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Megan Durham

Responsive web design and libraries - 1 views

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    Most exciting article I've read about responsive web design!
Jennifer Parsons

myliblog: Publishers ask for business models and don't know what a library is - 0 views

  • I recently conducted a focus group with local authors, and put this proposition to them: * Would you consider DONATING a single copy of your ebook file to the library if we agree to... * Preserve, review, recommend, and digitally display it; * Buy an extra copy for every four people who are waiting for it; * Put a "click here to buy" button in our catalog, with the understanding that you'll share in the revenue of the sale (say, we take 10% AND YOU GET 90%). Guess what? They said, "Yes." Are we talking to the right people?
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    Since ALA President Maureen Sullivan threw down the proverbial gauntlet to publishers and they've picked it up, there's been a lot of inspired responses.  Jamie LaRue has a radical one himself-- circumvent the publishers, and ask the authors how they'd like their electronic books to be distributed. It's a bold proposition (posing the question, "Are publishers necessary?"), but certainly a way for libraries to work with authors to maximize their profits.
Scott Peterson

IUG Conference - 1 views

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    I couldn't find a way to link directly to presentations or their materials. Probably the most interesting sessions I attended were: Solving the Complexities of Ebook Record Management in Millennium INN-Reach: Implementing Peer to Peer Functionality Between two INN-Reach Systems The Ebooks presentation was about checking for duplication, quality control, and making sure all the records an institution paid for are present and have valid links. There were a lot of good techniques that could be relayed to our members as a group of best practices. The Peer-To-Peer INN-Reach is a new product that allows two INN-Reach systems to share materials as if they were one. It was a done in Ohio as a response after one consortium added two public libraries and began to see their single INN-Reach server overwhelmed. From what I could tell it works well, with each INN-Reach server able to retain it's own loan rules and identity, but did require all the libraries and pickup locations to be added to both servers, which quickly would present patrons with a very long list of libraries to choose from. I wasn't very clear where the super-union webpac resided; whether on it's own server or produced from both of them. The users that were present seemed happy with it.
Jennifer Parsons

Technology - Suzanne Fischer - Nota Bene: If You 'Discover' Something in an Archive, It... - 1 views

  • Says one curator, "I wish there were more articles headlined 'Thorough, Accurate Cataloging Pays Off!' "
  • So where was this document found? Was it in a suitcase in the attic of Dr. Leale's great-great-great-great granddaughter? Well, no, it was at the National Archives. Was it in a warped metal filing cabinet down a neglected set of stairs labeled "Beware of the Leopard"? No, it was in a box of other incoming correspondence to the Surgeon General, filed alphabetically under "L" for Leale. In short, this document that had been excavated from the depths of the earth with great physical effort was right where it was supposed to be.
  • In the case of the recent press on the Leale report, the report had not yet been catalogued, cutting off discovery for ordinary researchers searching with finding aids and online catalogues.
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  • This is because archivists catalogue not at "item level," a description of every piece of paper, which would take millennia, but at "collection level," a description of the shape of the collection, who owned it,
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    A somewhat lighthearted response to all the excitement about the "discovery" of the Leale report, a report made to the Surgeon General by the first doctor to treat Abraham Lincoln after he was shot at Ford's Theater.   It's very interesting that, even though it was in the collection, where it should be, no one thought to use it in research until now.  
Scott Peterson

The Slap-Your-Head-Simple Secret for Selling More Books - 0 views

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    An interesting article about drumming up interest and using a response and feedback to refine a book before it is published, a process that libraries could help authors with.
Scott Peterson

Supporters rally against Georgia Archives closure - 1 views

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    Beginning November 1st only limited public appointments will be allowed to see the State of Georgia's archives, and the staff of 10 may be reduced. The move is in response to a $730,000 budget cut. The reduction still has to be approved by the legislature, it's unclear how many operating hours the archives will have; state law mandates only every Saturday.
Scott Peterson

Librarian suggests turning the page on longtime reading club winner - 0 views

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    A disappoint article about a library's response to a reading club winner who is perpetually ahead. There is no evidence he is cheating, but because he wins the contest continually the other kids get discouraged and quit. However, rather than discourage the child from his love of reading, I wonder if an alternate idea would be to make leagues, so there is an overall contest but children also complete with reading groups of a similar level.
anonymous

Religious Websites Are Worse for Your Computer than Porn Sites - 1 views

  • Religious sites had and average of 115 software threats, while porn sites only had 25. The religious sites were mostly full of fake anti-virus software, which sounds relatively harmless, but it can leave an unsuspecting user's computer totally vulnerable. Symantec wasn't able to come up with a good explanation for why the religious were such a popular target for the fake software.
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    OH THANK GOODNESS
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    I admit that between the title and Justin's response, I laughed.
anonymous

Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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    That is soooo cool! I want a pair.
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    That's amazing! It reminds me of something similar that some groups have been trying to make for blind people-- using audio, instead of visual prompts (e.g., if there's a bus stop 20 feet ahead of the person, the user would hear "Bus stop at Some Number on Such-and-Such Street." 20 feet or so from them). http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815102854.htm
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    Took less than 24 hours for some genius to come up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840
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    That actually made me LOL! Thanks for that. ;)
Scott Peterson

Brazil prisoners reading books to shorten their sentences - 0 views

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    Interesting idea. I wonder who okays the books they can read.
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    Yeah, I think that might backfire a la "Shawshank Redemption": Dufresne: (in response to another inmate's discovery of "The Count of Monte Cristo") You know what it's about? You'll like it. It's about a prison break. Red: We oughta file that under "Educational" too, oughten we?
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    The benefits of this are pretty clear, and allow some realistic limits, letting prisoners read up to 12 books to take 48 days off of their sentence each year.
Sharla Lair

Bring Courtesy Back to the Workplace - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

  • In the absence of high-touch, personal connections many managers are reporting breakdowns in courtesy and respect, many of which are amplified by the stresses of the workplace. Some common examples I've heard recently include a last-minute request for "urgent" information without regard for what it will take to get it done; a manager ignoring emails and voice mails which delayed resolution of a customer problem; a team that worked all night to meet a budget deadline and then received neither feedback nor thanks for their work; and a manager in Asia who was required to attend regular teleconferences with a North American team that kept her up through the middle of the night, with no acknowledgement of what was involved.
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    Interesting read about courtesy. I know we deal with this on a day-to-day basis with our members and vendors. Are we doing it to each other too?
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