NASIG’s first Vision Session (aka plenary session) featured Robin Sloan of Current TV. The description was intriguing: “…Media is becoming digitized and disaggregated, free to float across the internet and get downloaded and uploaded, blogged and sold, pirated and appreciated, remixed and reimagined…. So what about libraries and scholarly communication?…” What I didn’t realize until …
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There’s a lot of talk about “keeping up” in the profession these days. In addition to traditional journals and low-tech ways of learning like conference and workshop attendance, library blogs are proliferating and online conferences of both the free and pay variety seem to be catching on. With so many options just within the library …
An April 19th article in Information Week discusses the rise in the use of mobile phones to access the web. The trend is stronger in Japan than either the United States or Canada (no surprise there); nevertheless, over one quarter of mobile users have used their phones to access the internet, according to the article. …
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National Geographic has the story about a real-life Wallace and Gromit were-rabbit situation. This seemed like a good inaugural use of the “diversions” category, which I promise to use very sparingly.
Microsoft has launched Windows Live Academic. According to the site it “currently indexes content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas.” The results interface has some interesting features, including a split panel that shows results on the left and an abstract or more info about one citation on the right, as …
One of the best presentations I attended at Computers in Libraries was the Cool Tools update presented by Frank Cervone from Northwestern University and Darlene Fichter from University of Saskatchewan. The complete title was “Cool Tools for Webmasters,” but many of the tools they discussed were more general than the title implies. They covered tools …
You may be familiar with Wikipedia, but you might not know about many other wikis. Are wikis just for geeks, or are they being used by the wider web world? The Eastwikkers blog is highlighting 33 wikis in 33 days, showcasing all sorts of wikis: Flu Wiki, This Might Be a Wiki (They Might Be …
Welcome to Ab’s blog, a place for me to share information about technology and libraries with BU library staff. My goal is to provide links, information, and some analysis about library tech stuff. In the past I have occasionally done this via e-mail, but a blog seems like a less intrusive and more useful way …
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