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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]