tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56758502011-04-21T21:22:15.079-04:00Thoughts, directions, ideas, and concepts that came across the email inbox and mind of John Burke. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09692592632404073785noreply@blogger.comBlogger1391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675850.post-1149362326869085012006-06-03T15:17:00.000-04:002006-06-03T15:18:48.440-04:00

A book that I keep meaning to read and keep finding references to. Published in 1992 by Michael Buckland, it is now available online at no charge. I understand that it focuses on designing the library in response to user needs, rather than constructing the library for the good of the librarian (who's interests and perspectives on libraries may differ from the library's users).

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Presentation materials from David W. Lewis, who spoke at the OhioLINK Annual Directors' Meeting in March 2006. I think this PowerPoint captures the elements he spoke about regarding the transition in libraries from physically-owned and licensed electronic resources to open web and open access resources over a 25 year span. He analyzes libraries and their provision of information using the ideas

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O'Reilly -- What Is Web 2.0 - well, what is it? What does Web 2.0 mean? I've read a few other pieces on the subject, but I understand that this is a really excellent article (more once I read it 8-) ).

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Googlization and Google Migration - Steven Bell's excellent presentation at the same conference.

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A great presentation by Thomas Dowling of OhioLINK at the May 3, 2006, SOCHE Library Conference: "Academic Libraries in a Googleized World"

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Build a Feed You Can Cut 'n PasteThis is a great RSS to Javascript conversion service. I am using this to get our library blog feed on the library web site.

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Library GrantsWorth a look for new grant programs for libraries.

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Tech-Recipes.com - Computer help Windows Solaris Linux Cisco MySQL ProgrammingAn excellent additional troubleshooting information site!

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Very intriguing. It makes one wonder how we can solve the issue or music rights (let alone the myriad of copyright issues with print). The Hidden Cost of Documentaries - New York Times: "Mr. Jaszi is an author, with Patricia Aufderheide, the director of American University's Center for Social Media, of a report titled 'Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for

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The newly started ACRLog, blog for the Association of College and Research Libraries, looks interesting. It raises the question of whether it should be pronounced "A-C-R-L og" (with emphasis on the "og" for a nice caveperson sound), or, as I expect, "A-C-R-Log". I will definitely keep looking in on it.

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Electronic Journals Beginning with A - This site at the University of Saskatchewan libraries lists a variety of academic journals that offer RSS feeds. Worth a look. I wonder how this could best be communicated to faculty and others who might be interested in specific titles?

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Automator - Examples -- methods for automating podcasts

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Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

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CUFTS Resources Compare - This looks potentially useful for comparing given database coverages. Where was this tool in 1996? 8-)

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The Distant Librarian: RSS to Email wrapup

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Science Library Pad: The Shifted Librarian: OLC Presentation on library technology environment

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"Say Cheese! Putting Pictures of People on the Library's Web Page" - a 2002 webcast on using patron photographs on web sites. Worth a look to make sure we're doing the right thing with permissions.

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Robotic cranes will serve patrons of new USU library this fall Well, the robots are back. Despite the claims of increased efficiency and lessened space demands, questions remain. Who are these robotic cranes? What is their true motive? Who do they serve? Do they seek to merely aid humanity, or are they drawing us into an unstoppable movement toward our own destruction? Call me paranoid, but

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MP3 Insider: The new podcasting tools - CNET reviews

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The Distant Librarian: Google Print Bookmarklet

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See this announcement on the TVEyes site. It describes a forthcoming search engine which will search every word spoken in podcasts. I haven't given it a try yet, but it looks intriguing. There is a lot of discussion now on whether podcasting will make it as a technology (that is, is it useful/interesting/attractive/niche-y enough that enough people will support it?). Tools to locate podcasts

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EPIC 2014 - I highly recommend that you watch this (it's about 8 minutes long). It's one of those frightening-technology-escalations-that-make-the-future-a-horrible-place guesses at the days to come, but it does raise some interesting questions about where information technology may take us. I saw it at ACRL with a big crowd, and there were lots of laughs at it as well as sharp intakes of

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Library Journal - Ranganathan Online - one more reworking of Ranganthan's Five Laws for the digital age. Raises an interesting question regarding the third law.

