In brief: June 30 2008 – MS will cease selling XP to the general publicbut school districts, colleges, and universities can buy machines with XP until January 2009. http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=53769;_hbguid=4a20ae24-1f5b-4809-bdd8-a82a7fcd512b
So, you thought those yellow paper sticky notes were useful as they are, hmm? What if you could transfer your sticky notes to your computer? I don’t mean stick them to the frame of your monitor, either ;-D And it would be better than my PDA if it would somehow manage all of the sticky notes that people leave me.
If you’ve not heard of the openlibrary.org initiative, the idea is “one web pagefor every book ever published.” A pretty noble undertaking….Anyhow, news is that have now have a total of 13.4 million books,with about 18 million more records to go.Of course quantity and quality are not the same. ;-DAs for where these records are coming from, they have startedmerging
Nifty little online workshop about XML in Libraries — very well organized and easy to follow. Covers the basics of XML to writing XML, with lots of exercises. http://infomotions.com/musings/xml-in-libraries/
Hmmm….. ———————– From Microsoft’s Live Search blog: “Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes.” Full blog posting at: http://tinyurl.com/5333gq
Link: http://liswire.com/node/63 Excerpt:OCLC and Google Inc. have signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services. Under terms of the agreement, OCLC member libraries participating in the Google Book Search™ program, which makes the full text of more than one million books searchable, may share their WorldCat-derived MARC records with Google
Well, I thought about pre-posting (aka future posting) a few entries, but then I decided against it. So, you all got a break from me, while I got break from computers and some days, even technology, well, except for my camera. ;-D I did finally fully migrate from film to digital. I’m still not sure I buy into the whole
From the google blog: Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser’s cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In fact, to download the MP4 files, you need to use the same URL like for FLV files and append “&fmt=18”: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=ID&t=SIGNATURE&fmt=18 ID is the video’s identification value, SIGNATURE is a
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/contents-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3543-2 Includes interesting essays such as Teaching the Radical Catalog, User-Centered Serials Cataloging, “Why Isn’t My Book on the Shelf?” and Other Mysteries of the Library (by yours truly), AACR2—Bendable but Not Flexible: Cataloging Zines at Barnard College, Dr. Strangecataloger: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tag, MARC: It’s Not Just for Cataloging Anymore, Control: A