Monthly Archives: June 2009

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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