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Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ? - here's how to set BlogThis! up on a machine. Basically, it's either the Google.

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Seven Common Usability Testing Mistakes - usability testing anyone? Some suggestions on ensuring a fair and meaningful test.

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It's all good - I've meant to add this here for a while. It's a blog written by three OCLC staff members with some very interesting reflections on technology and libraries among other things.

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BlogBib - thanks to LII New This Week: "This annotated bibliography includes definitions, articles about blogging and about library blogs, books, studies, links to samples of the myriad library blogs, tools for creating and using blogs, and links to presentations on blogging. ... While most entries are from the United States of America, BlogBib includes blogs and commentary from

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OCLC Members Council discusses impact of technology on delivery of library services - report from a Members Council discussion of the presentation "The Future Direction of Technology in Libraries: (or) The 'Hurrieder' We Go, The ‘Behinder’ We Get” by J. Richard Madaus, Executive Director, College Center for Library Automation, February 6-8, 2005.

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RedLightGreen -- Information for Librarians - Here's a nifty way to search for items in a joint catalog and then limit the search to your local library at the touch of a button. Works a bit like the Jon Udell Library Lookup link (see the link here).

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Marketing Treasures February 2005 This looks like a useful resource on library marketing from Chris Olson & Associates. Worth looking at later.

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Google Scholar is a Full Year Late Indexing PubMed Content (SiteLines - Ideas About Web Searching: February 2005 Archives) - well, nobody's perfect. I imagine this will be addressed pretty quickly, but it does go to show that indexing a vast quantity of information is not without its pitfalls. It's fair to bring these sorts of things out to searchers' (and Google's) attentions.

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DOMESTIC TRENDS TO THE YEAR 2015: FORECASTS FOR THE UNITED STATES - a little bit of looking backward (the report is from 1991) and looking forward.

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Google joins effort to put millions of books online - a brief discussion of additional book digitization projects, including those involving Google.

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Library Journal - Virtual Reference: Alive & Well - more on the state and future of virtual reference.

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21st Century Plagiarism (2004) An article by Jon Dorbolo . . . looks interesting.

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Pew Internet & American Life Project: The Future of the Internet For further review . . .

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Delivering the News with Blogs: The Georgia State University Library Experience (preprint article from Internet Reference Services Quarterly) A very intriguing setup of subject-related blogs hosted at Georgia State University Libraries. Gives subject selectors an opportunity to share happenings and resource additions in their field with students and faculty. The blogs are available directly at

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"Big Test" usability test results: MIT LIbraries Another something to look at when I have time. A fairly exhaustive set of usability studies on MIT's catalog, web site, chat reference service, etc.

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WIRED NEXTFEST This looks abundantly cool! I'll be up there for ALA, and it will be worth a look for $10.

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Chat's Positive Side. (Library Journal) A fairly balanced piece on chat reference in academic libraries by Carol Tenopir.

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UB Reporter: Internet threat to libraries analyzed See! I told you this Internet thing wasn't going to hurt us. 8-) This has been a fun issue to follow through the last ten years.

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Library Journal - Googlizers vs. Resistors Some interesting commentary on this whole "Google is the way (or not)" argument.

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Internet Archive to build alternative to Google (Information World Review) It will be interesting to see how this and other projects (let alone Google's) progress and end up in use. It will be interesting to check the status of these over time.

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Corey Seeman -- Mozilla/Firefox Plugin Page - More nifty applications of using Firefox to create a catalog search plugin for the browser. This has instructions for modifying the script for any OhioLINK library's catalog.

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Mozilla/Firefox Search Plugins

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TEST Google Scholar plugin for Firefox - didn't want to lose this link - plugin that makes Google Scholar search results show OLinks options in Mozilla Firefox.

