tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102632902011-11-26T09:26:46.045-05:00Scrapple no longer meets so this blog has become my own way to keep things that interest me: articles about research libraries providing access to scholarly output, things that happen in my day, stuff I might use in a class some day, things I don't want to forget, you know.Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-66957589802230727112011-03-25T11:27:00.000-04:002011-03-25T11:27:52.966-04:00

Latest news on the stm publishing industry from scope e knowledge center pvt ltd"It showed that one in four UK academic publishers were already seeing 10 percent of their total book revenue coming from e-books in 2011, with double that predicting this would be the case in 2012." That means that 3 out of 4 get less than 10% of their revenue from e-books.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-761598026888950372011-02-28T16:49:00.000-05:002011-02-28T16:49:57.843-05:00

"The internationally recognized series of Horizon Reports is part of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, a comprehensive research venture established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years on a variety of sectors around the globe. This volume, the 2011 Horizon Report, examines emerging technologies for their

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-85819983925433586702011-02-28T16:46:00.000-05:002011-02-28T16:46:05.530-05:00

The Golden Mean warns against cloud computing because it robs us of our ability to innovate in our own interest (plus a few other issues are discussed)

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-50882283585691795732011-02-25T06:59:00.000-05:002011-02-25T06:59:10.165-05:00

HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Event Marketing

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-2682604333067833562011-02-25T06:51:00.000-05:002011-02-25T06:51:12.275-05:00

http://nnlm.gov/sea/newsletter/2011/02/recording-of-february-16-beyondthesea-presentation-pubmed-for-handhelds-is-now-available/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nnlm%2Fseacurrents+%28SEA+Currents%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-46355630942258376592011-02-24T20:38:00.000-05:002011-02-24T20:38:23.703-05:00

Thunderbolt: Everything You Need To Know

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-20401750425834778372011-01-04T16:25:00.000-05:002011-01-04T16:25:28.408-05:00

Does this thing work? It should link to Mike's ID.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-88954460765064967992010-08-05T14:50:00.000-04:002010-08-05T14:50:28.044-04:00

Today we had an evacuation drill. This is different from a mere fire drill. The evacuation drill involves clusters of men in suits standing on the sidewalk watching the event. Guards stop traffic so we can cross the street to our staging point and people run around with clipboards checking off names. These drills are practice to see what happens when we try to evacuate the building if there is a

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-69117664424020531532010-05-02T10:10:00.000-04:002010-05-02T10:10:19.052-04:00

Go To Hellman: What IS a Library, Anyway?Liz, for class to read?

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-54852660092012279302009-09-22T15:15:00.001-04:002009-09-22T15:18:30.706-04:00

Sept 17, 2007 What People Think About When Searching - Dr. Daniel Russell: Google He was a guest lecturer in the Berkeley course INFO 141 Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. He talked about some of the challenges to figuring out what people want from their searches in Google. For example when a person is on the Google home page and types in google as a search term, what do they

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-27719607448057658862009-09-21T17:01:00.000-04:002009-09-21T17:01:37.673-04:00

QR writing breaks the link between a sign and it's meaning; it breaks the contract that written language is based on: viz a stable, shared understanding of a collection of signs and their associated meanings. Of course signs can be creatively adapted but that creativity is by necessity based on shared understanding. otherwise we're all the crazy people on the subway who talk to themselves.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-89492635525775584522009-09-21T16:27:00.000-04:002009-09-21T16:27:19.066-04:00

"Google has agreed to provide On Demand Books, LLC (ODB; www.ondemandbooks.com), the maker of the Espresso Book Machine (EBM), with immediate access to more than 2 million public domain titles in the Google digital files....." Sept 17, 2009 So here's my question: is it an exclusive contract or will Google license their files to other ODB companies.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-81807989753691396462009-08-11T09:37:00.002-04:002009-08-11T09:37:19.543-04:00

here's how hard it is to enter a new post

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-78648342810884736102008-08-19T06:21:00.003-04:002008-08-19T06:41:09.708-04:00

Those great folks at Carnegie Mellon have re-worked CAPTCHA into reCAPTCHApage and, on any site that uses it, every time you retype the text correctly you are correcting an OCR problem in an Internet Archives file. If you want to just contribute to the effort you can go to this site. Why not go in and do a couple today?Of course this is not really so new but seeing the numbers is pretty amazing.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-21553464605953281632008-08-07T09:36:00.000-04:002008-08-07T10:31:47.463-04:00

