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I read for the first time Garrett Hardin's excellent 1968 article, "The Tragedy of the Commons", after someone brought it up on the ngc4lib discussion list in reference to the Google-Verizon broadband proposal. While Hardin speaks as an expert in biology, I like his use of philosophy in building his argument. For example, he invokes A.N. Whitehead's definition of 'tragedy': "The essence of

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Haven't posted much here lately, partly because I've been messing around with Drupal. See dsl_drupal feed in right navigation panel.

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Just posted something on this to the CMS Weblog

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Two interesting reports: Schonfeld &  Housewright's  "Faculty Survey 2009: Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, publishers, and Societies" (Ithika, 2010) and Michalko, Malpas, & Arcolio's  "Research Libraries, Risk and Systemic Change" (OCLC Research, 2010). The Ithika report (from the folks who bring us JSTOR) continues a longitudinal study begun in 2000 to gauge faculty perception of how

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Karen Coyle has an interesting (and alarming) post on OCLC's punishing treatment of Michigan State University after the MSU Library chose SkyRiver over WorldCat for its cataloging operations. It appears that even after MSU's switch, the Library still wanted to contribute records back to WorldCat for ILL purposes and expected to pay the advertised rate of $0.23 per record. In fact, OCLC wanted to

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I was impressed with Jennifer Bowen's demo at ALA and installed the software on my local machine once I got back. I wrote up some specifics at CMS blog.

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There's an article by David Stuart in the latest issue of Research Information entitled: "Research Skills could Transform Librarians Roles". Because someone tagged it "code4lib" in delicious , the citation showed up in Planet Code4Lib. I was happy to discover it there since it helps me understand my own growing enthusiasm for programming. The reality today is that most people search for

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A high-level Harvard task force urges closer cooperation and a unified strategic plan among the university's 73 separate libraries (and with peer institutions). I posted a few notes on the CMS blog.

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I just posted some excerpts from the Study of the North American MARC Records Marketplace (along with a bit of commentary) to the CMS blog .

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I posted some links about Abram's position paper (and mostly negative feedback) over at the CMS blog

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I think this Jim Morin cartoon pretty much hits the nail on the head:

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Just announced: Mac O.S. developer build for Google's Chrome browser now available.

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Whitehouse.gov is now Drupal-powered. I commented on this (and Drupal use in libraries) over at the CMS blog.

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See article in computerworld.com about breakthrough at NCSU: "Engineers create fingernail-size chip that holds 1TB of data", and featured today on slashdot. 

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A thoughtful and poignant (if also left-slanted) essay from the Berliner Umschau, translated by Watching America: "American De-Industrialization Continues Unabated." This part in particular made me wince: "When word gradually spread that Detroit automobiles were of inferior quality, all three American car manufacturers responded with attempts to inoculate their customers with doses of

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The New York Times Magazine 9/30/09 cover story, “ The Holy Grail of the Unconscious: What the Unearthing of Carl Jung's Red Book is Doing to the Jungs and the Jungians (and maybe your Dreams)", recounts how the “most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology” is now about to be published. Jung's complete illustrated manuscript had been locked away in a safe deposit box for many

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Hōshi Ryokan, featured today on gizmag.com, is the world's oldest hotel and its oldest continuously-operating business, owned and operated by 46 generations of the same family over 1,291 years so far. According to gizmag, it was established by a Buddhist disciple at a hot spring in Komatsu, Japan, after its location was revealed to his master in a dream.

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Yale Daily News article suggests "The Nine Weirdest Things at Yale", two of which are in the Library: the Voynich manuscript at the Beinecke, and the Greco-Roman-Egyptian Magical amulets in the Babylonian Collection.

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Just finished reading Fred Kaplan's "1959: the Year Everything Changed", and while I'm not convinced  1959 qualifies as the singular hinge year of the 20th century, I'm not sure that matters (even to Kaplan), and it's a good book in any case. He analyzes and weaves together a wide variety of events, e.g.: Castro seizing power in Cuba; Allen Ginsberg reading poetry to rapt audiences in New York;

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Per emtacl10 announcement: "The future success of academic libraries is dependent on in-depth understandings of the relevance of emerging technologies. Our focus must be on accessibility, interaction, intuitivity, sharing, user-driven content and other web 2.0 challenges. This is a conference for academic library workers and others with a general interest in emerging technologies and electronic

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According to Google Webmaster Central Blog post , (which was just slashdotted ): "a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google's web search. It's the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions ... we're opening up a web developer preview to collect

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A new augmented reality app uses the iPhone's built-in GPS receiver, electronic compass, video camera, and accelerometer (the thing that lets the iPhone switch from portrait to landscape mode when turned sideways) to project contextual information onto any viewed object. Not yet available for purchase, but a London Tube station locator is demo'd in this BBC report.

