SlideShare at IL2007
Looks like SlideShare is the tool of choice for the IL presenters this year. You can find many presentations from IL07 already online on SlideShare. Technorati Tags: il2007
Archive | October, 2007
Cool Webmaster Tools
Not being able to attend IL this year, I missed Frank and Darlene’s Cool Tools presentation, but it looks like Cindy did a good write up with links included! Or you can view the slides online.
Patrons’ Frustrations
I just had a short chat with a friend about the catalog at her local library. They used to have a terrible system that didn’t seem to work at all and now they’ve put Aquabrowser on top of it: [09:47] Friend: *sigh* [09:47] Friend: catalogs are so finicky! [09:47] Nicole: yep [09:47] Nicole: what’s the [...]
10 (or so) WebVoyage Hacks
Presented by Ed Corrado of TCNJ – here are the 10 (or so) hacks for the Voyager OPAC (WebVoyage): New Book List by Michael Doran: Shelflister by Michael Doran Spell Checker but not checking against your db – so you can get did you means that aren’t actually in your catalog. (ex at University of [...]
Communication 2.0 at EMA
I presented with Sarah Theimer from Syracuse this morning. Sarah talked about how they use MediaWiki for keeping track of procedures. She started by asking “Will a wiki work?” and her answer was “Sort of” – my answer is YES! It was fun to listen to Sarah because a lot of what she said was [...]
My del.icio.us bookmarks for 2007-10-29
The Hollywood LibrarianThe Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians through Film VIAF – Virtual International Authority FileVIAF is a joint project of the Library of Congress, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, soon the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and OCLC. The project’s goal is to match and link the library authority files. Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get [...]
Sustaining the Digital Library: Symposium
This list of presentations from the Sustaining the Digital Library : Symposium, 13-14 September 2007, University of Edinburgh sounds interesting: 1. Keynote Presentation [pdf], Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries, Emory University Rick asks an interesting question: “Could it be that we are well enough funded to be comfortable with our traditional [...]
Upgrading WordPress
I went from being excited about upgrading to WordPress 2.3 to being very nervous … anyone want to tell me that upgrading won’t break anything?? Technorati Tags: wordpress
OCRopus
I bookmarked this resource ages ago – but apparently it was only recently released: The first official alpha version of Google’s OCRopus scanning software for Linux was released yesterday. OCRopus is built on top of HP’s venerable open-source Tesseract optical character recognition (OCR) engine and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. OCRopus uses Tesseract [...]
They’re listening
I got to hear an update about the new releases of Voyager at today’s conference. One of my biggest complaints about our current system is that it’s ugly – so very very ugly! Now, I have no experience trying to edit the interface of a Voyager system (that’s not my job anymore), but I’ve heard [...]