Readius is a new (not yet available in US) e-book reading device that will be extremely portable. It's not quite there but they are getting real close. There's a NYT article for general description but you need to look at Readius web site to see it held in a person's hand and get a sense of how small it is. Of course there are demos on YouTube. Holds 22 lines of text and does 16 shade grey

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-70702274664566792682008-08-03T11:55:00.004-04:002008-08-03T12:58:14.710-04:00

Apologies to those of you (if there are any) who read this for Scrapple-esque material. This is probably not something we'd talk about at a Scrapple lunch. (But the truth is I also use this blog as kind of bookmark list and I very much want to be able to get back to this.) If you're interested in ideas like the Semantic Web and books like "Thinking on the Web : Berners-Lee, Gödel, and Turing"

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-77003740969621409512008-07-19T23:17:00.002-04:002008-07-19T23:21:28.200-04:00

Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long BlogCheck it out now -- while it's still free.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-11992932125915543402008-06-26T19:06:00.002-04:002008-06-26T19:14:36.638-04:00

A NewScientist blog announces a prototype (by whom???) that is meant to simulate the ergonomics of reading an actual book. They hinge together two more-or-less-kindle-sized screens."The two leaves can be opened and closed to simulate turning pages, or even separated to pass round or compare documents. When the two leaves are folded back, the device shows one display on each side. Simply turning

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-63164145847229911962008-06-20T16:20:00.003-04:002008-06-20T16:26:08.354-04:00

Here's a box for searching Search Oxford Music Online I can't seem to figure out how to put code up here so if you want the code you can look in the source code for this page.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-31313110432471068002008-05-10T10:16:00.006-04:002008-05-10T10:21:21.156-04:00

Well, I tried to add it here but Blogger's right column is too narrow. And it can't go into the heading because the heading only takes 500 characters. So I'm just putting it here as a post. sigh.↑ Grab this Headline Animator

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-85186836181716099942008-04-27T08:42:00.005-04:002008-04-27T09:35:29.698-04:00

CQ has joined forces with St. Petersburg Times to create Politifact.com, web site whose mission is "just gimme the truth." They check out claims made in political campaigns and give them ratings like True, Barely True, Mostly True and, my favorite, Pants on Fire.Put a widget on your site to include an RSS feed from their Truth-O-Meter. That's what's generating the feed in the right-hand column on

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-69690311098051293832007-12-28T07:49:00.000-05:002007-12-28T08:00:00.944-05:00

Is it Scrapple? I don't know. It's the kind of thing you don't want to belive. You want to put it out of your head. But I heard this testimony on C-Span radio yesterday.Two years and no action from the State Dept or DoJ. Who are the guys covering this up? Do they not have mothers? sisters? wives? Where is Condoleezza Rice? Where is this country's moral compass?She has created the Jamie Leigh

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-38377278090453968252007-12-20T07:40:00.000-05:002007-12-20T07:53:22.352-05:00

See the free alphabetizing service online at http://alphabetizer.flap.tv/index.php.I know, I know. So, what. I can paste a list into Excel and sort fine. But this thing does more. It has tons of options.You can dump in text separate by:new linecommatabAs it alphabetizes you can have it:Strip HTMLIgnore CaseMake all lowercaseCapitalize first wordRemove Duplicates (cool)Reverse ListRandomizeIgnore

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-17077351267845483952007-12-18T08:18:00.000-05:002007-12-18T08:22:05.502-05:00

This morning I ran into Carrot2 , an "Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine."It has an interesting approach to displaying results from multiple sources. Being built in Poland. Give it a try.And it's open source. How great is that?!

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-22237362755280259462007-12-17T17:15:00.000-05:002007-12-17T17:26:13.339-05:00

There's an absolutely fabulous article in The Code4Lib Journal about what NCSU is doing these days with their catalog. Since JH is in the middle of thinking about what we're going to do when we don't have Horizon to kick around anymore this article caught my eye.If you remember NCSU folks are the one who brought us the faceted 'Endeca-based" catalog a few years ago. Of course they are up to even

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-28703957714322847762007-12-11T12:27:00.000-05:002007-12-11T12:31:19.542-05:00

The Spacetime browser attempts to provide a 3D search space for displaying results. Check out the flash video on their website: http://www.spacetime.com/I downloaded it to my pc. I wasn't too impressed with the initial google image search, however, I did like how you could star multiple images and click on compare. This bought up the images side by side for comparison.The nice thing about the

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-18376336156462058962007-12-11T10:36:00.000-05:002007-12-11T10:45:06.268-05:00

