Doh, LibX & xISBN services--now I see

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OK, I'm a little slow on this stuff so maybe other people have already picked this up but, it just hit me in the face how easy it must be to use OCLC's xISBN service. Research Buzz recently wrote a piece about using OCLC's xISBN service to harvest a list of all the Wikipedia pages citing a book. Here's how it works:

Replace the ##### in this template with the ISBN of the book you're interested in.

http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/###########?method=getEditions&format=xml&library=wikipedia&fl=*


For example this url http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/006073132X?method=getEditions&format=xml&library=wikipedia&fl=*
gets an xml version of a list of urls of all the pages in Wikipedia that mention the book Freakonomics. One line for each different ISBN. You can see it more easily in the html version (substitute format=html for format=xml)

http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/006073132X?method=getEditions&format=html&library=wikipedia&fl=*
I have a LibX tool bar in my browser so whenever LibX sees a number on a page that it thinks is an ISBN, ISSN, etc. it turns that number into a link for searching the Hopkins library catalog. This is what the first line looks like for me:

006073132X Freakonomics BA 2005 eng 1st ed. William Morrow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_Sense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloran

2012 to be revenue tipping point for e-books, says Publishing Technology report - 24 Mar 2011

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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.

The Horizon report for 2011

"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 potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry. It is the eighth in the annual series of reports focused on emerging technology in the higher education environment." 

Beware of the cloud

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)

HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Event Marketing

HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Event Marketing

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Thunderbolt: Everything You Need To Know

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21 August 2024

Thunderbolt: Everything You Need To Know

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

What does it mean to be an Associate Director?

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 major catastrophe. We've known the date and time and all the rules for for over a month. We've known that if we don't go to the appointed site and get checked in no one will be able to go back to the office. Most people managed to be somewhere else for the event. I ended up being one of the few A.D.s present.

It all went pretty smoothly until we returned to the library and found the guard at the door saying she couldn't let us in because she hadn't gotten the All Clear yet. As we were melting on the front steps I heard the alarm going off in the building. This was not a situation that was going to self-heal any time soon. So I headed back to the staging area to look for the cluster of men in suits. My, they must be sweating. It's 90 degrees today. Why do they insist on wearing coats in this summer weather? Well, anyway I found the gaggle of admins and asked if anyone of them could help out. Of course they couldn't but they found a flunky with a cell phone and sent him around the building to let us in. We were let in and they will probably turn off the alarm before too, too long.

So that's what an A.D. does. Instead of waiting for someone on the evacuation team to figure it out, the A.D. is 'pro-active' and wrassles up some help.  Forget about managing budgets or getting licenses signed. The real work is doing the obvious when no one else will.

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