Peoples Cataloging
Stumbled across a really interesting project earlier today: The Commons. What a great idea. By putting their public photograph collections up on Flickr and then soliciting tagging by the universe… Read more »
Category: Library Tech
EZproxy sold
OCLC absorbed EZproxy into the collective yesterday. Why can’t I see this as great news? http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200690.htm Something tells me it would be prudent to download the EZproxy support website before… Read more »
New Year’s Grabbag
A number of small items to help break the 2008 writer’s block… Annoying Leopard Print Spooler If you’ve upgraded from Tiger to Leopard you may be seeing this problem: you… Read more »
Shhhh….Theory Testing In Progress
It is such a pleasure to work with people as smart and creative as Dan Cohen over at the Center for History and New Media. Yesterday’s announcement (read about it… Read more »
11 years ago
Going through some older documents today, I stumbled across an interesting URL. Imagine my surprise when I pasted it into my browser and got this back: Mason’s homepage from December,… Read more »
“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave…”
Earlier today my news reader let me know that Dorothea had posted a preprint of her forthcoming article from Library Trends, so I hopped over to MINDS@UW and grabbed a… Read more »
The Future of Bibliographic Control
Spent a bit of time today plowing through the recently released LC Working Group Draft Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control. It is an interesting document and I imagine… Read more »
Relax. It’s done.
I was poking around the web earlier today, doing a bit of research in preparation for my work on a consortial task force looking into “next generation library systems.” I… Read more »
Kindle – do not pass go
I’m always interested in e-readers, e-books and the idea that one of these days I’ll have an easy way to read books without carrying a lot of them around. So… Read more »
That’s a surprise
I went to the dspace.org website this afternoon to check on something and was surprised but happy to see a story about VuFind on the opening page I quickly hit… Read more »