I’m extending the day in the life meme due to a highly unusual server outage last week, now happily resolved. a.m. Arrive work, boot up, open twhirl, im, calendar, and e-mail. review mail and check a few feeds while eating breakfast. i almost never want breakfast when i get up and usually eat at my …
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Define
Top 10 Google suggestions when I type “define:” love conservatism culture socialism ethics integrity leadership twitter irony agnostic One of these things is not like the others…
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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Carol Tenopir @ NASIG
Liveblogging Carol Tenopir’s keynote “Measuring the Value of the Academic Library: Return on Investment and Other Value Measures” Carol reports that she did not participate in the Fun Run/Walk at 6:30 a.m. We’re facing the challenge of demonstrating our value to stakeholders. Economy adds to this by pressuring budgets, combine w/ perceptions of library as …
KBART Update @ NASIG
Liveblogging Peter McCracken’s update on KBART OpenURL overview: evolution from magic to sausage making in how it is implemented and how information gets passed around. when the link resolver fails it affects the user’s perception of the tool bad data, bad formatting, lack of knowledge what is the measure of success? better access, fewer false …
ONIX-PL @ NASIG
Liveblogging Todd Carpenter on ONIX-PL ONIX-PL is what you get when you combine licenses with XML To license – give To license – receive A license They are everywhere now – digital and physical, e.g. Turbo Tax and parking stickers Talking about click-through licenses But libraries have made massive investment negotiating. is it worthwhile? (Mentions …
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 …
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 …
New reports from EDUCAUSE and OCLC
Usually I rely on industry reports to put me to sleep, even those that generate lots of buzz and get described as “essential reading.” But today I’ve seen pointers to a couple reports that look really interesting and – bonus! – they each clock in at under 50 pages. The first is the 2009 Horizon …
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 …