There is a SirsiDynix Institute that sounds pretty interesting on the 2nd of October. I have an appointment in the AM, so I probably won’t be able to attend , but you can: At the Elbow: Understanding Users’ Perception of Process and Effort Presented by: Ulla de Stricker "”Consultant, de Stricker Associates Date : Oct [...]
Towards an Open Source Archival Repository and Preservation SystemRecommendations on the Implementation of an Open Source Digital Archival and Preservation System and on Related Software Development More of my links
I’m catching up on my podcasts (mostly because I had to take the train into the city today) and I got to listen to a great IT Conversation with Jeff Bonforte from Yahoo!. Jeff starts out by telling us that anger is the most untapped emotion in start ups and innovation – and that’s unfortunate [...]
First – Amen to Dorothea! Every one in a while I read something on someone else’s blog that makes me think – that’s what I’ve been thinking but unable to put into words! Dorothea’s Training-Wheels Culture post is one of those posts. Dorothea’s post starts by pointing to the results of my library school survey. [...]
Color Schemes, Color Palettes, Color TheoryThe Canonical List of Online Color Resources for Designers (updated periodically with neat stuff) The Full System: Note taking, scheduling, and studying Beyond Wikipedia: 20 References You Cant Do Without AutoCat ListservRead posts from Autocat without subscribing. More of my links
xqOAI – Open Source Software at Princeton University Library – TracxqOAI is an XQuery-based data service provider conforming fully to the OAI-PMH 2.0 specification. It provides harvestable OAI-Dublin Core XML records. Lola: Learning Objects Learning ActivitiesLoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. On the Dublin Core Front: The Catalog’s Last [...]
Tomorrow the new WordPress 2.3 will be released. I’m excited, and a bit annoyed. Why is the release on a Monday? Why wasn’t it on Saturday so I had the weekend to upgrade and make the necessary changes? Well, I guess I’ll be waiting until next weekend to upgrade. If you have WordPress, make sure [...]
Yesterday I gave a presentation at a special library on how to use the power of blogs and wikis to improve communication and collaboration within your organization. The slides are online, but if you’ve ever attended one of my talks, you’ll know that the slides are just a quick intro. The meat of the presentation [...]
One of the great things about doing hands on workshops is that there is always someone there to push you learn something you didn’t know! Or someone there to tell you something you didn’t know. Now, some instructors may not like that – but I’m all for it! On Tuesday, Tim Siftar of Drexel University [...]
As I mentioned earlier, I gave a Tech Topics session last night for the Philadelphia SLA Chapter. Well, a few hours before I left work for Philadelphia, I got an email informing me that Google had added presentations to their office suite. I have tried to use some other collaborative presentation suites and always ended [...]
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