I’m not saying stereotyping is a good thing, let’s get that straight upfront. But if you sit down to watch network primetime with any member of the legal, medical, or forensic science professions, you will quickly learn that librarians aren’t the only group outraged by their treatment at the hands of the the media and …
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How Do You Know Whether You’re Early or Late?
The conventional wisdom in adopting new tech is “Neither an early adopter nor a latecomer be.” But in our ramped up “faster” world, how do you know when you’re one or the other? I think it was just last fall that I first learned about Facebook, and just this past spring that I started hearing …
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Ingenta Shares Holdings with Google Scholar
This little note was squeezed into the middle of an All My Eye entry about Ingenta at the Frankfurt Book Fair: We’ve been working closely with Google for over 2 years now, and the latest development is that we will be making our library holdings data available to Google Scholar’s Library Links program. The full …
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New Bird in Colombia
It’s my birthday, which means it’s time for another diversion. This guy (girl?), a Yariguíes brush finch, comes in my favorite colors and lives in “the last remnants of a remote Colombian cloud forest,” according to the National Geographic News article.
iPRES Conference
I said in my last entry that I planned to blog the Digital Preservation Management Workshop after the fact. Well, it’s going to take me a little while to process the wealth of information I learned (as represented by a 4″, completely full binder), so in this entry I’m skipping ahead to brief comments on …
Digital Preservation Workshop and Tutorial
I didn’t blog very much this month; the start of the school year is always a hectic time and we had what must have been a record number of technical problems with our e-resources. Besides that, I’ve been preparing for Cornell’s Digital Preservation Workshop, which requires completion of a pre-workshop tutorial and the reading of …
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D2D
D2D is the new thing, popping up recently on Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog and the program for NISO’s upcoming workshop. What is it? Simply an acronym for “discovery to delivery,” the process that a person goes through to get anything from a peer-reviewed research article to a new pair of Manolo Blahniks. Four steps are often …
Dramatically Improving People’s Lives
How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve people’s lives just by doing our job a little better? –Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think I love this quote! There are a lot of things I can’t control, but this makes me feel good simply about adding some alt text to a web page. In …
New Riders Titles for Web Librarians
Most of what I know about web design and development I’ve learned from New Riders books. I’m finally reading Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug, a book on web usability that practices what it preaches. (Those of you who have read the 1st edition might want to get hold of the new edition, which …
OPAL, Virtual Reality, and Academic Libraries
Looking for free or inexpensive continuing education opportunities? Check out OPAL, which describes itself as “an international collaborative effort by libraries of all types to provide web-based programs and training for library users and library staff members.” Most events are offered for free and past events are archived at the website. One upcoming event of …
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