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?

Libraries as educational, technological hubs

Via Blake at LISNews.org, from Inside Higher Education, Libraries at the Cutting Edge, e.g., "A quick look at two familiar Web sites will demonstrate that academic libraries now play a vital role in how students and faculty find and gather information via the Web as well as in the stacks. Both Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland offer a full range of online library services, from catalogs (formerly known as “card catalogs") to research help to DRUM — the Digital Repository at Maryland, which provides a permanent online address for computer files and eliminates the need to attach them to e-mail messages. The Julia Rogers Library at Goucher College subscribes to services that provide students with access to over 22,000 online titles, while Baltimore City Community College’s library gives students technology support and online access to research materials."

Public Library Geeks and Web 2.0

Blake at LISnews.org cites from Wired. Excerpt: "Learning 2.0, developed by public services technology director Helene Blowers, has become a surprise grassroots hit, available for free on the web and adopted by dozens of other libraries around the globe." Library staff encouraged to take on 23 Library 2.0 assignments.

"Essential" Knowledge Management sites

31 Essential Knowledge Management Sites as identified by Lucas McDonnel on the unCommon Knowledge blog. Cited in March 28 AL Direct.

Recommended freeware

List of 100 recommended freeware/shareware tools from the Free Geek. Cited in March 28 AL Direct.

Digital Preservation funding cut at LC

The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) has a mandate to “capture, collect, preserve, and provide access to important ‘born-digital’ material and web-based information”. However the Congress has rescinded $47 million in the latest budget, which means another $37 million of matching funds will be lost, for a total of $84 million. James Billington is asking Congress to reconsider. Cited in March 28 AL Direct.

Open Content aggregator (Index Data)

Also from March 28 AL Direct: Index Data is offering free aggregator of open content (e.g. ebooks, open access digital repositories, encyclopedia articles, and human-reviewed Internet resources), using OSS Zebra and Metaproxy and SRU and Z39.50. Note the demo of their MasterKey tool which works off the open content and standards.

Steven Bell on RSS Aggregators

March 28 AL Direct cites PALINET Technology Conversations podcast featuring Steven Bell, Director of the Gutman Library at Philadelphia University (though he seems to have recently been appointed AUL at Temple University). Bell advocates use of open-source RSS-toHTML converter that produces java script, and then plugs in as newsfeed to Blackboard courseware. Also talks about routing blog postings via RSS to library news channel. Bell has written a tutorial on RSS and news aggregators. Maintains that few Americans know what RSS is, and that, once faculty are shown effectiveness in courseware, usually want it.

Koha is Chosen by the Guggenheim Museum — LibLime

Via LIS-News ... Koha is Chosen by the Guggenheim Museum — LibLime

"How Google Books is Changing Academic History" (Guldi)

, blog post by Jo Guldi, cited by Blake in LIS-News 3/23/07.

LIS-News technical details

From the "Journal of Blake", featured in 3/23/07 LISNews

MyLibrary 3.0

Chuck mentioned release of Eric Lease Morgan's MyLibrary 3.0 which includes a perl script that converts resources to RDF