Hi all, been a long time since I posted.  Thought some of you might be interested in Shelfari. If you haven't tried it, it's a social networking site where people share what books they are reading. It is extremely easy to set up. Somebody sent me an invite, though I'm sure you could sign up on the site directly. When I signed up via the link, it asked me if I wanted to import my gmail address

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-86863937664992686272007-12-04T17:38:00.000-05:002007-12-04T18:02:04.774-05:00

Powerlabs is the playground for Powerset, a natural language search engine company. Like so many other companies, right now, they are trying to mash up huge vats of full text with some kind of linguistic knowledgebase to produce a search engine that does more than keyword searching. They opened up to beta testers recently and I applied.They have a very interesting and extremely well done site.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-66796295626662481572007-11-25T09:30:00.000-05:002007-11-25T09:33:09.202-05:00

Here's a video from TrueKnowledge that does a great job of explaining it. These guys not only have a web interface to their query engine, they have an API for querying it. Very cool.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-57062498846853765262007-11-20T11:53:00.001-05:002007-11-20T12:00:15.075-05:00

Just finished reading the recent Newsweek article called ""the Future of Reading", and was intrigued anough to go to amazon to see the Kindle demo. It was so skillfully done that I was positively drooling for one by the end. Be still, my heart! The convenience of being able to tote around 200 books in such a light, portable device was most appealing. I am anxious to see how well the e-ink works

Maureennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-5623797883017684542007-11-04T08:54:00.001-05:002007-11-04T09:38:56.289-05:00

Since we're thinking a lot about authority control and what a post-ILS library system would look like the Twine system in my previous post is pretty interesting stuff. It makes me think about the relationship of authority control to these efforts to extract meaning from massive quantities of text. I'm going to ramble a bit and my knowledge about all of this is a mile wide and an inch deep so, as

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-53222542567468518822007-11-03T08:27:00.000-04:002007-11-04T08:54:02.695-05:00

I haven't written seriously on this blog for quite some time. Most of what I would've put here is finding its way to wikis and RefWork accounts that require JHED authentication. But I'm about to sign up for a Twine account and thought that this page would be a better site to cite as my webpage than my businesscard web page on the library's site. If I get an account I'll come back here and

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-21604923395933155322007-08-20T08:17:00.000-04:002007-08-20T08:25:56.836-04:00

I just noticed this morning that NPR uses OpenURLs for the javascript links that open the audio player but, for the page about the story--the page where you find that link--they use a simple 'storyid' for a php call.Page URL: [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12909121&ft=1&f=1008]Audio URL:[javascript:launchPlayer('12909122', '1', '19-Aug-2007','&topicName=Arts___Culture&

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1066914250211255292007-08-20T07:56:00.000-04:002007-08-20T08:17:30.623-04:00

NPR has a story about a Senate bill that would give the fashion industry copyright protection. It has an interview with Steven Lindner of the New School in NY who says the law is unnecessary. After all, he says, even his 10 year old niece can tell that the Gucci knock-offs they sell on the NY streets aren't leather. In essence his argument is that Gucci and the knock-off artists are going for a

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-7814856400961278432007-03-07T11:22:00.000-05:002007-03-07T11:42:41.791-05:00

Interesting article from BBC about how people in the UK seek and choose health information on the Internet. Core points:Participants skipped drug company sites because they didn't trust themParticipants skipped National Health Service (sort of like NIH) b'cuz on the "first page participants were directed to was a portal or they had too much background or generic content."And "even if a site made

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-37030070796657233942007-01-23T18:13:00.000-05:002007-01-23T18:16:56.348-05:00

Attended a Sundance movie called "Strange Culture" in Second Life yesterday. The movie is about the Steve Kurtz affair, with ramifications that cross art, politics, and science.Pictures from the event are here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/mysterybee/sets/72157594496220699/Information about the project can be found at this website:http://lynnhershman.com/newprojects.htmhttp://festival.sundance.org

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-60592114440153657072007-01-08T16:38:00.000-05:002007-01-08T16:39:29.701-05:00

Hi all,Here is some info about the Stanford Science & Engineering Library in Second Life:http://cybrarycity.blogspot.com/I've also posted some info/instructions on how to log on, etc for librarians

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-22723690449842841832006-12-25T11:37:00.000-05:002006-12-25T11:44:10.852-05:00

Here's a rant about how movies make it look like all computers should be easy to use--anyone can just walk up and use it: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1166597084321241582006-12-20T01:43:00.000-05:002006-12-20T01:44:44.336-05:00

Hmmmm...can I post? Just a test.

