DIY up and running
It has taken about a week off and on to get all the pieces in place: installation of the scanner, software installation, camera calibration, three days lost while we waited… Read more »
Category: MARS
Moving Forward with Backing Up
If you have sysadmin duties in a library like Mason’s (where our core technologies actually reside in the library and not the computer center), backing up is one big part… Read more »
DSpace and Omeka
I continue thinking about how to exploit a user-friendly tool like Omeka to enable library staff to build inviting exhibitions of digital objects—more particularly, those stored in our MARS (DSpace)… Read more »
Omeka goes public
Mason’s Center for History and New Media announces the release of Omeka – a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed as a solution… Read more »
Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences mandates Open Access
Yesterday Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to require faculty to make copies of their research freely available through the Office of Scholarly Communications. You can read the proposal… Read more »
New Year’s Grabbag
A number of small items to help break the 2008 writer’s block… Annoying Leopard Print Spooler If you’ve upgraded from Tiger to Leopard you may be seeing this problem: you… Read more »
Shhhh….Theory Testing In Progress
It is such a pleasure to work with people as smart and creative as Dan Cohen over at the Center for History and New Media. Yesterday’s announcement (read about it… Read more »
“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave…”
Earlier today my news reader let me know that Dorothea had posted a preprint of her forthcoming article from Library Trends, so I hopped over to MINDS@UW and grabbed a… Read more »
That’s a surprise
I went to the dspace.org website this afternoon to check on something and was surprised but happy to see a story about VuFind on the opening page I quickly hit… Read more »
Xena 4.0
Xena 4.0 has just been released and although the SourceForge site suggests it only runs on Windows or Linux, it does just fine on OSX as well (after all, it’s… Read more »