Category Archives: integration

NISO Forum – Trends and Thoughts

Posted on October 29, 2009 by abigail

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 … Continue reading →

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I Still Heart LibraryThing

Posted on February 28, 2007 by abigail

From this Thingology post: Some day, if we have enough shared users [with Cork'd], LibraryThing can recommend books based on the wines you drink! Awesome!

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Modular Is As Modular Does

Posted on February 13, 2007 by abigail

We work with a lot of different vendors at MPOW (my place of work). Various parts of our e-resource administration and access are powered by products from Ex Libris, Serials Solutions, and III. (We are currently a development partner for … Continue reading →

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Ingenta Shares Holdings with Google Scholar

Posted on October 13, 2006 by abigail

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 … Continue reading →

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D2D

Posted on September 29, 2006 by abigail

D2D is the new thing, popping up recently on Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog and the program for NISO’s upcoming workshop. What is it? Simply an acronym for “discovery to delivery,” the process that a person goes through to get anything from … Continue reading →

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Library Content in Blackboard

Posted on May 9, 2006 by abigail

Claire Dygert of American University Library gave an excellent presentation at NASIG about her library’s use of Blackboard to provide course-related content to professors and students. American University and Washington Research Libraries Consortium, to which AU belongs, developed a plug-in … Continue reading →

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