Category Archives: Library Tech

iPhone / iTouch / Android enabled

Got an iPhone 3GS the other day (clearly I’m behind the mobile curve but then I hate talking on the phone so it took me a while to “get it”)…. Read more »

Catching Up

Yes, those are in fact cobwebs hanging from the corners.Â It’s not that I’ve been too busy to write something, just distracted, I guess. Vacation…a few other short trips…couple of… Read more »

History MetaFinder

It’s not ‘feature complete’ but our new Mason Metafinder is up and running. The idea is to build small federated search engines for our various research portals. My testbed has… Read more »

Did they used to have pencil labs?

We’re in the process of planning a new library for George Mason University, adding if I remember correctly, roughly 150,000 square feet to our existing main library building. At present,… Read more »

HathiTrust unveils “beta” catalog

New “beta” catalog to HathiTrust Digital Library. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/

OA begins at home…

I spent the better part of Tuesday working on a metasearch service that we’re adding to our award-winning research portals (just found out we’ve won an innovation award from a… Read more »

Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement

Recommended reading: Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement: “ This piece will appear in the July 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM. Readers may also… Read more »

Here are two tools I recently stumbled across.Â Each might prove useful when putting together a presention. OmniGraphSketcher Omnigroup made news a few weeks ago by releasing OmniWeb, OmniDiskSweeper and… Read more »

Catching Up

A few quick items to help bring things up to date: Netbook Experiment Had an idea the other day that instead of purchasing regular size notebooks for staff loaners (machines… Read more »