My husband told me a shocking story last night!! He and his colleagues were debating whether America’s favorite ice cream topping is called “jimmies” or “sprinkles.” One of his colleagues (and I should mention that they’re all early thirties and under) said, we’ll check Wikipedia after lunch. My husband responded, we can’t trust [...]

Handhelds.org - Open Source Operating Systems for Handheld DevicesOur goal is to encourage and facilitate the creation of open source software for use on handheld and wearable computers.

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That’s right, it’s that time of year again! Congrats to this year’s Movers & Shakers! First I want to congratulate my friends:

Transformer (Peter Bromberg)
User-Centered Technologist (David Lee King)
Metadata Man (Tim Spalding)
Open Source Evangelist (Josh Ferraro)

Now, congrats to everyone else!! This is a great honor! Keep shaking up libraries - it’s the only way [...]

Elizabeth McKinney de Garcia, Program Director of Georgia PINES talked to us about how PINES decided to develop their own open-source ILS, Evergreen. Georgia PINES is made up of 49 public library systems which equates to 275 facilities and bookmobiles sharing a joint bibliographic database of nearly 9 million books.
About PINES
The PINES library card is [...]

John Stromquist, Executive Director of the WALDO Consortium talked to us about their decision to go with the Koha ILS and LibLime. WALDO is a multi-type library consortium. Of their membership, there are 12 full members (this means they have a shared ils), 11 associate members (this means they share a union catalog), [...]

Stephen’s Lighthouse: Influential YouTubesHere’s the list of YouTubes I showed or at least had on the list to show at one of the seesions in Florida last week. I find them influential or interesting. There’s a bit of variety.

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Tim Spalding has posted a bit of code to get free book covers for your OPAC by using Google. Godmar Back has given a different example for getting multiple covers at once. The Google Book Search API seems to have taken off with libraries & librarians!
Technorati Tags: google books, google book search api, [...]

Evernote Offers a Backup For Your Brain | Compiler from Wired.com
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After talks by Joe Lucia, Bob Molyneux and Joshua Ferraro we had a Q&A sessions at the VALE symposium. I’m going to put these in note format so that you can hopefully follow who said what:
Q: One person’s enhancement might be another person’s bug - how do you control that with open source?
A:

Joe - [...]

Next up, LibLime’s Joshua Ferraro. Josh talked to us about why LibLime was started and what both LibLime & Koha could do for libraries.

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Why start LibLime?
Josh would often hear librarians saying that they liked the idea of open source, but we have no way to support it. So, Josh started LibLime [...]

Bob Molyneux of Equinox was second to speak at the VALE Symposium the other day.
Bob started by filling us in on the state of the open-source software US public library market which is only about 1%, give or take. He didn’t have the data for academic libraries yet, but he was sure it was [...]

LibraryThing is now using the Google Book Search API and is providing users with a way to search within their books (if they’re part of Google’s collection):
The official Google Blog and the Inside Book Search Blog just announced the new Google Book Search API, with LibraryThing as one of the first implementors. (The others are [...]

This week I was lucky enough to attend an event at The College of New Jersey entitled Next Generation Academic Library System Symposium and hosted by VALE (Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey). The goal of this day was for the members of VALE to decide if they wanted to join in on [...]

Well - wikis are social - but what other title could I give this post? Turns out that WetPaint has added some new social networking features to it’s wiki package.
(Seattle, Wash. – March 10, 2008) Wetpaint, the leading social publishing platform with a network of over 750,000 social sites, today unveiled a [...]

Right now librarians are using wikis to keep track of their conferences and conference schedules (like mine for CIL2008), but Sched.org looks like it would be a much better alternative. Right now it only has a schedule for the SXSW conference, but the site does say “Coming Soonish: Create a Sched for your own [...]

Yippeee!! When I first got my Mac I asked you all to point me to a tool that would work like Evernote for my Mac - well, TechCrunch reports that Evernote for Mac is finally here!!
Downloaded!
[update]Oh no! It’s a private beta! Fingers crossed for an invite![/update]
[update2]Yippee - got me an invite - will update you [...]

30+ Tools For Working With Wordpress Posts30+ tools to help you with everything from saving recurring post layouts to hiding the spoiler at the end of your movie review.
Open Library Developer’s Meeting: One Web Page for Every Book Ever Published

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ReservesDirect: Open Source EReserves SystemReservesDirect is free, open-source software that manages electronic and physical library materials reserved for university courses.

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Free Shipping On…Love Shopping online? Hate Paying Shipping? Us too, that is why we are here.

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I recently spoke with Aaron Swartz and other Library 2.0 Gang members about the Open Library and other Code4Lib conference topics.
You can listen to it via Library Journal or the new Library 2.0 Gang page hosted by Talis.
You can check out my blog post summarizing what Aaron spoke about at the conference if [...]

Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0First Monday - Volume 13, Number 3 - 3 March 2008
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Edge: BETTER THAN FREE By Kevin Kelly

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Yikes!
Via LibraryBytes & Biocultural Science & Management

Flickr & TechSoup have announced a great program!
The Flickr photo sharing service has teamed up with TechSoup Stock to offer premium “pro” accounts to individuals within eligible organizations. The pro accounts are available in packages of either two or five accounts. Organizations must assign these accounts to individuals over 18 years of age, and the [...]

Yesterday I had an interesting chat with my sister about library catalogs. We were talking about the post I made regarding IM & SMS and whether librarians should skip over IM and move on to SMS? I told her about the fact that card catalogs are still being used and she replied with [...]

I was talking to my sister the other day and I asked her if she was on IM during the day. She replied with “IM is so yesterday!” I was a bit taken aback and thought - how can that be? I asked her “Okay, what is today then?” She answered “I don’t [...]