What are they e-reading? (2011)
Based on usage, here are the ten most popular e-books in our Safari Online Books collection for 2011. Each title includes [number of accesses during the year]. In total,… Read more »
Author Archives: Wally
What are they e-reading?
I often wonder who reads the e-books we link into our catalog. While I love reading on my Kindle I can’t go more than few “pages” into a web-based e-book… Read more »
What happens to the mid-major library?
I was listening to the latest Digital Campus podcast on my way home yesterday when the discussion began to hit close to home… Talking about a day in the maybe… Read more »
Life imitates Art
Speaking of librarianship and technology (as happens here from time to time), I want to highlight a couple of signs from the rally down on the Mall this past weekend…. 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 »
what they’re reading…
Extracted the titles from readings our faculty have placed in our e-reserves system this semester, removed terms like “Chapter” and “Ch.”, normalized case and fed the result into Wordle. Just… Read more »
Backups
It was once common for newspapers to reprint an important article from time to time. Of course, this was before Google and in those days it wasn’t all that easy… 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 »
A few year-end statistics
The fiscal year ended July 1 so it seems a good time to report some of the numbers we saw over the past year (July 1, 2009 – June 30,… Read more »