Library Futures Conference (The Speculist)

The Speculist: Conference Day 1

Workstation Ergonomics

HealthyComputing - Keyboard Setup and Usage

DLF and Wikipedia

Via LIS-News: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home » Wikipedia intrigues Peter Brantley, executive director of the Digital Library Federation

Against perpetual copyright - Lessig Wiki

From LISNews: Against perpetual copyright - Lessig Wiki

O'Reilly Radar

O'Reilly Radar
seems like excellent source for late-breaking IT news. Someone just posted here an announcement about a new feature of Google maps: Streetside View based ImmersiveMedia technology, where you can get a human-scale view of walking down the street as featured in a Google map̮

OPAC 2.0 discussion at Yale

I'm hoping to get a wider discussion going about functional requirements for Yale's "next generation OPAC". This discussion paper in Sakai might be a start. The requirements table in particular could lend itself to communal effort [but note that the deeplinks in classesV2 don't quite make it through all the way].

Google Gadgets, Cold Fusion, and Adam Brin

Mike Cunningham writes about "Getting Stuff into the OPAC", specifically by using ColdFusion, javascript, the MARC 970 field, and DOM. He credits Adam Brin at Bryn Mawr, i.e., the devloper of the "Search Triad" Google gadget, with providing some useful tips. Here's the Google Gadgets API.

Philly 2007 July

Here's a Google map with vectors and pushpins inserted

Everything is Miscellaneous

See my brief review at LibraryThing.

Steve Ettlinger Deconstructs the Twinki

Cited by LIS News, Steve Ettlinger interviewed by Moira Gunn at IT Conversations. Ettlinger is author of Twinkie, Deconstructed.

Google Notebook

The Wine Thief

The Wine Thief has second location now at 181 Crown St.

Craigs List posting

Supentown air conditioner

Karen Coyle on Library in Digital Universe

Diane Hillman recommends Karen Coyle 3/12/07 interview with Scott Mace of Open Source Conversations. See Coyle's blog posting on this.

Me listening to podcast on April 1 .... Libraries as early implementers of standards and semantic markup. LC, for example, started distributing standardized catalog cards in 1901.

Major advantages ... libraries accustomed to working as collective. Also (and this comes up later in conversation), because expertise always has context, and libraries have defined constituencies, easier for libraries to set boundaries on authoritative information. Wikipedia, trying to be all things to all people, lacks such context.

Disadvantage, not used to working with entities outside the library world.

Google Book project a mixed blessing. Open Content Alliance in part designed to remedy lack of transparency (i.e., difficulty sharing Google's digital files among different libraries).

Importance of OpenURL technology, dynamic linking of global Web content with local library holdings.

NISO migrating from heavy to less-formal light-weight standards development. In current environment, things move to quickly to build elaborate standards.

Laptops

My Dell Inspiron 5100 keeps overheating and shutting itself down, especially when I copy CDs to the hard drive. Need to force air through the vents, or buy one of these Laptop Desks or Notebook Cooler, or, if that doesn't work, buy a new laptop. A Thinkpad maybe? Or a MacBook?