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Scott Peterson

The Future of Libraries: Short on Books, Long on Tech Read more: http://www.mobiledia.... - 1 views

techland.time.com/...es-short-on-books-long-on-tech

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 27 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 27 Jun 13
     
    "The main floor looks more like a sleek Apple showroom than a stuffy library. And instead of a Genius Bar, there's an Ask Me alcove, where you can get help on everything from laptops to flash drives. Rather than the Dewey system, color-coded walls, stairs and elevators help you find not just books and research papers, but also media rooms, video game collections and even a 3-D printing lab to create plastic models. But the best part? Built with state funds and private donations, it's open to the public. Welcome to the library of the future."
  • Scott Peterson on 05 Jul 13
     
    An article that mainly repeats many current trends in libraries but is notable for appearing in a mainstream publication (Time Magazine) and being surprisingly aware of some new developments such as maker culture.
Megan Durham

Microsoft's Plan to Bring About the Era of Gesture Control | MIT Technology Review - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...out-the-era-of-gesture-control

Professional Development software libraries library technology

shared by Megan Durham on 25 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 25 Oct 12
     
    Motion control: Startup company GestSure uses Kinect for Windows to allow surgeons to look through medical images without having to touch unsterile equipment. While most of the headlines about Microsoft this fall will concern its new operating system, Windows 8, and its new Surface tablet, the company is also working hard on a long-term effort to reinvent the way we interact with existing computers. *I knew my Just Dance skills would pay off!
Scott Peterson

Some big-six publishers refuse to sign new contracts with Amazon - 1 views

paidcontent.org/...sign-new-contracts-with-amazon

shared by Scott Peterson on 12 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 12 Apr 12
     
    At least two of the big-six publishers are refusing to sign new annual contracts with Amazon. While that could result in their "buy" buttons being turned off, it is more likely that the feud will result in less promotion of big-six publishers' titles on the site.
  • anonymous on 13 Apr 12
     
    No real surprise here. With Amazon trying to make deals directly with authors to avoid having to pay big money to these publishers it's no wonder. It's only a matter of time before these big publishers either go out of business or wise up and scale back.
anonymous

MemSQL - 80,000 queries per second - 0 views

www.i-programmer.info/...-80000-queries-per-second.html

database

shared by anonymous on 25 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 25 Jun 12
     
    Even though it's not going to be free and open source, it's cool to see that new blazingly fast databases are being developed. 
Scott Peterson

New York Times article on Kopimism - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ng-to-heart-and-to-church.html

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 16 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 16 Aug 12
     
    A New York times article that covers Kopimism in death.
Megan Durham

Teen Googles his way to new cancer testing method - Your Community - 2 views

www.cbc.ca/...new-cancer-testing-method.html

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shared by Megan Durham on 27 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 27 Aug 12
     
    Yay for open access! CBC Global Header Navigation Andraka used free online science papers to invent an award-winning pancreatic cancer testing procedure. (YouTube / Channel Intel) Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka took home top science fair honours this year for the development of a cancer-testing method found to be 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper and 400 times more sensitive than the current gold-medal standard.
Justin Hopkins

Shareable: Libraries Aren't Dying, They're Evolving - 1 views

www.shareable.net/...the-evolving-library

shared by Justin Hopkins on 26 Jul 12 - No Cached
    • Justin Hopkins
      Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
       
      This is so true. I remember back in the old days of COIN (Columbia Online Information Network). COIN was an ISP that the public library ran. It was free for anyone to use, but if you wanted a decent connection or access to email you had to pay. It was in the days before www. Anyway it was so cool and the perfect example of how libraries were quick to jump on the new tech. I remember seeing the metal and smoked glass cabinet full of modems on the second floor of the old library building out where everyone could see and marvel at it. It had a big sign hanging from the ceiling "COIN".
  • The State of America’s Libraries Report for 2011 notes that library visitation per capita and circulation per capita have both increased in the past 10 years.
  • “In general, libraries embraced the internet right away,” says Raphael. “And not just to provide computers for patrons. They recognized that it became a new tool for librarians.”
  • Scott Peterson on 26 Jul 12
     