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1166056257589631822006-12-13T19:26:00.000-05:002006-12-13T19:30:57.616-05:00

When students find something on the Internet, they usually think it is free (forget the library might have paid thousands of dollars for something), but anyway, I did find come across the complete works of Mozart online now. Here's the blurb from the Internationale Stiftun Mozarteum website:The complete works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are now available for free on the Internet. The resonance of

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1165504242896825612006-12-07T09:25:00.000-05:002006-12-25T11:42:57.386-05:00

I've not written here in waaaay too long. It finally dawned on me that a lot of what I would normally post on Scrapple I've been adding to a library wiki we have here on public interface issues. So I've just picked up what's currently in our 'interesting catalogs' section and pasted it here for your entertainment. We're really on the OPACS suck jag -- at least I am. (but n.b., catalogs have lots

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1164138116600823822006-11-21T14:30:00.000-05:002006-11-21T14:41:56.646-05:00

I've decided to participate in editing a library for Cybrary City. I'm waiting to see if I get the go ahead to include the Stanford name on the project. If not, I'll probably create an Engineering Library Consoritum or perhaps we should create a digital scrapple library.... :)Anyway, here is my avatar looking at a poster from an education poster session. Some other groupst that have buildings:

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1163630717012372822006-11-15T17:42:00.000-05:002006-11-15T17:45:17.043-05:00

For those of you following the development of 'Second Life' (an online community where people are represented with cartoon-like avatars) there is an interesting article in the Technology section of CNN. Some educators are starting to use it help create a sense of community for distance learners.From a Stanford colleague who attended Internet Librarian:According to those who attended Internet

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1162014934775857022006-10-28T01:51:00.000-04:002006-10-29T01:59:17.763-05:00

Wow! I just created a Google search engine for Standards. You can plug these engines into your own webpages. I'm thinking about including one of these in my guides.

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1161920352014347922006-10-26T23:34:00.000-04:002006-10-26T23:39:12.036-04:00

Google now cas a customizable search.Here's some examples of it. Not any for libraries yet. Maybe that needs to be rectified. Wouldn't it be great to have a search engine for (engineering) standards and include just the data sets you wanted? Or patents? Or genomics data....and link that stuff to journals or whatever?

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1161862781922903172006-10-26T07:36:00.000-04:002006-10-26T07:39:41.940-04:00

Quick, I'm late for work1. Babelfish is almost a reality http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6083994.stm2. Rochester has already done the find videos thing we want to do-- we'll just steal from them http://www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=videos

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1161752927988083482006-10-25T01:07:00.000-04:002006-10-25T01:08:48.060-04:00

I'm considering getting an IPOD finally. One thing I would want to do is download some podcasts, like from NPR. I heard today that you have to subscribe to them through a service. Is this the case? If so, do you use something you would recommend?

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1161671029464372312006-10-24T02:21:00.000-04:002006-10-24T02:23:49.466-04:00

I'm a Treo convert. My husband got 700 and I now have his old 600. Can't wait for the 680 to come out. Read a Treo review.Now I can get my e-mails & surf the Internet during boring meetings. How did I ever function without this phone?

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1161670437565118442006-10-24T02:04:00.000-04:002006-10-24T02:18:10.023-04:00

I'm really pushing the Scrapple limits here, but if you missed it, there was an interesting article in this past Sunday NYTimes magazine about the game called Spore (designed by Will Wright). There have been lots of interesting posts about this online, so you can google it, or look at this page if you are wondering what the heck I'm talking about.The idea behind the game is that you start out as

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1161669757138823742006-10-24T02:02:00.000-04:002006-10-24T02:15:40.663-04:00

Is now available.

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1161669590132818142006-10-24T01:51:00.000-04:002006-10-24T01:59:50.150-04:00

If you've ever wondered if e-books were endangered, you might want to read about Adobe's attempt to jump into e-book market. As I'm reading it, Adboe will come out with a software that publishers can use to create their e-books.-Digital Editions will support Adobe Content Server DRM, which many lending libraries currently employ.-Publishers who like the service but aren't necessarily PDF-centric

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1159138671039004992006-09-24T18:55:00.000-04:002006-09-24T18:58:23.826-04:00

I don't know how much of this stuff you can really predict, but I read an interesting article some responses to what the Internet might look like in 2020.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5370688.stmOne interesting quote (although I'm not sure this is new or just applies to the Internet):"The less one is powerful, the more transparent his or her life. The powerful will remain much less

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1159102481300256602006-09-24T08:39:00.000-04:002006-09-24T08:54:41.333-04:00