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OCLC Top 1000 [OCLC - Research] - This is pretty nifty -- a list of the top 1000 items held by OCLC member libraries. Sort of a "most held" list. What percentage does your library hold?

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NPR : A San Francisco Bookshop Shows Its Colors - I like this (both as art and as an answer to that occasional library question, "Do you have the red book?"). I used to think that question was one of those librarian rant-material items, the sort of urban legend that is guaranteed to get a rise from people (even though they've never experienced it). I have had it posed to me more than once,

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Infrastructure and, Oh Yes, Budget/a> (EDUCAUSE, September 2004) - a cool sounding term, and a nifty concept -- who can ask for anything more?

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On Google Scholar - a librarian's blog dedicated to detailing and discussing this exciting (?) development.

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Segue - "the online literary journal of Miami University-Middletown" Just didn't want to lose this link. 8-)

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Shirky: Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software

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Jon Udell: LibraryLookup homepage This is such a neat idea! It let's you click a link (in your IE toolbar) when you are viewing information on a book in Amazon or other sources, and then it searches for the book in your library catalog.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Visionaries outline web's future Worth a read . . . what will the web be like?

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ABC News: Vietnam's Phone Subscribers Growing Details the phone directory service in Vietnam, which covers a lot more territory than 411 does. " . . . exchanges in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City alone field 75,000 calls a day asking for everything from college exam scores and soccer results to advice on finding love." It makes one wonder about library service in Vietnam, and whether they offer

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The Chronicle: 10/15/2004: More Professors Teach by Using Other Colleges' Online Courses Having been in the online course development game myself, I do wonder how well this would work -- to adapt existing courses to local use. It does seem like a time saver, and as long as some customization could happen, the course would still have the flavor of the local instructor/institution. It makes me

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From Marylaine Block's Neat New Stuff: 2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers: [OCLC Reports] "The report lays out the top trends in content and what they may mean for libraries in the next five years: Legitimacy of open-source publishing (e.g. blogs); Rapidly expanding economics of microcontent; Repurposing of "old" content for new media; Multimedia content as a service

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To Chat Or Not to Chat - Taking Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 2 [Searcher Magazine] Well, it's hard to believe I didn't post in August, but I had a lot going on. Interesting quote: "The telephone remains the communications channel of choice for most of our patrons as well — at least when they can't visit us at the desk." I'm not exactly anti-chat reference, but these two articles

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A quote, hopefully not too out of context, from Neil Postman's 1988 book Conscientious Objections: "First, we should teach our students something about question-asking in general. For example, that a vaguely formed question produces a vaguely formed answer; that every question has a point of view embedded in it; that for any question that is posed, there is almost always an alternative question

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Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries [D-Lib Magazine] An article relating to my (and many others) interest in connecting library users with the manifold resources we can access (both fee and free). Specifically, it points to populating search indexes with library materials and resources so that the library is not marginalized and left out of search results. A lot of my thought has

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Robots get bookish in libraries [BBC News] Helpful automation, or job-stealing cyborgs? You decide. I actually like the concept (not the job-stealing part), but I imagine practical use is a ways off.

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Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States A handy dandy reference sheet noting the copyright expirations of various types of published works, both in the U.S. and beyond.  Thanks to Marylaine Block and her Neat New Stuff I Found This Week (July 23, 2004). 

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Libraries: How They Stack Up--Canadian Edition (OCLC) A short, but quite informational report comparing Canadian libraries expenditures and outputs with those of industries and individual companies. Very interesting approach to measuring library work against that of the private sector. Can this convince doubters of libraries' value to society? Perhaps.

