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 »
Category: General
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 »
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 »
Comicbook Fonts
Without renumeration or discounts of any kind, I still feel a duty to do what I can to improve the look of  the web…and that means I should point out… Read more »
Summon™
Spent some time with Dartmouth University’s Summon™ installation the other day. Thanks to Dartmouth for making it available on the open web. And while I’m at it, I should also… Read more »
Cabin Fever Raises IQs?
During the recent snowstorms (aka Snowpocalypse), our libraries closed to the public from 3:30pm on a Friday afternoon until 8:00am the next Friday. Almost 7 full days. Fifteen years ago,… Read more »
Mechanical Turk as Collection Development Tool
Poking around Amazon’s Mechanical Turk today, I found this “HIT” (Human Intelligence Task) available to webworkers. The author/publisher is offering $4.00 if you request the book from your library (which… 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 »