...or just be sure to bring a good book?I'm going to the CODI confrence in Salt Lake City in a little over a week so I'm following the Gordian Knot -- a blog for Syrsi/Dynix users. (CODI stands for Customers of Dynix) A new posting there today by "suzyq" says she can summarize her 5 weeks worth of training and migration to 8.0 with a Foxtrot cartoon.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1159013736655059972006-09-23T08:06:00.000-04:002006-09-23T08:15:36.673-04:00

A number of publishing organizations are develooping a standard protocol for granting publishing rights -- an Automated Content Access Protocol."In one example of how ACAP would work, a newspaper publisher could grant search engines permission to index its site, but specify that only select ones display articles for a limited time after paying a royalty."The aim is to control spiders but I

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1158923393264969552006-09-22T06:58:00.000-04:002006-09-22T07:09:53.293-04:00

You can always get me to read an article that promises to be about an advance toward something that will let us read novels electronically. So a BBC headline "Roll-up screens 'moving closer'" sucked me in. Turns out some guys in Cambridge have come up with a thin, flat metal that can snap from one shape to another--from a flat sheet to a rolled up sheet. The metal is cheap and easily produced so

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1158584852559242932006-09-18T08:55:00.000-04:002006-09-18T09:07:32.623-04:00

BBC article about use of net from cell phones says there's going to be a new domain starting next month -- .mobi -- that will be for sites that you can get over your phone and there will be a strict set of accessibility standards."Go to this site to see what your web pages looks like on a phone http://emulator.mtld.mobi/emulator.php?. Oooh, the library catalog doesn't look good at all. I wonder

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1155481095904262612006-08-13T10:45:00.000-04:002006-08-13T11:08:29.006-04:00

Check out the Reuters article on Hansdehar, a village in India, has created a web site that describes itself to the world. It is the first (and currently only) entry in the Smart Villages project.The intension of the overall project is to create a grid of information about thousands of villages in India. Different people associated with the Hansdehar project seem to have different ideas about

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1155037471115760402006-08-08T07:28:00.000-04:002006-08-08T07:44:31.590-04:00

Leopard, Mac's OS in development, will have the ability to auto-save. There's a slider to see earlier versions of photos, for example. And, according to BBC, "it also lets users search for files overwritten or altered in the past." Notice the plural--files.So I guess we'll have our very own Way-Back machine. Maybe I'll write Brewster for a grant to buy disk space for all the backups.Truth in

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1154923446408334522006-08-07T00:00:00.000-04:002006-08-07T00:04:06.430-04:00

I somehow missed the whole group photos in Flickr until just recently when I came across a bunch of tagged group photos of librarians off a library blog about the recent SAA conference (examples of some of the library groups: librarians wearing hard hats, librarians wearing glasses, library bags, and library desks)....Even a list of libraries that have Flickr accounts.

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1154691684856606142006-08-04T07:37:00.000-04:002006-08-04T07:48:04.973-04:00

Sadly enough, here's an intriguing piece of history that won't be archived in any library let alone a digital repository. Maybe we should gather up donations to send him phone cards.The blackboard looks homemade. I had a friend there who made one with carbon from worn out batteries. He used it for teaching arithmetic to a number of people in town. Hard to tell from the picture but this one could

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1154612671966131952006-08-03T09:36:00.000-04:002006-08-03T09:44:31.986-04:00

I try lots of different tools and tweakers on my workstation but I usually just toss them out after a first look. I'm starting to like Browster, though. It's a little bit you download and run in the background. Pause the cursor over a link on a web page and a little icon pops up. Pause the cursor over that icon and the page being linked to flashes up in a new window. You can move the mouse and

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1154606355131443922006-08-03T07:24:00.000-04:002006-08-03T07:59:15.216-04:00

At the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Labs they are using X-ray fluorescence to reveal an original Greek transcription of some of Archimedes' writings that are the foundation of math today--texts that developed mathematical ways to represent the real world.The reason they need this technology is that the texts in question -- a 10th century monk's transcription -- was obscured by a 13th century

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1154487604443575962006-08-01T22:57:00.000-04:002006-08-01T23:00:04.443-04:00

Does anybody have experience using a software program or Internet resource to catalog personal book collections? My husband would like to catalog his books and he is looking for something that is either free or reasonably priced, but not clunky to use. Any recommendations?