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To Chat Or Not to Chat — Taking Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 1 (Seacher). Yes, this is written by two chat reference proponents, and yes, I do expect that Part 2 will encourage us all to stay the course, fight the good fight, etc. However, this does appear to be an honest exploration of the uses, costs, and benefits of virtual reference. Only participating in email reference myself,

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Flawed Online Searches Cost Businesses $31 Billion Last Year So, why weren't they having librarians run the searches? Perhaps the obvious question from people of my ilk. There is an immense promise in Web searching that you can do it yourself and do it quickly, and still get quality information. Sometimes this promise is met, and the self-taught searcher finds what is needed (or believes that

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Unusual libraries [Prince Rupert Public Library] Well, we're all pretty odd, but these libraries have interesting settings and missions.

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The nonsense of 'knowledge management' [Information Research] Worth a look. I've read a lot about knowledge management, kinda think I'm doing it quite a bit, but maybe there's more (or less) to this.

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Vatican's 15th-century library goes high-tech [Lexington Herald-Leader] Actually, they all have RFID in common. Interesting, very interesting. So anyway, the Pope, Elvis, and Mahatma Gandhi are all on an airplane . . .

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Online Survey of College Students: Executive Summary(The Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC)) Another study indicating strong student (undergraduate and graduate) use of the broad Internet for information-seeking over library-licensed resources (and the physical library). I think that every discipline and academic library can speak to the fact that use has changed, and will

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"Making Book: Gambling on the Future of Our Libraries" A report by Consensus that notes trends in libraries that could affect their cost and quality. It's a planning document aimed at Kansas City's metro libraries. I thought it might serve to reveal some trends in library work that apply beyond this geographic area and type of library.

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Libraries in search of a future [The Daily Star] For all the complaints and issues we might offer and discuss involving American libraries (and those in the larger "Western" world), this article profiles the situation of libraries in Bangladesh. Our "problems" cannot even be imagined in that library environment, and would seem absolutely abstract and pointless. My take from this situation is to

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Librarianate v. 1. To act in a manner that the general populace would characterize as "being a librarian" (i.e. cataloging socks, feeling compelled to answer any and all questions raised in conversation). 2. To excel in the work of a librarian for a momentary or prolonged time period ("Rita was really librarianating today!" or "Simply put, Ms. Nelson librarianates more than anyone else in the

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Electronic Moves Center Stage [Library Journal] A useful update of the electronic nature of much government information now, plus the best government documents of 2003.

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Is Boolean Dead? (Mary Ellen Bates in EContent).

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Presentations from Computers in Libraries 2004. A good review of what's new and what's coming (along with reflections on the past).

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British libraries could shut by 2020 [The Guardian] Things do not look promising for public libraries across the waters. Stats are down, and administrative staff numbers seem high . . . this will be useful to watch and see how the "crisis" is dealt with.

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Here's an interesting twist. E-books (in this case, a serialized novel) sent out to cell phones for reading, review, and interaction with the author. NOVELS DELIVERED TO YOUR PHONE [Trends in Japan] .

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University actions against high journal prices - how some institutions and their libraries are taking a stand against rising journal costs. A growing list, I am sure.

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The Hollywood Librarian: a look at librarians in film - this looks like an interesting presentation by Ann Seidl. Something to keep in mind for a future speaker.

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New Search Portal - it is what it says it is -- lots of links to news search sites. Looks pretty useful.

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Comparing Citation Management Software - a read for some point when I want to know more about these citation management programs (EndNote, Reference Manager, ProCite).

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SoCal city falls victim to Internet hoax, considers banning items made with water [The Mercury News] Just when you think "no one will ever believe that," well, here we go. 8-) I wonder if they also signed up for that cloning service.

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Encyclopedias Have Become Dead Weight (News Scan Daily -- from the Washington Post). Encyclopedia have had it, according to this article. I know that I do not use ours as much as I used to (with or without patrons). And I wonder about our glorious large, print reference sets in various areas. How do we get people to use them? Should people use them?

