Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries (Curious Expeditions)
Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries (Curious Expeditions): Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries —– the most beautiful libraries….
Read Morethe open library (The Open Library)
About Us (The Open Library): What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every bookâ€â€our planet’s cultural legacy. First, the library must be on the Internet. No physical space could be as big or as universally […]
Read MoreScriblio » About Scriblio
Scriblio » About Scriblio: Scriblio (formerly WPopac) is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. 0000 this is cool, cheap, and worth trying.
Read MorePublic access group challenges Smithsonian over copyrights
Public access group challenges Smithsonian over copyrights: Grabbing pictures of iconic Smithsonian Institution artifacts just got a whole lot easier. Before, if you wanted to get a picture of the Wright Brothers’ plane, you could go to the Smithsonian Images Web site and pay for a print or high-resolution image after clicking through several warnings […]
Read Morefrom Doc: The Living Edge
The Living Edge: David Sifry has just put up The State of the Live Web, April 2007. To explain the Live Web, he points to a pair of pieces I wrote in 2005. If you’d like a more visual explanation, follow the slides from this talk I gave at OSCON last summer, starting here. —– […]
Read MoreYouTube – Finding Time in the PSU Libraries
YouTube – Finding Time in the PSU Libraries: Finding Time in the PSU Libraries
Read MoreTALL blog » Blog Archive » Some real data on Web 2.0 use
TALL blog » Blog Archive » Some real data on Web 2.0 use: The SPIRE project was originally looking into the possibility of using peer-to-peer technologies in UK HE and FE for informal sharing but switched to a more Web 2.0 focus as it became clear that these types of services where already having an […]
Read MoreMain Page – Pentabarf
Main Page – Pentabarf: Welcome to the Pentabarf Wiki. This wiki is used for documenting and supporting Pentabarf, the open source conference planning software. —— Pentabarf is a conference management system. it looks pretty nifty… it is a rails program.
Read MoreLibrary 2.0: An Academic's Perspective: Standards That Don't Help Us – Yet
Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective: Standards That Don’t Help Us – Yet: Here’s a coincidence. Over the past couple of days, I’ve been mulling over the role of standards in our profession and coming to the conclusion that a) existing ACRL standards are inadequate, b) toothless standards are not standards at all, and c) exemplary […]
Read MoreCult Of 2.0
Cult Of 2.0: Confession: I have my own religious mental picture of librarians and libraries and the primary symbol has always been the monk and the monastery. People driven by and dedicated to structure and fundamentals. That’s not all a library is but in truth I believe the majority of what constitutes a library is […]
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