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1154487299279783792006-08-01T22:53:00.000-04:002006-08-01T22:54:59.280-04:00

Really interesting NPR story the other day about how the Gov't will adopt GPS to aid with the census. Of particular interest was the story about the maps used by Delaware County.Census Bureau Adopts GPS to Find American Homes

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1154486797980648582006-08-01T22:45:00.000-04:002006-08-01T22:46:38.000-04:00

Posted to a new director's listserv, I thought this was a great tip:"When you have a long URL that you need to send in an e-mail, and youwant to keep this problem from occurring, there's an easy way tocreate a short URL, called "TinyURL." Go to http://tinyurl.com/ and paste your long URL into the box on the screen. The program willcreate a short URL that will open the original Web page! You can

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1153172316643323652006-08-01T21:35:00.000-04:002006-08-01T22:50:25.846-04:00

OCLC has a new online journals service called OCLC eSerials Holdings service. It is marketed as an efficient and cost-effective way to make your electronic content more visible andaccessible by leveraging your investment in WorldCat.If you have an e-management service, such as Ebsco A-Z or Serials Solution etc. you can have your records loaded into World Cat.Here's what OCLC says the eSerials

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1154286268373999282006-07-30T14:57:00.000-04:002006-07-30T15:05:57.053-04:00

According to ExtremeTech Samsung says they are developing a 4Gb soli-state drive that can act as cache for data and code. Put it on your motherboard and you get fast-- no, really fast-- action on your computer. It's designed to work with MS's Vista as part of the ReadyBoost technology that will be part of Vista. It should be ready "in time for the Microsoft Vista timeframe."

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1153404411796636332006-07-20T10:01:00.000-04:002006-07-20T10:06:51.870-04:00

YouTube video of a Canadian news report on Internet. I don't know the date but the haircutss, the command line entry and interviewees saying that in these bulletin boards people discuss football in a polite manner suggests that it is not a recent report :~)

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1153136699308833752006-07-17T07:37:00.000-04:002006-07-17T07:44:59.310-04:00

Wired reports on a project from Columbia Univ that connects the scanning power of the human brain with the iterative power of the computer to do some fancy relevancy ranking with images. The idea is to use the technology for security folks who have to view bunches and bunches of images. Your brain recognizes images much faster than you can consciously identify them. As you scan bunches and

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1153136004453222192006-07-17T07:33:00.000-04:002006-07-17T07:36:51.810-04:00

Rice University in Houston is resurrecting it's ten-years dead Press. They are going to be publishing as they did in the past with a twist -- they will be fully digital. You'll be able to read for free online or buy a copy of the work as a downloaded file or as a print copy. They are working with the open source system Connextions for publishing and QOOP for printing. From the website QOOP

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1152703368896134932006-07-12T06:55:00.000-04:002006-07-12T07:22:48.953-04:00

Open WorldCat was a great idea--huge database of library catalogs searchable for free in Google and Yahoo. But it had two flaws:You had no real idea of what you were searching because OCLC was vague about what records they exposed to Google and YahooYou had to know a search trick to get WorldCat recordsAnd a picky irritant -- you got different results when you searched Yahoo and Google.In August

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1152340517478835592006-07-08T02:24:00.000-04:002006-07-08T02:35:17.496-04:00

Wondering what Scrapplers think of the term "Library 2.0?" Buzz, hype, or is there something to it?Recently, I came across this posting on Library Stuff and it reminded me of some conference talks I've heard recently.Personally, some of the concept I like...like connecting patrons to library services with a give 'em what they want attitude. But I still remember the first time I heard this term I

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1152186289379475392006-07-06T07:17:00.000-04:002006-07-06T07:44:49.400-04:00

Interesting piece in Wired Campus about a professor who has given his students written directions for when they can cite Wikipedia.[A] Wikipedia citation can be an appropriate convenience when the point being supported is minor, noncontroversial, or also supported by other evidence. In addition, Wikipedia is an appropriate source for some extremely recent topics (especially in popular culture or

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1152134847169684252006-07-05T17:24:00.000-04:002006-07-05T17:27:27.206-04:00

Scott Carlson reports in the Wired Chronicle News that Springer has made a $1M to 7 libraries affected by Katrina. A for-profit publisher does some good....Here's the story:"A major academic publisher has donated more than $1-million in electronic books to seven university libraries in New Orleans damaged by Hurricane Katrina. With the gift, from Springer, seven Louisiana libraries will get free,

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1152123704353549022006-07-05T14:19:00.000-04:002006-07-05T14:21:44.403-04:00

This December will be the last print issue of APA's index to psychological lit.Is this the first one to go e-only? I can't remember others.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1151468354311519892006-06-28T00:18:00.000-04:002006-06-28T00:19:14.330-04:00

Heard about this on NPR today on the way home: here is a link to the story on MSNhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6822763/

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1151336626180100602006-06-26T11:40:00.000-04:002006-06-26T11:43:46.243-04:00

James Neal has an article called Information Anarchy or Information Utopia? in the Chronicle from December 2005. I came across it recently and liked the question he asks at the end regarding the library of the future:The library of the future: Will there be one? We should not questionwhether it will survive, but whether it will have relevance and impact.

