Posted in Career, Personal on Friday, February 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was one of my volunteer days at the Halldór Laxness Library at the Scandinavia House. At one point a patron came in and asked the floor attendant a question she couldn’t answer. She referred him to me, saying “She’s the librarian.”
That stopped me momentarily. I’d thought of myself as a volunteer, since my contacts [...]
Posted in Conferences, Green, Links on Friday, February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
ACRL is surveying its members about Greening ACRL National Conference 2009!
Posted in Future, Searching, Solutions, Tech on Friday, February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
According to Read Write Web, the news organization Reuters has stepped into the semantic web arena with Open Calais. The application will perform semantic markup on unstructured HTML, extracts people, places, companies, and events, and annotates the metadata. RWW predicts better searching among other outcomes.
Posted in Searching, Solutions on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Carrot is an open source clustering search engine that pulls results from YahooAPI, GoogleAPI, MSN Search API, eTools Meta Search, Alexa Web Search, PubMed, OpenSearch, Lucene index, and SOLR. You can also choose which search algorithm you want to use (from Show Options).
Via Librarian of Fortune.
Posted in Future, Library 2.0, Solutions on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
A report in Campus Technology recaps the 2008 Horizon Report [pdf] of six key technology areas that will likely have a major influence on education:
“Mobile broadband, collaborative Web technologies, and mashups will all significantly impact education over the next five years, along with “grassroots” video, collective intelligence, and “social operating systems.””
Via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian.
Many [...]
Posted in Humor, Tv / Video on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
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Via LibrarianInBlack.
Posted in Clever, Library 2.0, Solutions, tagged maps on Monday, February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OCLC has put together an interesting prototype of a map for looking up facts on international library holdings and more:
“The OCLC WorldMap allows users to select countries of interest, then to compare various library and cultural heritage data by country.
WorldMap will generate interactive graphs that compare several different kinds of data for up to four [...]
Posted in Links, Solutions, Tech, Usability on Monday, February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
…and other ideas from Top 10 obscure Google search tips from Lifehacker.
From American Libraries Direct 1/9/2008.
Posted in Humor, Word soup, tagged ILS on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
My favorite excuse (courtesy of The Excuse Generator) for not doing anything about your clunky ILS is this:
Posted in Blogging, Images, Language, Reference on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
BlewSpace offers a nice, visual way to locate bloggers.
Via LibrarianInBlack.
The Europa Polyglotta map, published in mid-1700s, tries a completely different kind and even more fascinating mapping (for us linguists, at any rate):
“to show the concordances and differences between all the languages spoken in Europe by spelling out the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer [...]
