From LJ‘s editorial today: Libraries are often ahead of most businesses and institutions in developing and using technology. Huh?
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Best of April Fool’s Day
Gorman AbdicatesBritannica Takeover of Wikimedia (oops, make that Wikimaedia)Scientific American Gives Up Opera P2P Revolution
Perils of Plagiarism
This is an absolutely fascinating story about plagiarism in the online world. The comments are revealing too. Why would you bother with plagiarism, asks one reader, “In a world with the ‘net, google, and Wikipedia? Why? A half-hour of searching and you have the basics of a researched paper.” From the Daypop Top 40
CIL Roundup
IM replacing VR … wikis … podcasting … converged devices … federated search … text messaging (chat, SMS) … iPods … RSS/blogs (duh!) … collaboration Favorite phrase: “the read/write web” from Will Richardson in his presentation about wikis Update 3/26: alesiamc asks “what are converged devices?” Think PDA + MP3 + phone + wireless + …
Firefox for Library Patrons
Ever since I discovered Mycroft I’ve been meaning to work on Mycroft search plugins for library resources. I’ve made a few but have shared them with only a few people. What other plug-ins, extensions, etc., can we develop for our patrons who use Firefox? The Google Scholar/SFX extension is an obvious one; some Canadians have …
iPods and Course Reserves
This post over at Tame the Web got me thinking about iPods and reserves. The ideas are really interesting. I don’t know how much reserve activity there currently is with music or images, but something like this could really increase it! Even if we didn’t circulate iPods, could we set things up so that students …
Acceptable Use of RFID in Libraries
RFID has gotten a bad reputation, mostly due to privacy concerns, but I think there are some items in our library that could really use RFID tags: Travel Mugs: Track down your mug next time it gets stolen or lost. No more excuses for bringing paper cups in. Food: Figure out who’s always “borrowing” your …
Google Maps
Google Maps: It may be beta but it’s pretty cool!
Have you used Opera lately?
I’ve had Opera on my computer for a while, but I don’t use it very often. Today I was reminded of why it’s so nice to have around: it’s the only one of the Big Four (big four IE alternatives, that is) to include a page zoom feature, and it can deliver a pretty good …
CiteULike
“CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading.”