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Monday, October 31, 2005

Stantunes

Stanford launches iTunes service

Stanford has launched an iTunes-based service for downloading news, lectures, and related material.

Now that’s shifted!

Library Links — laura


Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Internet Librarian: List of Notes

Thanks to the dedicated (obsessed?) bloggers at IL there is a plethera of information out for those of use stuck at home. Below is a list of some I expect to need in the near future.

Library Links — laura


Tuesday, October 25, 2005

30 search tips in 40 minutes

internet librarian 05: 30 search tips in 40 minutes. List of all 30.

I’m so jealous of those who got to go. Maybe next year.

Library Links — laura


Tuesday, October 18, 2005

RSS4Lib:: Making a Feed Where None Exists

RSS4Lib:: Making a Feed Where None Exists

Give it a web page and it will do its best to parse the page into content and fluff and create an RSS feed of the content. In a few trials, it did pretty well, though it erred on the side of omitting good content rather than providing unwanted fluff.

Web Tools — laura


Tips For Keeping Up

As busy as we all are and as many great sources of library information as there are it can get overwhelming. If you keep up with the Carnival of the InfoSciences and This Week in LibraryBlogland (now with feeds!) , you’ll get a good overview.

Library Links — laura


Thursday, October 13, 2005

What we are

I have seen the enemy, and she is me.

That’s just how librarians are - beneath our buns, or our mohawks, or our seven veils, we are all fierce-hearted fighters for intellectual freedom. And we always have been.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen it expressed this well.

Library Links — laura


Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Why We Need Institutional Repositories

Why We Need Institutional Repositories

This new generation of institutional repositories does not compete with existing databases, it complements and extends them. At the same time, it reaffirms the position of an institution (in the case of a university) as a scholarly center and community hub.

Open Access — laura


Sunday, October 9, 2005

google reader

blogwithoutalibrary.net » Blog Archive » google reader

The review Amanda links to is excellent but leaves out my personal pet peeve. There’s no “Mark all Read” feature. I imported about 200 feeds and every item is showing new. Also, there’s no way to hide “read” items. So I wind up paging through them to get to the unread ones.

Web Tools — laura


Introducing Tagyu :: Adam Kalsey

Introducing Tagyu :: Adam Kalsey

The basic premise of Tagyu is to let other people help you tag your content. Tagyu comapres what you’re writing to what other people around the web are writing. It looks at how they’ve tagged their content and uses that informtion to give you some ideas about how to tag yours.

Emphasis mine.

It’s authority control for folksonomies.

Web Tools — laura


Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Your First Year on the Tenure Track

Your First Year on the Tenure Track: Temperamental Advice for Junior Faculty in Toxic Work Environments

…though my experiences are extraordinary, I believe they could also be shared by others grimly attempting to survive the circumstances of their own dysfunctional workplaces. What you will find in this article is slightly hyperbolic advice wrought from harsh experience and bitter disillusionment with the human race. Gentle readers, you have been warned.

Career Info — laura


Tuesday, October 4, 2005

digitalwatch.org

digitalwatch.org contains articles and other items related to Digital Libraries written/produced by members of the LIS2901 Digital Libraries Seminar within the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.

Interesting information. Here is the same site without the annoying ad frame.

Library Links — laura


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