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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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Twitter – what’s the fuss?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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 has [...]

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On joining the conversation again

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

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 [...]

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Tee Hee

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Do you want to see library blog posts about potatoes?  Of course you do!
Why the laughter?  Folks, my posting has been so light I have to Google my Gmail for “wordpress” every time I want to login here, yet somehow I’m not last on the list.

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Twittering

Sunday, May 20, 2007

I think I first read about Twitter on Creating Passionate Users, but soon thereafter it started popping up on a lot of library blogs I read.  I didn’t want to get crushed in the stampede, so I waited out the buzz until this weekend when I got talking about it with a friend and decided [...]

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10 Technologies to Watch for 2007

Monday, December 18, 2006

Popular Mechanics has published a list of 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007. My favorites: data clouds (“you’re one step closer to retiring the original data storage device—the one in your head”) and smart pills (“could make a wide range of invasive procedures obsolete”).

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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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Top Technology Trends

Monday, June 19, 2006

It’s that time of year again.
Eric Lease Morgan has posted his trends at the LITA blog in advance of ALA. He touches on catalogs and cataloging, social software and social networking, and open source software, among other things.

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