CIL2008, Day 1: Hi Tech + Hi Touch
Speaker: Jenny Levine
Computers and the Internet will not save the world (Clifford Stoll, from 1995) - what’s missing is human contact. This is also true in libraryland.
We know how to do this in our buildings:
- Delft Public Library (DOK)
- they have electronic based contextual digital signage (run off a Wii, of all things)
- they integrate games, etc so it’s clear everything is content
- iTunes booths
- Gaming is a social event - the social aspect happens around the games - not the games themselves
Our jobs - connecting people in these spaces
It’s not the tech - it’s the touch
Clay Shirky’s ...
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David Lee King - April 8, 2008 Author: davidleeking Tags: Computers in Libraries Conferences Future of Libraries cil2008 jennylevine
Computers in Libraries 2008: From WoePac to WowPac (part II)
Computers in Libraries 2008: From WoePac to WowPac (part II)
Unfortunately, I missed the first half of this two-part session, where Roy Tennant and Kate Sheehan spoke about LibraryThing, WorldCat, catalog overlays, and open source ILSs. The second half featured
Cindi Trainor and John Blyberg talking about their approaches to creating and promoting a better online catalog for libraries.
Cindi talked about the options you have - buying something from a vendor, using an open source solution, or using an overlay or add-on like LibraryThing for Libraries. What we have to offer is content - text, digita...
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LibrarianInBlack - April 8, 2008 Author: Sarah Houghton-Jan
CiL 2008: Widgets, Tools, & Doodads for Library Webmasters
Speakers: Darlene Fitcher & Frank Cervone
Firefox:
SafeCache - prevents applications from accessing your browser cache
SafeHistory -prevents applications from viewing browser history
FoxMarks - automatically synchronizes bookmarks
Firefox Environment Backup Extension - synchronize between computers, including other preference settings
Other web tools for collaboration:
Meebo Chat Widget - IM chat for reference; good on the null search page of a OPAC and everywhere else
LinkBunch - put multiple links into one small link
DocSyncer - sync docs on local machine to Google Docs (this means everything)
twhirl - micro...
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eclectic librarian - April 7, 2008 Author: Anna Tags: library cil2008
CiL 2008: What’s New With Federated Search
Speakers: Frank Cervone & Jeff Wisniewski
Cervone gave a brief over-view of federated searching, with Wisniewski giving a demonstration of how it works in the real world (aka University of Pittsburgh library) using WebFeat. UofP library has a basic search front and center on their home page, and then a more advanced searching option under Find Articles. They don’t have a Database A-Z list because users either don’t know what database means in this context or can’t pick from the hundreds available.
Cervone demonstrated the trends in using meta search, which seems to go up and down, but over-all is goin...
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eclectic librarian - April 7, 2008 Author: Anna Tags: library cil2008
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Sindicación de contenidos o la información boomerang
El pasado viernes impartí un curso sobre Sindicación de contenidos para profesionales de la información, dentro del plan de formación de la Red de Bibliotecas Públicas de Galicia, como siempre sucede, las preguntas y comentarios de los alumnos, no solo enriquecen al docente, sino que además nos hacen plantearnos nuevas cuestiones y profundizar en aspectos que pasamos por alto.
De manera generalizada, una de las posibilidades más atractivas de la sindicación de contenidos para las bibliotecas, es su uso en los catálogos automatizados, el hecho de poder sindicar temáticas del catálogo, palabras claves, o incluso b...
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Deakialli DocuMental - April 7, 2008 Author: Catuxa Tags: Internet Biblioteca 2.0 catalogos cursos OPACs rss sindicacion
UUGI detroit day 2
Iblink update (do you know what an iblink is?)SD will continue development of the iBistro iLink product as a PAC. this reassured a lot of folks, me included. Long story.nice new features announced:my account and renew my items same page holds delivery by mail optionkeep "all on this page"online user registration, really, no work-around!no hold button if no copies are holdable (!) yay!!standard CSSAutomated calling updatenew language field in user account will allow calls to be made in native languagenew improved text to voice engines. yay again!Ibistro customizationI got enough info to klug code to remove the annoying disp...
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rambleonsylvie - April 7, 2008 Tags: library-20 library2.0 library 2.0 libraries policies customers
April Showers Bring Link Flowers
The Library of Congress posted a Webcast about their marvelous Flickr project. Also see their FAQ, which lists the technical details.