    A positive four part blog entry about how libraries are evolving to meet new needs, strengthen communities during bad economic times, and are centers for sharing. Overall I think this article is the most realistic one I've read in some time. It still acknowledges that libraries are doing more with less, and that perceptions of libraries are slow to change.
Janine Gordon

Google helps Chinese avoid censorship - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...1

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shared by Janine Gordon on 04 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Janine Gordon on 04 Jun 12
     
    More Google news, this one on censorship. Interesting how they are working to get around the censorship, I wonder how long it will take for China to stop it in some way.
anonymous

Release notes for Evergreen 2.2.0 - 0 views

evergreen-ils.org/...RELEASE_NOTES_2_2_0.html

evergreen

shared by anonymous on 19 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Z39.50 server target definitions have been removed from the sample opensrf.xml.example file
  • For each entry in z3950/services, map the following XML paths to the corresponding config.z3950_source table column as follows:
  • map the following XML paths to the corresponding config.z3950_attr
  • ...17 more annotations...
  • Custom Org Unit Trees
  • you can condense or re-order the organizational tree into a simpler structure for patrons using the OPAC while maintaining the complex organizational tree that is available to users of the staff client.
  • The basic catalog has been replaced by the Template Toolkit OPAC (TPAC).
  • Auto Suggest in Catalog Search
  • This feature is not turned on by default. You must turn it on in the Admin module.
  • 2.2.4. My Lists The My Lists feature replaces the bookbag feature that was available in versions proior to 2.2. This feature enables you to create temporary and permanent lists; create and edit notes for items in lists; place holds on items in lists; and share lists via RSS feeds and CSV files.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Jun 12
       
      The RSS feed part of this could be particularly useful for libraries that want to maintain an external list of "new books" or whatever. 
  • SMS Text Messaging
  • 2.2.7. Credit Card Payment via Public Catalog Patrons can now use credit cards to pay fines and bills in My Account of the TPAC.
  • A preferred pickup location.
  • 2.2.9. Identify Previously-Checked-Out Items in Search Results When a user is logged into the TPAC and performs a search, this feature indicates in the results set when any of the result items were ever checked out by the logged-in user. Items will only be tagged when the related org setting is enabled and the user has opted in to circ history tracking.
  • The ability to set limits for a single library’s items, regardless of the checkout library.
  • Retarget All Statuses. Similar to Retarget Local Holds, this modifier will attempt to find a local hold to retarget, regardless of the status of the item being checked in. This modifier must be used in conjunction with the Retarget Local Holds modifier.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Jun 12
       
      Does this mean that you can set a preference to fill local holds first? I don't really understand these checkin modifiers...
  • Provides a new library setting for age hold protection to be based on the copy’s active date instead of its create date.
  • Force and Cataloging Recall Holds
  • In version 2.2, you can specify match points between incoming and existing records to better detect matching records and prevent record duplication. You can also create quality controls to ensure that incoming matching records are superior in quality to existing catalog records.
  • You can also print your queue, email your queue, or export your queue as a CSV file.
  • 2.11.10. Auto-Login Supports auto-login in the staff client by adding three new command line parameters:
adrienne_mobius

Affection for PDA | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...eplacing-librarians-discretion

PDA patron driven acquisition academic libraries university presses

shared by adrienne_mobius on 21 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 21 Jun 12
     
    "Approximately 400 to 600 libraries worldwide have switched to a patron-driven system for purchasing new works, and that number is likely to double over the next year and a half, according to Joseph Esposito, a digital publishing consultant who has spent the last nine months studying the implications of PDA with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."
Scott Peterson

Internet search engines drove U.S. librarians to redefine themselves - 0 views

uonews.uoregon.edu/...librarians-redefine-themselves

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 15 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 15 Aug 13
     