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1151066821771456602006-06-23T08:29:00.000-04:002006-06-23T08:47:01.860-04:00

I don't read Wired that much. It's got good writing but, in print, I find it hard to wade through all the graphic fru-fru. I find it easier to read on the web but, since that's the kind of stuff I usually read on airplanes....Anyway, somehow I stumbled on a short essay in Wired about Wikipedia and was amazed at the profundity of this writer's insights. For example:"...Wikipedia exists in a state

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1150835177057980982006-06-20T16:22:00.000-04:002006-06-20T16:26:27.713-04:00

OCLC is working with Ex Libris, TDnet, EBSCO and Serials solutions to automatically add member libraries' e-serials holdings in WorldCat. And this info will be available in Open WorldCat. The announcement is at http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200510.htm.Sounds very nice.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1150758165021704052006-06-19T18:14:00.000-04:002006-06-19T19:02:45.103-04:00

If you haven't already seen it LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com it's worth a look. LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. Because everyone catalogs together, you can also use LibraryThing to find people with similar libraries, get suggestions from people with your tastes and so forth.It's these guys "I'm gonna make a lot of money" scheme that runs on

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1150383251866644232006-06-15T10:49:00.000-04:002006-06-15T10:54:11.893-04:00

Interesting news tidbid on CNET about Amazon venturing into selling groceries online. When I saw the title of the article I thought about all the past ventures in this area that have gone bust.http://news.com.com/Amazon+starts+selling+groceries+online/2100-1038_3-6084005.html?tag=nefd.topThis year I can now buy a lot electronics on Amazon with my corporate account and some marketplace items.

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1150293459665177762006-06-14T09:55:00.000-04:002006-06-14T09:57:39.696-04:00

Here this CALEA story is popping up again...this time in the Chronicle's Wired blog:Networking Experts Warn Against Government Eavesdroppingavailable at: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1332"A group of computer scientists today warned that a federal regulation that requires Internet service providers—possibly including colleges—to re-engineer their networks to make it easier for

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1150208509628010912006-06-13T10:18:00.000-04:002006-06-13T10:21:49.706-04:00

The Chronicle has an interesting editorial about how scholarly publishing might be affected by social networking through MySpace or Facebook. Kind of an interesting idea. I wonder how the economics of it might work. Even most open access journals aren't free since somebody has to pay for it (either the author, grant, etc).Article is at: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i41/41b02001.htm and called

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1147984979502780852006-05-18T16:23:00.000-04:002006-05-18T16:51:17.786-04:00

I'm beginning to like looking at C |Net News' second column display. At the top of the right-hand column they place ads but go down just below those ads and you'll see a box with tabs labelledThe Big Picture | Related Stories | What's Hot | Latest HeadlinesRelated Stories and Latest Headlines are kind of yawners but I like The Big Piture and What's Hot (graphical view).The Big Picture is an

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1146767308969196072006-05-04T14:24:00.000-04:002006-05-04T14:28:28.990-04:00

Yup, read all about it on the OCLC site . Eureka will be integrated into FirstSearch. The company will still be called OCLC but there will be a division called RLG programs.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1146088972422670372006-04-26T18:02:00.000-04:002006-04-26T18:32:12.070-04:00

Right now you probably just see the citation to the book by CarolineBledsoe in the space below this text.Caroline H. BledsoeWomen and marriage in Kpelle society.This will go to whatever link resolver you are usingBut if you download the COinS extension for Firefox and configure it for Hopkins you'll see the Find IT button below this citation. Click on the button and you'll get a FIND IT menu that

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1146051906090568572006-04-26T07:33:00.000-04:002006-04-26T07:48:57.866-04:00

Reuters reports that the digital divide has shrunk in the last few years. But as you read the article you see discussion of India and China but not a word about Africa. The next to the last sentence says Central and Eastern European countries lag behind because Mobile phone penetration is ubiquitous, but fixed line Internet connections are not widely available, while the business and legal

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1145396084558111462006-04-18T17:34:00.000-04:002006-04-18T17:34:44.560-04:00

It even includes a list of journals covered!

