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 »
Category: Library Tech
VuFind redux
Grabbed a copy of VuFind Release Candidate 2 the other day and after a bit of work updating our original VuFind platform, we now have a shiny new installation (searching… 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 »
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. 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 »