Category Archives: interesting ideas

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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Customer vs. container, content vs. service

Posted on September 25, 2009 by abigail

Lots of interesting ideas floating around this week about the future of publishing, much applicable and relevant to libraries. First up, the Scholarly Kitchen’s blogging of the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s IN conference keynotes, with an interesting comment about “diffintermediation” … Continue reading →

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Industry-Sponsored Professional Development

Posted on June 10, 2009 by abigail

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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Peter Morville @ NASIG

Posted on June 5, 2009 by abigail

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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Newsflash: Librarians New “It” Girls

Posted on June 16, 2007 by abigail

Librarians are totally the new “It” girls! Fred Flare says so.

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LibraryThing UnSuggester

Posted on November 14, 2006 by abigail

I’m fascinated by LibraryThing’s new UnSuggester, unveiled Sunday along with their “real” recommender system. UnSuggester gives you opposites instead of similar titles. For example, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky overlaps least with Daughters of the Moon by Lynne Ewing. … Continue reading →

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Portable New Yorker

Posted on August 29, 2006 by abigail

Emdashes reports that the New Yorker will soon sell the Complete New Yorker on portable hard drive in addition to the DVD set already on sale. For $299 you get an installation CD and a portable 3″x5″ drive. Since $59.99 … Continue reading →

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