    A preview of an upcoming publication it doesn't necessarily appear to cover any new ground but does describe the stages in how a disruptive technology that changes an industry is perceived and takes effect.
Scott Peterson

As textbook costs skyrocket, cheaper rental options surge - 0 views

www.jsonline.com/...tion-b9987329z1-222114771.html

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 13 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 13 Sep 13
     
    Textbook prices have increased several times more than inflation, and it's been an issue for years about new textbooks being required every year with little or no difference. This initiative is largely happening from university bookstores that are trying to stem costs by letting students rent textbooks for large enrollment classes. While a good idea, it seems to only be fighting a flood of costs, in particular as publishers move to electronic textbooks that have the access controlled by them.
Scott Peterson

Brian Kenney: Revisiting the NYPL's Renovation Plan - 0 views

www.publishersweekly.com/...59824-beyond-42nd-street.html

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 15 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 15 Nov 13
     
    An interesting look at the protest over the proposed remodeling of the New York Public Library's central library and the missteps that led to a poor public reception of the proposal, namely in communication and openness.
Scott Peterson

Half of library's books unused in last year - 0 views

www.utsandiego.com/...ry-san-diego-books-circulation

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 17 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 17 Oct 13
     
    The San Diego library is opening a new library; the article laments how half the books have not been used in the last year, and taxpayers still had to pay to move them, but considering some recent research numbers these statistics are actually fairly high.
Megan Durham

The New Supply Chain and Its Implications for Books in Libraries (EDUCAUSE Review) | ED... - 1 views

www.educause.edu/...s-implications-books-libraries

Professional Development library libraries ebooks

shared by Megan Durham on 25 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 25 Sep 12
     
    Joseph J. Esposito is an independent management consultant. Kizer Walker is Director of Collection Development at Cornell University Library. Terry Ehling is Associate Director, Project Muse, at the Johns Hopkins University Press.
anonymous

Skeu It! - 2 views

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design

shared by anonymous on 02 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Oct 12
     
    Via Wikipedia: skeuomorphism is when a product imitates design elements functionally necessary in the original product design, but that becomes ornamental in the new product design This tumblr blog has lots of really amusing examples.
Sharla Lair

Penguin eBooks Now Available to All Libraries via a Crappy Deal with 3M Cloud Library -... - 1 views

www.the-digital-reader.com/...ppy-deal-with-3m-cloud-library

Professional Development ebooks penguin 3M cloud library

shared by Sharla Lair on 13 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 13 Nov 12
     
    Ok. I am seriously tired of the popular fiction/non-fiction side of ebooks. Basically Penguin is saying that they will grant libraries access to their ebooks in the way that will tick off your patrons the most, so that they will never want to use your service. Why does 3M say ok to this? Because Penguin dropped OverDrive earlier this year and this is a new way to entice people to their 3M Cloud Library product. Does MOBIUS really want to work with a company that will accept less?
Megan Durham

New Teen Place opening at Schaumburg Library - 0 views

www.chicagotribune.com/...place-20121122,0,6492476.story

Professional Development library technology teen

shared by Megan Durham on 20 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 20 Nov 12
     
    This teen space was too cool not to share! They have a green screen and a recording space!
Scott Peterson

Storm Damage at NYU Library Offers Lessons for Disaster Planning in the Stack - 0 views

chronicle.com/...135746

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 15 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 15 Nov 12
     
    A general overview about the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and how libraries have responded to it, and about disaster planning in general. While not treading too much new ground, it does show how some ideas and strategies work in practice.
adrienne_mobius

'Social Reading' Projects Bring Commentary Into the Text - Technology - The Chronicle o... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...135908

social reading Open Utopia

shared by adrienne_mobius on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 29 Nov 12
     
    Stephen Duncombe, a professor at New York University, has created a free, online version of Thomas More's Utopia that anyone can browse and annotate. The project is called Open Utopia (http://theopenutopia.org/).
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