We experienced freedom to explore alternate avenues, to innovate, to take risks in ways that would have been difficult under the direct control of a district council.
The Code4Lib Journal - How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source - 0 views
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patrons made it clear that while they appreciated that computers were a necessary part of a modern library, they did not consider them the most important part.
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Our overall objective was to source a library system which: could be installed before Y2K complications immobilised us, was economical, in terms of both initial purchase and future license and maintenance support fees, ran effectively and fast by dial-up modem on an ordinary telephone line, used up-to-the minute technologies, looked good, and was easy for both staff and public to use, took advantage of new technology to permit members to access our catalogue and their own records from home, and let us link easily to other sources of information – other databases and the Internet. If we could achieve all of these objectives, we’d be well on the way to an excellent service.
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For more information about Koha and how it was developed, see: Ransom, J., Cormack, C., & Blake, R. (2009). How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source. Code4Lib Journal, (7). Retrieved from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1638
ScienceDirect.com - The Journal of Academic Librarianship - Social Bookmarking in Acade... - 0 views
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Social bookmarking can allow academic libraries to network and share appropriate scholarly web sites and work to develop cost-effective electronic resources for reference and curriculum support
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Using social bookmarking within academic libraries has great potential to not only share helpful web sites but can enhance reference both inside and outside the library.
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By utilizing social bookmarking, academic librarians can identify a variety of relevant information in numerous formats that will support students' individual learning styles. Social tagging provides an advantage over spiders and search engines that do not have the human capability to conceptually ascertain a web page's subject.
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Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries - 0 views
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Already libraries are creating RSS feeds for users to subscribe to, including updates on new items in a collection, new services, and new content in subscription databases.
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hybrid applications, where two or more technologies or services are conflated into a completely new, novel service.
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personalized OPAC that includes access to IM, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, tags, and public and private profiles within the library's network.
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Maness, J. (2006). Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and its Implications for Libraries. Webology, 3(2). Retrieved from http://webology.ir/2006/v3n2/a25.html
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2009: Paper: Gow, V. et al., Making ... - 0 views
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New Zealand content difficult to discover, share and use
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DigitalNZ is testing ways to create digital content, collect and share existing digital content, and build smart, freely available search and discovery tools.
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Memory Maker blurs the line between consuming and producing content. What’s sometimes called ‘remix culture’ […]. Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for young people to access and represent the stories of their culture by taking sound and images and recombining them to say something new, something relevant to them. (Sarah Jones, Lunch Box: Software & digital media for learning, November 2008) http://lunchbox.org.nz/2008/11/get-coming-home-on-your-schools-website-wiki-or-blog/)
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Gow, V., Brown, L., Johnston, C., Neale, A., Paynter, G., & Rigby, F. (2009). Making New Zealand Content Easier to Find, Share and Use. In Museums and the Web 2009. Presented at the Museums and the Web 2009, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, Retrieved from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/gow/gow.html
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