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I'm grateful to dchud for pointing out to me these two outstanding open-access web sites: lang-8 and smart.fm . I'm particularly intrigued by the way lang-8 connects people around the world who are trying to improve their language skills. For example, it lets you keep a "journal" that native readers will review and correct for you (and you do the same for them), and might even help you make new

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Featured today on SlashDot. Take a look at this video clip.

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Nicholson Baker asks in this week's New Yorker, "Can the Kindle really improve on the book?" His answer, so far, seems to be "not yet." The Vizplex electronic paper is less legible than print, and DRM constraints are especially problematic: "Kindle books aren't transferable. You can't give them away or lend them or sell them. You can't print them. They are closed clumps of digital code that only

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Another potentially great conference, "Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data," is now open for registration. The program will "explore the conceptual and practical issues in breaking the constraints of data silos and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge. Metadata is a key to these processes supporting publishing and interlinking structured data on the Semantic Web." Takes

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Code4Lib 2010 is Monday February 22nd through Thursday February 25th at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel in Asheville, NC (compare air fares). There's a conference planning Google Group and a wiki page for signing up as a volunteer. I volunteered to help with documentation and selecting a keynote speaker.

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Access 2009 is at Murphy's Community Centre in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Thurs., Oct. 1 - Sat, Oct. 3, 2009, preceded by a "hackfest" on Wed, Sept. 30. Program speakers include Roy Tennant, Dan Chudnov, Stevan Harnad, and others. Per Accommodations page, Islander Hotel is the only one with special rates beginning Sept. 29 (i.e., for those attending Hackfest). Getting there seems a bit

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My dad shared this link to a Wired Science demo of the very cool $59K Touchtable, a flat-panel, wide-format, high-resolution, touch-sensitive screen, combining satellite imagery with other data sets, navigable with iPhone-like finger movements. Danny Hillis and others at applied minds did the initial development work.

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This is a strange site, a virtual Korean barbecue dinner, narrated in Japanese. It was featured in themoment.blogs.nytimes.com and brought to my attention by Keiko. It just makes me hungry.

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See notes at CMS Web Log

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Jim Michalko had some interesting observations on the June 3rd OCLC user studies symposium. I posted a response on the CMS Web Log

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John Allsopp has a nice article on microformats at the mixonline site. If you want to include microformats in your own web pages, you can embed elements in classes with values taken from the hCard standard, .e.g,. p class="country-name" USA /p (I'm leaving off the angle brackets here since they trigger HTML formatting and obscure the code).To see your microformats or those embedded by others,

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This is cool (from Information Today via ILS News): "go to Google.com and type in 'unemployment rate' or 'population' followed by a U.S. state or county; you will see the most recent estimates and then get an interactive chart that lets you add and remove data for different geographical areas. Users can customize the graphs and share them with others."

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See post in CMS blog.

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Stephen Wolfram presented his "computational knowledge engine" at Harvard's Berkman Center. You can find the video on YouTube. Over at the code4lib discussion list, some are debating if it threatens research libraries or even Google. Hard to tell until it gets switched on later this month.This topic was just slashdotted (5/5/09)

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SRA cited a nice article by Anthony Grafton, "Apocalypse in the Stacks?" in the journal Daedalus . I posted a few excerpts to the CMS blog.

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The World Digital Library (WDL) was formally released yesterday. Yale University is a founding partner and Dan Chudnov (formerly at Yale; now at LC) helped develop it. You can find brief descriptions in the Chronicle of Higher Education and New York Times and more details on the site itself. It was also discussed on Slashdot. According to the Mission Statement, the WDL "makes available on the

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I posted some thoughts about the new OCLC ILS here.

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Deputy Provost Charles Long, quoted in the Yale Daily News: "Every month, [Chief Investment Officer] David Swensen has to write a check for $100 million to the University. Imagine you're Swensen. What're you going to sell?"

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I wrote up some of my notes in the CMS blog.

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This is just a test to see if I can post directly from the MS Office (2007) blogging template. If you can see this message, then it worked!

