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 »
Category: Desktop Software
Primo Searches
Eleven weeks in two things are clear: 1) use of Primo is increasing 2) researchers begin winding down a week before Spring Break and appear to need another week to… Read more »
What different sort algorithms sound like
from andrut: This particular audibilization is just one of many ways to generate sound from running sorting algorithms. Here on every comparison of two numbers (elements) I play (mixing) sin… Read more »
Fun with the 245 tag
Over the past few months I have, on more than one occasion, found myself making a full extract of the bibliographic (MARC) records in our library’s catalog. Turns out, this… Read more »
Anthologize it
My pragmatic friends over at the Center for History and New Media are at it again. This time, with support from National Endowment for the Humanities, they’ve come up with… Read more »
New Chrome beta for Mac
The latest Google chrome browser beta is making me rethink my ‘default browser’ choice. Â Two reasons: 1) The new V8 javascript engine is very quick. Â In fact, it wins this… Read more »
MarsEdit 3.0
This is just a short post…really nothing more than an excuse to try out the latest version of my blog editor of preference:Â MarsEdit 3.0. Released today, MarsEdit 3 adds several… Read more »
Mason Tweets
Earlier today a tweet from Dan Cohen pointed me to an interesting service offered by NC State: http://twitter.ncsu.edu/ They were nice enough to offer a link to their Zend-framework based… Read more »
OCR, Image/Text PDFs and the Mac
This week I’ve been staring at a collection of just over 29,000 PDFs. Image-only copies of thousands of documents created with “..the software that came with the scanner.” My task?… Read more »
Javascript speed
I’ve long thought that if you wanted the fastest browser experience on a Mac, you went with the nightly Webkit build from http://nightly.webkit.org/. So I was surprised today when I… Read more »