<blockquot e>LibrarianInBlack: Library Websites and Usability Laura Solomon (webmaster for the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library) conducted a usability survey of Ohio public library websites, using Jakob Nielsen’s usability criteria. Her study, “Sinking or Swimming: The State of Web Sites in Ohio’s Public Libraries,” shows that many libraries haven’t focused enough attention on putting the [...]

The Tagomatic – Have You Tagged It? It’s like Amazon reccomendations on a wider scale. Valuable for those classic reference questions.

David Walker: RSS Creator A system that leverages SFX and Metalib to create RSS feeds for any journal or newspaper indexed and abstracted in a library’s subscription databases. Watch the demo (flash). Only then can you truly understand how cool this is.

MPOW has guests fill out a short form when they use one of the computers (students, faculty and staff have their own accounts). I just signed in a new freshman and on my way back to the desk I saw him actually reading the form. It just struck me as strange because at his age [...]

Copyright Expiration Flowchart

Another instant messaging service, great. Google Talk is actually different from AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! in that since it’s based on Jabber it can be used to communicate with other jabber-based services. Also, it works with your Gmail account (email me if you want an invite) so it’s another service without another username and password [...]

Making An RSS Feed is a set of instructions for hand-coding a feed fir those who don’t have software to do it for them.

The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: The Institutional Repository, the Author & the Academy A few weeks ago, I placed a peer-reviewed preprint in SFU’s D-Space called The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Implications and Opportunities for Resource Sharing and sent a note about the article to a few of the listservs I participate in. [...]

Boing Boing: Nobel economist on harm lurking in copyright monopolies Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel-laureate economist who has advised the US government on its copyright and patent trade policies and served as Senior VP of the World Bank. In a stirring editorial in the Pakistan Daily Times, Stiglitz talks about the economic irrationality that [...]

I ran off and joined the Carnival!