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I'm looking forward to the Yale Law School's Library 2.0 Symposium this weekend. According to the home page, "This symposium will lay out a vision for the future of the library and digital collections; the ethical implications of Library 2.0, including data retention and patron privacy; intellectual property rights in user-generated and traditional digital library content; and the challenges of

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Clifford Lynch and Aaron Swartz visited Yale this week. I had an opportunity to speak with both of them, and I've posted my notes to the CMS blog (where I seem to be posting everything these days).

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See article link in CMS blog.

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I've posted notes from the Code4Lib 2009 conference on the classes*v2 server.

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My brother sent out a link to Henry Hey's amazing musical accompaniment to a speech by George W. Bush. And there's another one I found that accompanies some quotations from McCain and Palin.It turns out Hey has a jazz trio that performs in New York and is signed with Nineteen-Eight Records.

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Steven J. Bell has a thought-provoking piece in the Feb. 17th issue of Inside Higher Ed : "The Library Web Site of the Future". Bell's jumping-off point is an August 2008 Ithika Group report, "Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation of Higher Education, which showed, he writes, that "faculty no longer perceived the library as an important portal to scholarly information."Another

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I attended the OCLC Symposium at ALA Midwinter 2009: "From Linking to Thinking: How We'll Live When Information Surrounds Us". The panelists were David Weinberger (Harvard Berkman Center fellow, author of Everything is Miscellaneous, etc.) and Nova Spivack (founder of Radar Networks, twine.com, and a leading figure in Semantic Web development, etc.). The moderator was OCLC's Roy Tennant (list

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See posting on CMS Web log.

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I posted something on the CMS blog about the new "Summon" service from Serial Solutions, the Andrew Nagy connection, and how it all relates to what David Weinberger said at the ALA 2009 OCLC Symposium.

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Rochkind is a fan of metadata and professional cataloging, but he worries about the future and for good reason. I've posted a summary of his recent comments on the CMS blog

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Yesterday I finally was able to get Sun's VirtualBox configured properly on my MacBook, and then install Ubuntu 8.10 as a guest O.S. My longer-term goal was to install VuFind using these installation instructions, but I got tripped up after the Oracle InstantClient download when I tried to execute "sudo pecl install oci8" and received the error message "Oracle client libraries not found". Steve

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Stefan K. cited a recent Chronicle.com letter to the editor by Pat Steele and Brad Wheeler of Indiana University, who write that the traditional rift between librarians and technologists is damaging both sides. They mention the HathiTrust shared digital repository as an example of successful collaboration between these two groups and across multiple institutions.Wheeler gives a more detailed

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LWN published its 11th annual timeline of significant OSS events, interspersed with quotations from key players. Here's one I liked from incoming Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst: "Open source is a way to focus on the customer, letting us grow, succeed, and change the technology landscape...all while doing something that is fundamentally good. Fighting for open standards and open formats. These things

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Daniel Xiao and John Paul Fullerton mentioned three OSS library automation tools they've developed (lita-l, 7/7/08). I modified the LibCat one so that it works with Orbis. Haven't tried the others yet.

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Per Jon Schwartz in the Nov. 29 Health section of the New York Times, researching health issues online is nothing new, but increasingly patients like my step-sister Terri share their experiences and knowledge through online peer-to-peer networks. "These expanded capabilities allow people to share information easily, upending the top-down path of information between doctors and patients. Today,

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Log in to ISIS to view, change, course selections, grades, transcripts, etc. You may look up your ISIS User ID. Also, see the instructions on logging into ISIS Student Self-Service at Click on the link for “First Time ISIS Users” Retrieve online course username and password. Wait 1-2 business days after registration before completing this step. Click on the "Get Your Online Course Username &

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The 2009 ALA Midwinter conference is in Denver, Jan. 23-28. Bundled registration (for this and the Annual meeting) is $300 for division members, if paid by Sept. 30.

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DeviceGuru » Stanford offers free CS courses

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The Elm City Shakespeare Company is staging "Hamlet" and "The Matchmaker" at Edgerton Park this year. (Both productions were excellent ... cf. shakespeare.mit.edu for full text of Hamlet.)

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View Larger MapOr consider NorthWest Airlines BDL to TVC $400 each (per Travelocity 11/8/08)

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"The RDF Book Mashup demonstrates how Web 2.0 data sources like Amazon, Googleor Yahoo can be integrated into the Semantic Web. ... information about books, their authors, reviews, and online bookstores ... can be used by RDF tools and you can link to it from your own Semantic Web data."

