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 which hosts [...]

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
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Higher Education Alert: The [...]

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 [...]

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.

Blackboard Support [...]

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

Instructional Design for Flow in Online Learning
“This tutorial describes how the instructional design of an online course can facilitate an optimal learning experience for the student.”

Deep Thinking about Weblogs is a nice, non-techy-oriented explanation of blogs with some RSS thrown in.

Conducting a Dialogue talks about software used to monitor a website visitors actions and automatically sends them emails afterwards based on those actions to encourage them to come back. I can see this being good for libraries to learn about usability problems and to direct patrons to less obvious services.

The Directory of Open Access Journals is pretty much what it sounds like, a subject categorized directory of journals available for online access for free. They require that the journals to be peer-reviewed or have editorial quality control and publish research papers.

North Carolina Libraries online: ISSN 0029-2540 from the North Carolina Library Association puts its newsletter online in PDF format. The Spring 2003 edition includes an article by H. Jamane Yeager called “Career Resources for Librarians/Information Professionals” with a lengthy bibliography and Webliography.

How a Travel Site Raised Sales Conversions 30% With 26 Little Site Design Tweaks
This might not look relevant to libraries but with the increasing importance of the Internet in disseminating information, the library’s website is becoming as important as the physical building for serving patrons. Optimizing the experience can bring users back again and raise [...]

Reference on the Road: A Roving Librarian in Loker Commons Brings Library Services to Students describes a rather interesting outreach program. The undergraduate libraries at Harvard are sending reference librarians with wireless inabled laptops to the public areas where students actually gather to offer research help.
Gives new meaning to “telecommuting,” doesn’t it? It’s a [...]

“Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity examines the dynamic intersection of information technology with the world of the arts and design. This intersection has already yielded results of significant cultural and economic value, including innovative architectural and product designs, computer animated films, computer music, computer games, interactive art installations, cross-cultural experimentation, and Web-based [...]

Wikis, like blogs, are an Internet communication tool. They are meant to be created and maintained by more than one person, often as a repository for collected knowledge. In Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool, David Mattison talks about his research on and experience with [...]

HIGHTOWER: Shredding Ashcroft is a opinion column talking about librarians and the USA Patriot Act. It’s very encouraging that someone is listening.

BusinessWeek Online: BW Magazine has devoted an entire issue to Linux and Open Source software this week.
Two paricular favorites of mine are “Next from Open Source: Killer Apps?” and “Programmers Are Like Artists”.
The first discusses the open source applications that are now being built, including corporate software using open source bases that don’t require [...]

An Introduction to Open Source Communities is a research report on Open Source Communities. It looks at “…existing, relevant research, and presents original case studies of two open source projects: TouchGraph and SquirrelMail. It identifies some patterns of collaboration that both of these projects share, and describes how these patterns might apply to other types [...]

Copyfight: the Politics of IP, written by Donna Wentworth and sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, this news blog focuses on the legal and technological innovations of intellectual property.

OPEN MIND: open source is a news blog sponsored by Corante and written by Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier focusing on Open Source software.

Content and Knowledge Management are two very different subjects. Content Management generally refers to the handling of content on a website while Knowledge Management is used for managing the internal information of a group or organization so that it remains useful and available.
Why combine the two topics then? Because of what they have in common. [...]

According to a BILLBOARD article, the new iTunes music service has done amazingly well. It serves as a example that if a half-way decent legal alternative is offered, people will prefer that to file-sharing services.