Peter Murray (aka “Disruptive Technology Library Jester”) has a good roundup of OPAC replacements and wrappers from his excellent presentation at the NISO “Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards” conference last week.
In LibraryThing you can now browse the complete libraries of the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and Susan B. Anthony, thanks to the “Legacy Library” project. After browsing Hemingway’s library, I’m alread...
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Free Range Librarian - April 7, 2008 Author: K.G. Schneider Tags: Librarianship Linkalicious
Metadati, interoperabilità e social software
In questo momento mi sto occupando molto di metadati: formati, schemi, crosswalk* e via dicendo. Non ci si rende mai abbastanza conto di quale mostruosa varietà di formati più meno locali i vari provider adoperino, finché non si è costretti ad esaminarli e a provare a tradurli in un quache schema intermedio che consenta l’interoperabilità.
Per fortuna mi accorgo che anche altri in questo preciso momento storico si stanno occupando della stessa problematica e qualcosa mi dice che cominciamo ad avvicinarci al punto in cui la babele dei meta-linguaggi dovrà necessariamente dotarsi di un traduttore universale che ...
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The Geek Librarian - April 6, 2008 Author: bonaria Tags: Digital Preservation E-journals Information Architecture Library Library Tools Metadata OPAC Open Source Web Web 2.0 Web Tools Wiki blog crosswalk digital library dublin core interoperability user experience wordpress
The six magic words
A lot of library-school students ask me wide-eyed how I learn what I know about computers and programming and miscellaneous stuff. When I tell them “Accidentally, sometimes because I had to, sometimes because I was just curious,” they look disappointed.
What? Do they think I can show them the Yellow Brick Road to library geekdom, like some kind of fat hippie Glinda? I can’t. There ain’t no such thing.
There are, however, six magic words. Be very careful with them; they are extraordinarily powerful.
You will be careful, right?
Okay, then. The six magic words are, “Hmmm. I wonder how that works?...
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Caveat Lector - April 4, 2008 Author: Dorothea Tags: Computers Librariana
State of the ILS
Marshall Breeding provides his annual overview of the shifts and trends in the world of the Integrated Library System (ILS) in the current issue of Library Journal.
Of interest is the definite movement of the open source systems, Koha and Evergreen, into the mix. I’m surprised that they haven’t made this much impact in the past year or two, but I suspect that contracts and switching effort has made the library world very hesitant to try out new technologies at the level of the ILS and OPAC until they sense that others are using them effectively.
We could stand more experimenting, even on the sandbox levelR...
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LibrarySupportStaff.Org - April 4, 2008 Author: Rick Tags: ILS Libraries OPAC Open Source Software Statistics
LibraryThing for Libraries, at CIL, with a new feature!
LibraryThing will be at the Computers in Libraries conference in Washington, D.C. next week. We're showing off LibraryThing for Libraries (LTFL) as exhibitors, demoing the enhancements available to libraries to make their online systems more Web 2.0., with a brand new feature.If you're in the DC area, and are interested in coming and seeing how LTFL works within OPACs, or witnessing our rhinosaursi upgrade (now with 100% more roars!), you're in luck. We have free exhibit tickets, which gets you in to the exhibit hall (but not the conference sessions). Email me if you'd like to attend: sonya@librarything.com.Computers in Li...
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Thing-ology (LibraryThing's ideas blog) - April 3, 2008 Tags: CIL2008 conference librarything for libraries rhinos Computers in Libraries
UK Libraries & Web 2.0 Opacs
The University of Huddersfield have put various neat Web 2.0 hacks in place on their (Horizon) OPAC - see the Horizon/HIP category on Dave Pattern's blog. Last year Dave was considering putting together a package of these hacks that other libraries could use; I don't know where he's got to on that.
Source: Forum - Library 2.0 - April 2, 2008 Author: Deborah Fitchett
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog Update (4/2/08)
The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers.
Especially interesting are: "Adventures in Open Data," "Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries," "The Australian METS Profile—A Journey about Metadata," "The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation," "Journals at bepress: New...
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DigitalKoans - April 2, 2008 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Digital Scholarship Publications Scholarly Communication
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog April 2, 2008
Next Weblog update on 5/7/08.
Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 71. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2008.
The Code4Lib Journal, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Toward Element-Level Interoperability in Bibliographic Metadata" and other articles.
College & Research Libraries News 69, no. 3 (2008): Includes "ETDs, Scholarly Communication and Campus Collaboration" and other articles.
Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 8, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Library Access to Scholarship: Harvard & Institutional Repositories," "Old Media/New Me...
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (Atom/RSS) - April 2, 2008 Author: Charles Tags: SEPW
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog Update (4/2/08)
The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers.
Especially interesting are: "Adventures in Open Data," "Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries," "The Australian METS Profile—A Journey about Metadata," "The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation," "Journals at bepress: New...
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DigitalKoans - April 2, 2008 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Digital Scholarship Publications Scholarly Communication
UK Libraries & Web 2.0 Opacs
I am wondering if there are any libraries in the UK that have made use of Web 2.0 in their OPACs and which vendors offer such functionality. I am aware of Polaris (Ex Libris) and Encore (Innovative Interfaces) but as far as I am aware they have not yet released generally.
Any comments would be appreciated!!
Source: Forum - Library 2.0 - April 2, 2008 Author: RichardJS
Bråda dagar
Det råder bråda dagar… på tåget på väg till Stockholm och Inspirationsdagen för Samsökbiblioteken. Jag har blivit ombedd att prata lite om vårt arbete med MetaLib. Det är oundvikligt att prata om hela vårt upplägg så jag kommer att lägga upp det hela enligt följande.
SFX/MetaLibs roll som administrativa system för att underlätta vårt arbete med e-resurser.
Våra integrationsprojekt : konceptet att strukturellt och grafiskt inordna externa verktyg.
MetaLibs Webbtjänster: Samsökning från OPAC & presentation av HJ forskares forskningsresultat på personsidor.
Direktsökning / Sökwidgets : har...
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betabib - April 2, 2008 Author: daniel.forsman Tags: Övrigt cil2008 Metalib
Enrichir un Opac HIP
Suite d’une discussion que j’ai eu aujourd’hui: c’est parfaitement possible, bien au-delà de ce que propose le fournisseur en standard. Je veux donc bien qu’on me dise qu’on n’a pas souhaité le faire, pour tout un tas de raisons qui peuvent être très bonnes (ressources humaines, en particulier); je ne veux pas entendre que ce n’est pas possible.
Il est possible d’en enrichir les contenus, et aussi les fonctionnalités.
Le meilleur exemple est à mes yeux le catalogue de la BU Anglaise d’Huddersfield, géré par Dave Pattern (on ne peut attendre que de bonnes c...
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/home/nicomo/pro/notes - April 1, 2008 Author: nicolas.morin Tags: Uncategorized dave pattern HIP huddersfield OPAC
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Top 100 Free Gutenberg Books
This is an interesting list to review. (Thanks Blake)
Project Gutenberg lists the top 100 free e-book downloads in these categories:
Top 100 EBooks yesterday
Top 100 Authors yesterday
Top 100 EBooks last 7 days
Top 100 Authors last 7 days
Top 100 EBooks last 30 days
Top 100 Authors last 30 days
I can imagine a few uses for these lists.
1. Are they reflective of our collections? I was surprised at the titles.
2. Are they classics in the usual defintion of the term?
3. Should they be catalogued and added to our OPAC's for additional discovery by our users?
4. Is there some use for this as a promotional tool for e-books?
Stephen
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Stephen - March 31, 2008 Author: stephen
PLA 2008, Day 3: It Ain’t Necessarily So: Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship
Speakers: George Needham and Joan Frye Williams
Aside - if you’ve never heard them speak, you need to. They are great presenters, and have great things to say. The combination is awesome!
Aside - George pulled up iTunes before the presentation and is playing some cool blues as background music. What a cool way to add a certain feel to a room!
Joan started by reviewing the “presentation policies” - spoofing all the rules that libraries have
“Legacy Librarianship” describes the fundamental truths learned in library school, handed down through the generations.
Some of our basic assumptions of lib...
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David Lee King - March 30, 2008 Author: davidleeking Tags: Conferences Future of Libraries pla2008 pla08
Announcing Scriblio on Libology
Libology’s Scriblio installation.
