Category Archives: Digital Libraries

Institutional Repository Conference (Free!)

robinna/ February 15, 2011/ Digital Libraries, Libraries, open access/ 0 comments

The Digital Commons @ Kennesaw State and the Horace W. Sturgis Library arepleased to announce “Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice:Institutional Repositories as Publishers,” a free one-day conference oninstitutional repositories and their place in undergraduate education. Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011Location: KSU Continuing Education The keynote speaker will be Nancy Hensel, Executive Officer for the Councilon Undergraduate Research. This free

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85 reasons to love your librarian

robinna/ December 30, 2009/ Digital Libraries, Libraries, that's cool, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

heh heh… some of these are actually well thought, while others are clearly humorous… 1. Librarians take care of libraries, which are still invaluable today.2. Not all information is on the internet.3. Older books still hold great cultural significance.4. Libraries are still repositories for some of the most valuable works of literature in the world.5. Even with the internet, the

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The Opensource model, what it is and how it works

robinna/ July 25, 2008/ Digital Libraries, opensource/ 0 comments

Excellent article and overview of opensource, covering everything from licensing (yes, opensource has it), its evolution, security, issues, & more. Raymond has compared the development of OSS to a bazaar, where large numbers of interested individuals congregate to contribute (code contributors are called committers) or to provide peer review of the wares in the market (in this case, testing and

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Library news roundup: nexgen catalogs, institutional repositories, and more

robinna/ July 23, 2008/ software, Digital Libraries, Culture, STEM, semantic web, 3D, opensource, Gamification, Blog posts/ 0 comments

Well, since I have so many little library related tidbits floating around in my reader, I’m just going to do a roundup: Over at the shifted librarian, she has a nice blog post about the new startup project, bibliocommons @ the Oakville, Ontario library, to build a library catalog interface from scratch. The interface includes things like reviews, tagging, faceted

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Opensource ILS projects and how I learned to love the library catalog

robinna/ September 11, 2007/ software, Digital Libraries, Libraries, 3D, opensource, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

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

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