The Digital Librarian: New Services for Digital Libraries Great ideas!!

Cornell axes Elsevier journals as prices rise Knight, Nature 426, 217 (20 November 2003); doi:10.1038/426217a A top US research university is set to cancel its subscriptions to several hundred scientific journals published by Elsevier in January, in response to spiralling subscription costs…. Netherlands-based Elsevier, which owns a quarter of the global market in scientific and [...]

US House overwhelmingly passes antispam bill Some think it’s for the best, some don’t but at least it’s a step in the right direction.

Rapid Navigation in Online Documents make electronically delivered documents far easier and more practical and faster to work with, by expanding beyond the “help topics” design paradigm. This site covers information structuring; rapid navigation; and designing Help, Web pages, and documents.

A Presentation Architecture for Individualized Content is a little dry but it’s a fascinating look into using the power of XML for individualized computer courses.

If you’re looking for more librarian blogs, libraristic links will keep you busy for quite a while.

Library Journal has a slew of articles worth reading this month. Library Journal – The SUV Idea The Public’s Lobby 11 Keys to Your Statehouse The Expert User Is Dead No more resting on our laurels, librarians in all sectors need to become more active in shaping our own world and the outside one as [...]

Web Design References: Information Architecture has everything you might need to get started on IA.

TechnoBiblio: Free Speech Under Attack… Again Diebold, another company more concerned with controlling the rest of the world than with fixing their product. Joy.

MacMegasite – US downloads beat CD sales Legitimate download sites, such as Apple’s iTunes, the newly relaunched Napster and Musicmatch, are the most popular. They are trying to tempt fans from unauthorised free download services like Kazaa and Morpheus, which have been blamed by the music industry for falling CD sales. This proves my theory [...]