Scriblio, the open-source Library OPAC that runs on a WordPress installation, has been installed on Libology. Several notes about this software installation:
The library catalog contained within this installation of Scriblio is Capital University’s, located in Columbus, Ohio. I could have used any of dozens of libraries, but since I work there, it made sense to create something I could use on a regular basis.
The software is fairly close to the default installation, although I plan to tweak the design over the next few weeks. I have several projects on my plate, and I am...
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LibrarySupportStaff.Org - March 30, 2008 Author: Rick Tags: Libraries Library 2.0 OPAC Open Source Software Web Design
Announcing Libology
And now the announcement I alluded to a couple of weeks ago…
Libology.com is a new web site that I have begun work on. The focus of the site is described by its tag line : “Tools and Ideas for Libraries”. Basically, it will be a showcase for various library technologies, as well as a “sandbox” for me to try out technology that I think would apply well to libraries. I have a couple of other ideas for the site, but we will see once I get those elements fleshed out.
The site is pretty bare, with only the main page in place. However, the first piece of technology has been installed and i...
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LibrarySupportStaff.Org - March 30, 2008 Author: Rick Tags: Libraries Library 2.0 Online Services Software Web Design
in preparation for the first part of the 03 April session
What are the biggest problems with current OPACs/ILS and what do you think of the recommendations to improve them and how some libraries are respondi
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pligg - all - March 29, 2008 Tags: Public Libraries
Blacklight-0.2
As seen at Rubyforge: Blacklight is "a next generation library catalog written in ruby, using solr as the underlying search engine. All you have to do is export your marc records, index them with the scripts provided, start up ruby on rails, and you're on your way to faceted browsing bliss."
Links to a demo, docs, and the project list are all available at blacklight.rubyforge.org.
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - March 28, 2008 Author: dchud Tags: Information Retrieval MARC OPAC Ruby
Omslagsbilder från AdLibris i Opac
Sedan i december har vi börjat använda omslagsbilder från AdLibris i vår OPAC JULIA. AdLibris är vänliga och låter oss använda bilderna mot att vi länkar till dem från bilden. Tillsammans med omslagsbilderna från Amazons webbtjänst har vi nu omslagsbilder för väldigt många titlar. För att inte riskera att bryta mot avtalet med Amazon gör vi först en kontroll mot dem om bild (och annan information) finns. Om det inte finns något att hämta där kollar vi om AdLibris har någon bild och om det inte finns något så visas inget.
Under perioden som vi testat det hela har vi inte upptäckt några problem. Lä...
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betabib - March 28, 2008 Author: daniel.forsman Tags: Övrigt OPAC
De la widgetisation de nos catalogues
Sur les traces de la BU d’angers, j’avais déjà évoqué les moyens + l’interet de rendre nos catalogues widgetisables.
Je rajoute : même si vous ne voyez pas trop l’interet, c’est une excellente facon de comprendre comment votre catalogue marche (via votre OPAC) et ca vous donnera des réponses à d’autres questions.
Via pintini, un excellent ppt pour créer des widgets dans google :
J’ai jeté un oeil, et là, miracle, parmi toutes les bibliothèques widgetisées, j’en ai trouvé une qui a su passer au Niveau supérieur !!
LA NCSU Libraries Catalog
Chez eux, les résul...
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Des Bibliothèques 2.0 - March 28, 2008 Author: bibliotheque20 Tags: ILS SIGB bibliothèque bibliothèque 2.0 bibliothèques 2.0 bibliothécaire 2.0 librarian 2.0 library library 2.0
Towards a modern, functional Opac
Aaron Schmidt has used quite a few library OPACs. He's also used and sought out the best of the open web. You’ve probably done the same and like him, you’ve probably been dismayed at the disparity between the two worlds. The open web can be fun and inspiring. Would you say the same of our OPACs? He's thought about what OPACs should be like in bits and pieces and decided to assemble them here.
A Problem
Besides all of the small, simple usability enhancements OPACs need (listed way below) a big concern about library websites and OPACs is the distracting transition between the two. You know the routine. Ubiquitous “Cli...
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LISNews.org - March 27, 2008 Author: Blake Tags: Cataloging Information Architecture Information Retrieval Internet Technology
