Earlier this month, I went to the NISO Forum on library resource management systems, which was conveniently located right here in the Financial District of Boston. The program was fantastic, and the presentations are now available and well worth a look, even in slide format. A number of words, themes, and ideas resonated throughout the …
Category Archives: interesting ideas
Customer vs. container, content vs. service
Lots of interesting ideas floating around this week about the future of publishing, much applicable and relevant to libraries. First up, the Scholarly Kitchen’s blogging of the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s IN conference keynotes, with an interesting comment about “diffintermediation” in between. Keynote 1 by John Wilkins of Creative Commons Keynote 2 by John Maeda …
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Industry-Sponsored Professional Development
Back in March, I attended an “e-book summit” in Boston that was sponsored by Springer. Springer did a fantastic job of putting together a program of topics and speakers who touched on various aspects of e-book access and management. They included plenty of time for discussion and brainstorming among the attendees. The best part? Attendance …
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Peter Morville @ NASIG
Liveblogging Peter Morville keynote at NASIG Information Architecture – Combination of organization, labeling, search, navigation – art + science. Can learn from related fields like HCI but not sufficient. Still emerging discipline. Done by many people who don’t know the term. 3 common lessons for many of his clients: Multiple ways to find the same …
Newsflash: Librarians New “It” Girls
Librarians are totally the new “It” girls! Fred Flare says so.
LibraryThing UnSuggester
I’m fascinated by LibraryThing’s new UnSuggester, unveiled Sunday along with their “real” recommender system. UnSuggester gives you opposites instead of similar titles. For example, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky overlaps least with Daughters of the Moon by Lynne Ewing. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins overlaps least with Wild at Heart: Discovering the Passionate …
Portable New Yorker
Emdashes reports that the New Yorker will soon sell the Complete New Yorker on portable hard drive in addition to the DVD set already on sale. For $299 you get an installation CD and a portable 3″x5″ drive. Since $59.99 gets you the same coverage on DVD, I’m curious about their target audience with this …