The Information Design approach to Web development from Digital Web Magazine is an interesting look at information management from a non-librarian. It’s important to remember that the business world has realized that it needs our expertise, we just haven’t been very good at letting them know it is our expertise.

I mentioned the Baen Free Library before discussing its support of fair-use. Further investigations of reading books on using PDAs has proven to be highly addictive. There is a fee-based system, Webscription.net where electronic copies of many of Baen’s holding can be bought and downloaded for $4 or $5 (US) each. Other options include: OmniRead [...]

Educause Review is a bimonthly magazine published both in print and on the web. The educational focus may not seem relevant for many libraries but the technical views are. There are a number of articles of interest in the online archives. A few particular ones are: “Commonsense Ideas from an Online Survivor”, March/April 2002 ” [...]

FurdLog is a weblog maintained by a professor at MIT that looks at current events but focuses mostly on copyright matters. Intellectual “Property” in the Digital Age is a category of annotated links.

An html version of a presentation on edubloggiing was posted by Geof and Randy. They’ve also posted pdfs of articles: “Throw Another Blog on the Wire” and ?Weblogging on Campus and Beyond?. Edublogging, if you are wondering involves using blogs, or Internet-based journals, in association with classes.

The Library Web Manager’s Reference Center is a great collection of resources contributed by the members of the Web4Lib list. It makes an impressive reference source.

“As a group, we selected coffee services in libraries as the issue of our final presentation for the Hypatia Conference. We investigated the general history of coffee and coffeehouses, the history of the coffee service trend, implementation of the coffee concept, surveyed listservs regarding coffee shops in libraries, the pros and cons of coffee shops [...]

A request for useful online resources for electronic librarians returned a good list. The requestor was kind enough to post a summary and to allow me post it here. All html, including links, was done by me. If there is a mistake, please let me know. All of the content is as he wrote it, [...]

An article calledHow can I use RSS started a discussion on the Web4Lib list about how libraries can use RSS feeds. The Utah State Library offers Utah and National Public Library News. Hartford Public Library in Connecticut and Hekman Library website of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary in Michigan display the top news stories. [...]

This article is a very brief and general discussion of XML and how you can use it.