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Video clip of Clay Shirky's presentation at Supernova 2007, comparing the Ise shrine to the Perl user community. The shrine is re-built every 20 years from forest that supplied wood for original building. UNESCO would have none of it, since the original was not preserved. "Perl is a shinto shrine," in the sense that it perseveres over time through the love of its community, not through signed

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Amaznode visualizes the relationships between and among books in the Amazon database. For example, I searched "Shogun" and retrieved a networked cluster of cover images related to that search. Would be interesting to mash up with YuFind ...

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Don't know how I missed this before. "Roy Tennant started TechEssence to address the need for simple, easy to understand information about information technology ... " Other contributors include: Dorothea Salo, Eric Lease Morgan, Jenn Riley (the "Inquiring Librarian"), Lori Bowen Ayre, Marshall Breeding, Meredith Farkas, and Thomas Dowling.

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This is a word-art-style tag-cloud based on my delicious accountTo build your own, visit wordle.net

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Notes on "Tradition, Text, & Technology" AJL session in Cleveland 6/25/08Prof. Carl Posy reviewed history of JNUL, and current efforts to separate national library collections from those of the Hebrew University. Effort supported by Rothschild's Yad ha-Nadiv.Followed up by Prof. Elhanan Adler on "Creation of Full text Archive of Historical Jewish Press." JNUL announced Historic Newspapers

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Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library, has a piece in the June 12th issue of the New York Review of Books called "The Library in the New Age".He writes: "Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What, for example, will

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Reported in Mainichi News and LIS-News: "'Soka Gakkai members kept on trying to get me to vote for their favored election candidates,' he was quoted as telling investigators. 'I wanted to get back at them.'"

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The Guardian newspaper published a supplement called "Libraries Unleashed". See post on CMS web log.

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ALA 2008 annual conference is in Anaheim, June 26-July 2.

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As reported in the Yale Daily News and LIS News, James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, gave a talk last week on "Freedom as Strategy: the Importance of an Ideal". I was there. He stressed the importance of education in sustaining a free society, and that we're not doing too well in that area. More controversially, he suggested that some kind of religious faith is necessary to prevent

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The 2008 annual conference will be June 22-25, 2008, at the Marriott Cleveland East. Here's the official home page. There's also this blog with some additional information on it.The keynote speaker Sunday evening will be Dr. Ellen Frankel, editor-in-chief and CEO of the Jewish Publication Society. Her appearance at the AJL convention will coincide with JPS's 120th anniversary.

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"In 1895, the year that saw the debut of Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the playwright lost everything when he was convicted of “gross indecency” and sentenced to two years in prison. A Woman of No Importance had premiered two years earlier and anticipated the forces that would strike him down. Of British society, he said, “To be in it is merely a bore. To be out of it is simply a

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I saw a few of these $400 flash-powered Linux-running Asus 3epc's at C4L 2008.Compare with Via NanoBook, Palm Foleo, Intel ClassmatePC, Lemot Fulong, and OLPC (One Laptop per Child).

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The Feb. 8 issue of PC Magazine recommends 157 free software tools.

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"Wikipedia is just an incredible thing," writes Nicholson Baker in the March 20, 2008 issue of the NYRB. Ostensibly a review of John Broughton's Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, Baker's piece goes a long way toward explaining why Wikipedia's become the world's dominant reference work. One factor: it has an excellent foundation in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica and other public domain reference

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Yesterday I attended that Evergreen pre-conference led by Dan Scott of Laurentian University. By show of hands, it seemed two-thirds of the attendees (myself included) were unable to get prerequisites installed before coming. I should have installed VMware or Parallels and then Ubuntu or Debian Linux at home, but there just wasn't enough time. In any event, the installation of the Evergreen

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The 2008 code4lib conference will place Feb. 25-28 at Embassy Suites in downtown Portland, Oregon.See discussion at conference home page and Google Groups and on code4lib IRC (cf. FAQs)Some proposals of particular interest: Andrew Nagy on VuFind; Jon Phipps on the NSDL Metadata Registry; Winona Salesky and Michael Park on "XForms for Metadata creation," Terry Reese and Emily Lynema on DLF ILS

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Chris Barr (Design & Interface Specialist at Villanova University library) writes: "With this release [i.e., 0.7] we included an experimental browse feature that we would love to hear some feedback on from this list, as the topic of browse has come up here in the past.Try the browse demo here: http://www.vufind.org/demo/Browse/Home . This is still a work in progress. Some things in the browse are

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The Dec. 11th Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Yale has begun providing open access to video, audio, and textual materials for selected courses.”Lectures can be downloaded and run in streaming video or in audio only. There are searchable transcripts of each lecture, as well as course syllabi, reading assignments, problem sets, and other materials." (per University spokesman Tom Conroy.)

