Presentation tools
Here are two tools I recently stumbled across. Each might prove useful when putting together a presention. OmniGraphSketcher Omnigroup made news a few weeks ago by releasing OmniWeb, OmniDiskSweeper and… Read more »
Category: Library Tech
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 »
Off-campus access improved
Just a short note to alert Mason affiliates that we’ve changed our database gateway service (aka our proxy server) in ways that should open up service for those of you… Read more »
Dewey believe this?
Saw a recent post on the DSpace list, asking about the use of the Dewey Decimal system to help organize a DSpace installation. The writer wondered if there were plans… Read more »
TicToc
This is worth a serious examination (and I realize it may have been all the pills on the interface that led me to that medical metaphor). ticTOCs is a newly-reworked… Read more »
More uncommon images
NYPL has joined the Flickr commons with 1300 images that tease us with the suggestion of what else might be coming. Unlike the earlier contributions from the Library of Congress,… Read more »
Light show
It fell to me to both create the slides and handle the equipment for the presentation a group of us did off-campus on Monday. The “handle the equipment” part meant… Read more »
Portals presentation at CNI
Yesterday, I was part of a group presenting Mason’s Research Portal project at CNI’s Fall 2008 meeting. Another member of my group counted 65 people in the audience which seemed… Read more »
Biznar, Federated Search and the Deep Web
Sent an exploratory note to DeepWeb Technologies the other day, asking if they’d tell me a little more about their product and give me some idea of what it might… Read more »
Linking to Google Books
This must be the month of the OPAC or something. Today I worked up a quick way to link from a book in our Voyager system to Google books via… Read more »