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NISO Forum – Trends and Thoughts

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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 look, even in slide format.
A number of words, themes, and ideas resonated throughout the two-day [...]

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I Still Heart LibraryThing

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

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

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

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 Encore by III, but I can’t say any more about that or we’ll [...]

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Ingenta Shares Holdings with Google Scholar

Friday, October 13, 2006

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 be making our library holdings data available to Google Scholar’s Library Links program.
The full press [...]

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D2D

Friday, September 29, 2006

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 a peer-reviewed research article to a new pair of Manolo Blahniks. Four [...]

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Library Content in Blackboard

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

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 for Bb called LinkMaker. LinkMaker assists faculty and librarians with the creation of [...]

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