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Release of the LC Report has been mentioned on the CMS Web Log, and was the topic of discussion at our last Catalog Librarians meeting. Here are my notes for Section 4.

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See original page and CMS referral.

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In "Mastering the Three Worlds of Information Technology," (Harvard Business Review, November 2006, p. 141-149) Andrew McAfee argues that "managers who distance themselves from IT abdicate a critical responsibility." They should "stop looking at IT projects as technology installations and start looking at them as periods of organizational change that they have a responsibility to manage." He

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Plugged in from Google Maps. Click on virtual pushpins to view labels.View Larger Map

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This article in CNet was slashdotted today. Why should you care about open source?" the author asks rhetorically, "You should care because the vast majority of common applications, even complex commercial stuff like Adobe Photoshop, Windows Media Player and Microsoft Office, have free, open-source alternatives."

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Posted on LISNews 11/14/07: Productivity Toolbox: 37+ Tools ..., including the book Getting Things Done, "the most famous resource about completing your tasks and checking things off of your to-do list. Written by the now-famous David Allen, it is a must read if you haven’t already," Lifehacker.com, Simple GTD (free software based on Allen's work), Mee Timer (compares business versus personal

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On the way to Kitchner, Ontario, Rochester, a 6-hour drive from New Haven,View Larger Maphas the George Eastman House; and Buffalo, the Albright Knox Gallery

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Slashdot story: Movable Type Goes Open Source. But is it too late to catch up with Wordpress?Cf. dlovins.wordpress.com

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Back on February 12, Jessamyn West mentioned on librarian.net that a complete set of LoC authority records had been made available for download by Simon Spero. Tim Spalding also announced it on his thingology blog. Now (per Nathan Rinne on AutoCat 11/13) Bernhard Eversberg has used it to create a user-friendly BrowseLCSH application.

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In response to accusations that the UM Library has sold itself out to Google, Dean of Libraries Paul Courant told the Library Journal (Nov. 11 LJNewswire), "As part of our arrangement with Google [for 7 million volumes scanned in 6 years], they give us copies of all the digital files, and we can keep them forever," he wrote. "Our only financial outlay is for storage and the cost of providing

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These three look promising:Nov. 16, 8:30 AM-3:30 PM, the 2007 Bibliographic Services Conference: "Subject Access - Out of Control?"Dec. 10, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM a workshop by Ed Sperr on "Widgets, Mashups and Web Services", a kind of companion to the "Exploding Your OPAC" class of October 25.Dec. 12, 10-11 AM, a webinar on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI).

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Steven just informed me that the FAST Authorities Database is available as a public Web site. I wonder if it will be integrated at some point with the NSDL Metadata Registry.

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Via ngc4lib, a a lucid suggestion from Joseph Lucia about building open source library applications.Here's an excerpt:What if, in the U.S., 50 ARL libraries, 20 large public libraries, 20 medium-sized academic libraries, and 20 Oberlin group libraries anted up one full-time technology position for collaborative open source development. That's 110 developers working on library applications with

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On Jon Udell's "Interviews with Innovators" at IT Conversations. Podcast features Beth Jefferson, founder of BiblioCommons, a company that "aims to transform public libraries' online catalogs into environments for social discovery of resources that are cataloged not only by librarians, but also by patrons."Beth was a speaker at 2007 code4lib .

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There's a nice article by Anthony Grafton in the November 6, 2007 New Yorker on the mass digitization of library holding.Here are some of his conclusions:"The supposed universal library, then, will be not a seamless mass of books, easily linked and studied together, but a patchwork of interfaces and databases ... The real challenge now is how to chart the tectonic plates of information that are

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Current.com journalist Caj Larsen hired professional interrogators to waterboard him in front of a TV camera. He was interviewed 11/5/07 on NPRs Talk of the Nation. Also, he explains why he did it in a Huffington Post column.

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Bernie Sloan on web4lib 10/26/07 points to this article by Chicago Tribune "Internet critic" Steve Johnson, and notes the "suprisingly positive" experience had by this otherwise e-book-skeptical English major.Sloan shares this telling excerpt:"I just read 'Pride and Prejudice' on my BlackBerry. And, reader, I liked it. Against all my own prejudices, all my own pride in the history and tradition

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I attended a NELINET workshop with Ed Sperr on October 25 entitled "Exploding Your OPAC ." I posted my notes to the CMS blog in case others our curious.

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