more of our collections budget on this sort of material. We… Read more »
The OER Metafinder Origin Story
I am a relative newcomer to the topic of OERs (Open Educational Resources). Not unaware of the topic—our Mason Publishing Group has been working with faculty interested in affordable educational materials for… Read more »
Dashboarding Google Analytics
One of our skunkworks projects involves taking real-time Google Analytics data and building a visually interesting dashboard to report out activity on various library sites. Click the image below to… Read more »
Three Social Media Library Services
A local library made news in 2010, announcing that it would archive every tweet ever posted. With Twitter generating 500 million tweets a day, can we really be surprised that it’s… Read more »
wget -> WARC
Had an email exchange yesterday with a group that wants to archive a few of their online web projects in our MARS system. Due to what I hope is a… Read more »
A few Library-related RSS feeds
Not long ago I started using my RSS reader again. As expected, my back-to-the-future fling with RSS found that many of my go-to feeds had shuttered in the intervening years, but… Read more »