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1145395898693084132006-04-18T17:29:00.000-04:002006-04-18T17:31:38.710-04:00

Have a look at SLIM: Slider Interface for MEDLINE/PubMed searches. It uses slider bars instead of drop down boxes. Somehow it feels easier.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1145375289781479262006-04-18T11:42:00.000-04:002006-04-18T11:48:09.806-04:00

At least that's what Jakob Nielson says: Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.I have some questions about the pages they chose to use for the experiment but I could have missed something. I just skimmed the report. Since the text went all the way across the page I just focused on the headers

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1144856744691722562006-04-12T11:40:00.000-04:002006-04-12T11:45:44.766-04:00

Have a look at MS Academic Search . Right now it covers Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Physics. They are using OAI to harvest compliant archives like ArXiv.org. And it recognizes you if you're coming from a Hopkins IP. Pretty slick.

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1144855993880291352006-04-12T11:28:00.000-04:002006-04-12T11:48:00.690-04:00

Posted on the ERIL listservOver the past month, we have received an increased number of notices concerning unusual spider activity. In most instances, we have found the Google Desktop Search with MSIE crawler installed on the machines associated with the blocked IP address. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, have you been able to resolve the conflict? I would appreciate any advice or

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1144325627109798842006-04-06T08:09:00.000-04:002006-04-06T08:13:47.173-04:00

At the CNI conference this week, there was a presentation about a web tool that was built at Allegheny College called Gnosh. It is a meta-search tool that incorporates components of social software into the search itself. Check it out.

Polymathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03051898463373226969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1144151802552228452006-04-04T07:38:00.000-04:002006-04-04T08:01:22.046-04:00

BBC reports women are voting in Kuwait for the first time ever and that there are two women candidates for one of the positions.Serves to remind us that we aren't that far out from women getting the vote in the US. My grandmother on my father's side got the vote the year my father -- her third child -- was born. My mother's mother had two children before she could vote. Can you imagine that? When

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1143920909790493672006-04-01T14:04:00.000-05:002006-04-01T14:48:29.826-05:00

Singapore is instituting biometric passportshttp://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6056746.html?part=rss&tag=6056746&subj=news. Does it surprise me that Singapore is on the leading edge of this technology? No, I have a friend from graduate school who taught in Singapore. He said that he flew in one time and his hair was longish. They whisked him out of line and chopped his hair off before he could enter

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1143500679414918292006-03-27T18:00:00.000-05:002006-03-27T18:04:39.450-05:00

Does a server with a dual pentium 4 or xeon processors around 2 GHz, with 1 GB RAM for memory, 8 GB for system (hard drvie) and 30 GB for data with a backup tape drive or network back up really go for $10,000?Or can you get a good server for less than that? The above are the configuration we are looking for. I'm getting some price quotes, but wanted to know if any of you thinks this is in line or

Susan Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00631974818696065564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1143388198903545502006-03-26T10:01:00.000-05:002006-03-26T10:49:58.936-05:00

BBC reports that in the last five years the Japanese have taken to reading books on their phones in a big way. I noticed that the biggest commercial publisher of this kind of work only has 20,000 subscribers and 400 books but....The interesting thing to me isn't that they are reading off their phones. I've read lots of stuff on my black and white Palm and these phones have color screens. No, it's

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1143295113269172472006-03-25T08:45:00.000-05:002006-03-25T08:58:33.293-05:00

BBC reports that 42% of the 18-29 year old Brits surveyed said they would miss a trip to the doctor because they had to wait.*Maybe the National Health Care should consider IM-ing their younger patients. ANSWR: No, sir. The nose doesn't normally spew blood. How much blood is there?*Interestingly enough only a third said they would skip a dental visit because of a wait; sadly, 16% wouldn't give

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1143030234704214642006-03-22T07:18:00.000-05:002006-03-22T07:24:41.660-05:00

BBC reports that Windows has announced a delayed the roll out of Vista. They also say that MS is building 6 (yup, six) versions of Vista. "Three versions of the software, called Vista, will be for home users, two will be for businesses and one will be for emerging markets."Wonder if the one for emerging markets will run on one of those $100 hand-crank computers?

Sue Woodsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-1142119970466905402006-03-11T18:12:00.000-05:002006-03-11T18:32:50.513-05:00

Google recently bought Writely a web based collaborative document editor. You migh think, 'Yawn, another wiki knock-off,' but this thing looks interesting. They list the following capabilities: Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch). Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format

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