Although the introduction of this article is overly simplified in terms of the changes in library technology (I couldn’t help but laugh a little in a couple of places) , once you’re past that, the rest is a good little overview of some of the more popular opensource products. I’ve hotlinked and listed the products below, the article gives a
For those of you who use blogger and use labels/tags, just a heads up, if you delete posts that you have labelled or try to remove labels, it may not work properly. You’ve removed the label from all posts, yet there it is in the label list, with a post count. Clicking on the post count, shows no posts associated
okay, pardon the bad pun on dr. strangelove… I’ve been following some of the opensource ils projects with interest. evergreen (launched by the Georgia Public Lib System), is still in heavy development. From my understanding it originally launched without acquisitions or serials checkin (eeks!) ; however from an upcoming presentation flyer it appears that acquisitions will launch or has launched
The Web and AJAX have many deficiencies, including security holes, and much more needs to be done to iron out these problems, according to a keynote speaker at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday evening After taking the audience through a history of computing interfaces beginning with Hollerith cards to time-sharing and finally to the
5000 resources to do just about anything online I love mashable and I can’t possibly summarize everything in this article, but if you are looking for new things to do with your blog/website, or just to have a little fun on the ‘net, do take a look. You can find things such as 30 widgets for a wordpress blog, 70+
Hmm, well it does sound like fun. Oh, wait, I already do some of these things… 😉 Brief synopsis (for those who don’t like to click that much): Old way => information/knowledge held in a “fiefdom” by a small group of players ; knowledge workers are limited in power and by territory, knowledge as a process, rigid ways of organizing
This looks so coool. Kind of like google earth but for the sky. very very cool. ;-D article on google sky google sky website
Firefox ‘Campus Edition’ Firefox Campus Edition includes Zotero (citation system), FoxyTunes (audio player), StumbleUpon (discovery & bookmarking service) and probably some other goodies! http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons/campus/
Using the blog clound from phydeaux3 and limit labels by post count is a handy way to control the size of your blog cloud. The code and instructions for the label cloud are here:http://phy3blog.googlepages.com/Beta-Blogger-Label-Cloud.html Tweaking the var cloudMin= 1 to var cloudMin= 2in the script will suppress any label from display in the cloud with less than 2 posts (i.e.,
I saw the GALILEO interface screenshots at a presentation a few months back and it looks like a HUGE step forward. I think it looks really great — not overwhelming in information displayed, a simple interface, terminology that makes sense, etc. I have been using GALILEO since its early days. It was incredibly helpful to me as a sometimes distance