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 …
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Twitter – what’s the fuss?
I set up a Twitter account almost two years ago and then promptly let it languish. Until this week I had tweeted a grand total of maybe five times. I wasn’t sure why I needed it, and since hardly anyone followed me, I felt like I was talking to myself when I posted. But Twitter …
On joining the conversation again
I’m not much of a joiner. I don’t like bandwagons and I am highly suspicious of fanaticism. I was a late supporter of Obama – excuse me, President Obama! – for this reason: so many people were so into him. For similar reasons, it took me a while to figure out that I really liked …
Tee Hee
Do you want to see library blog posts about potatoes? Of course you do! Why the laughter? Folks, my posting has been so light I have to Google my Gmail for “wordpress” every time I want to login here, yet somehow I’m not last on the list.
Twittering
I think I first read about Twitter on Creating Passionate Users, but soon thereafter it started popping up on a lot of library blogs I read. I didn’t want to get crushed in the stampede, so I waited out the buzz until this weekend when I got talking about it with a friend and decided …
10 Technologies to Watch for 2007
Popular Mechanics has published a list of 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007. My favorites: data clouds (“you’re one step closer to retiring the original data storage device—the one in your head”) and smart pills (“could make a wide range of invasive procedures obsolete”).
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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Top Technology Trends
It’s that time of year again. Eric Lease Morgan has posted his trends at the LITA blog in advance of ALA. He touches on catalogs and cataloging, social software and social networking, and open source software, among other things.