On getting staff members to buy into a new technology | TechEssence.Info
I broke every one of these rules in the same project. Needless to say, it failed miserably.

HigherEd BlogCon 2006: Know Enough to Be Dangerous by Steve Lawson

Know Enough to be Dangerous: Tools for taking control of HTML and CSS
A presentation for HigherEd BlogCon 2006 in the Websites & Web Development track by Steve Lawson, Humanities Librarian, Colorado College

Open Access News

Paradise Publishers Inc, a web based publishing firm acquired the website www.Free-eBooks.net earlier this month….The site currently generates over 26 million hits monthly and Paradise Publishers Inc. plans to increase traffic tremendously by creating the world’s largest free e-book online database. “We want to be people’s source of information” says Nicolas Gremion, [...]

Boing Boing: Consumer Electronics Association ad campaign slams RIAA

The Consumer Electronics Association is taking a brave stand against the entertainment companies’ attacks on the public’s right to record from digital radio. This is brilliant — and maybe it signals that the CEA’s members will stop manufacturing technnoloogy that controls their customers instead of empowering them.
You [...]

Boing Boing: Major Canadian artists reject suing fans and crippling CDs

Remember when all of those Canadian record labels walked out on CRIA, the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA? Well, a bunch of them just launched a new coalition for Canadian musicians called the “Canadian Music Creators Coaltion,” and their founding principles are pretty rad:

Suing Our [...]

Open Stacks
Now introducing the official SirsiDynix Institute podcast feed!
I’ve really been enjoying the SirsiDynix Institute Web seminars that have been going on this year. They have timely subjects and draw their speakers from the library bloggers.

OA Librarian: Stats Canada electronic docs at no charge!
Effective April 24, all electronic publications on Statistics Canada’s Web site will be available free of charge.

Drupal is an open-source content management system for managing websites. It is also the basis for the most advanced library websites being published these days (Picture users only logging once and having access to their account and all of the library’s services.). drupalib is a site for the community of those lucky enough to have [...]

LISNews.org | Story time for Grown-Ups
As an adult with no children, I don’t find much at the public libraries to interest me. Adult-oriented programs may be increasingly important as life-spans lengthen and others also put off starting families. Children are the voters of the future but we’re missing out on a broad spectrum of [...]

librarian.net » standards compliant library websites has some good links. I’ve put off posting this until I could put some real thought into it but that doesn’t look like it’ll be happening soon.
I can add that I converted our library web manager to standards when it took me 15 minutes to skin the library’s [...]

Save the Internet

Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet’s First Amendment — a principle called “Network neutrality” that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you — based on what site pays them the most. Your local library shouldn’t have to outbid Barnes [...]

WebHome < Payitforward < TWiki
So what I am proposing is that if you want to try this experiment put your name in the ring with the area you would like to cover. I really like the philosphy that there is always someone that knows more than you. I am hoping that the reverse is true [...]

Welcome to the Blogging Libraries Wiki – Blogging Libraries
Some of you may remember the links page I maintained for libraries with blogs. Well, that page was becoming a bit difficult to maintain and I thought it would be nice if people could simply add their own links to library blogs, so this wiki was born!

Soon [...]

345 Free Online Programming Books

Building Best Practice Websites: 101 Must Have Checklists – New Web Site Essentials Book – web design Sacramento, web site design, development, accessibility graphics, Sacramento, Carmichael, California, accessible websites – SKDesigns
… a new book on essentials for Web sites, including planning, creating, designing, and long-term management. Now in production with the publisher, SitePoint Books, [...]

Sandboxes are invaluable for trying out new technology. I miss mine *sigh*.

Windows Live Academic Search – LJ Tech Blog – Blog on LibraryJournal.com – 670000067
Microsoft launched their Windows Live Academic Search. A competitor to Google Scholar, the site searches academic journal articles.
Have to explore this later.

West Liberty Public Library Migrates to Koha | oss4lib
… the West Liberty Public Library located in Iowa, USA has migrated to Koha, the first open-source Integrated Library System. This makes West Liberty the second public library system in the US to switch to Koha.
Tim McMahon, Technical Services librarian at West Liberty Public, said “We [...]

Boing Boing: EFF publishes “7 Years Under the DMCA” paper

DMCA Delays Disclosure of Sony-BMG “Rootkit” Vulnerability
Cyber-Security Czar Notes Chill on Research
Censorware Research Obstructed
Scientists and Programmers Withhold Research
Foreign Scientists Avoid U.S.
IEEE Wrestles with DMCA

Wiki | TechEssence.Info
Wikis are the ideal tool for harnessing the collective intelligence [of your staff]. Wiki is Web-based, easy to set up, and allows people with little tech-savvy to add information. If you have a group of people who would benefit from sharing knowledge and ideas online, you may wish to consider a wiki [...]

The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2006 Update
With statistics!