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Price Increases Are Not the Problem [The Charleston Advisor] An article that gets to the heart of the scholarly communication "crisis". A good overview of the issues involved and some possible solutions. Addressing the initial point of the article, I would say that it is often easier to talk about percentage increases for a wide slew of journals -- i.e., "our journal subscriptions have

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Valpo library gets robot help [The Indianapolis Star] Here we go again (see the story I linked to back in December on something similiar in Japan). I actually think this is pretty cool. Does this eliminate library jobs? I think not (so long as there is not a direct transfer of personnel funds to buy the robot). Job expansion or alteration is my expected route for the full-time staff or

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Roll up for a vision of the future [The Engineer] Is this finally it? Electronic paper that functions as both handy portable reading material and multi-document storage? Philips thinks so.

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Ranganathan for IAs [Boxes and Arrows] Reflections on S. R. Ranganathan's meaning to information architects. I have always enjoyed Ranganathan, his Five Laws, and more of his thoughts. Remind me to tell you about my thorax classification system . . . 8-)

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Practical Implications of ERIC Changes, byt Kate Corby of Michigan State University. I have not been following this as closely as I ought to have. There are going to be a lot of questions from patrons regarding educational research without an updated ERIC database (until Sept. 03) and with the upcoming changes to the new ERIC.

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The Kept-Up Academic Librarian, authored by Steven Bell, the library director from Philadelphia University. Looks really useful for keeping up with various higher education matters that may affect libraries (directly or indirectly).

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What technologies might represent that statement today in the library world?What technologies or technological services are we touting in libraries that (based on volume of use) already represent this? How do we judge whether a new technology has value when we can only see so far down the road? More to come . . .

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Technology alters library usage [The Parkersburg News] A newspaper story on how the digital age is not affecting public library use negatively, but rather increasing library visits. Circulation is holding steady, but patrons are using the library more because it offers Internet access. I expect this trend is (and has been) quite widespread, but it's nice to see a "case report" that supports it.

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The Telegraph in the Library [Richard Garnett] An 1899 article singing the praises of an earlier library technology. I am a real sucker for these sorts of pieces -- imagining that they show how our infatuation with technology is nothing new and just as laughable in foresight as in hindsight.

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I've seen these before, but this looks like a nifty automatic citation tool (for MLS and APA at least): Slate Citation Machine.

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Keeping Found Things Found, a research project of the Information School at the University of Washington. Examines how people keep track of the sources that they find for later use.

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Library books play second fiddle to videos, CDs [The Denver Post] The numbers are somewhat stunning: 53% of circulation in Denver Public Library from audio and video resources, 20% from adult books. This is not the whole future, but it seems to be a serious part of it. One wonders again about whether the video chains will start complaining again. Where do we go from here?

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Here's a blog to check out on technological issues in libraries: LibrarianInBlack. It's written by Sarah Houghton for tech librarians.

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The Many Facets of Managing Electronic Resources [Computers in Libraries] An article by Marshall Breeding discussing the public and technical ends of managing and presenting electronic resources. Gives examples of products of use in either section of these efforts. I am interested in this "dialectic" in that it speaks to a continual issue in library technology: do we do what we do for us, or

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Little things put big burdens on librarians of Santa Cruz [The Mercury News]. A look at the negative ergonomic impact of library work in one large public library.

Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09692592632404073785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675850.post-1071867595628208272003-12-19T15:59:00.000-05:002003-12-19T16:00:49.606-05:00

Guinness: Scientist creates world's largest book [CNN] Is bigger better? I liked the quote from Brewster Kahle in the article about interacting with a book "eye-to-eye, like a person." An interesting, momentary deviation from our race toward smaller and less physical forms for information.

Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09692592632404073785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675850.post-1071591363139596602003-12-16T11:16:00.000-05:002003-12-16T11:16:54.560-05:00

Have you ever wondered if the library were like Amazon.com [pthbbbt]. An interesting take on how Amazon-like issues (or general Internet shopping effects) could be played out at the physical library. I wonder, though, if some of these "enhancements" aren't actually enhancements that could be played out to the benefit of patrons in the web library (in our OPACs, etc.). Some of it is just aimed

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