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Blogs vs traditional literature
The opening section in Walt Crawford’s most recent issue (August 2007) of Cites & Insights really resonated with me. Entitled On the Literature, he begins with, "I believe that gray literature—blogs, this ejournal, a few similar publications and some lists—represents the most compelling and worthwhile literature in the library field today." He goes on to…
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Self-destructing email
BigString Originally uploaded by ppival Saw this post at Ars Technica describing a service called BigString that allows one to send self-destructing email. They do it by sending an image of whatever text you type, and then depending on the parameters you set, make that image (still actually hosted at BigString) expire after…
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Worldcat Meets Wikipedia: Open Library
I haven’t been paying much attention to the announcement early this week about the new demo of Open Library, but I finally found myself on the site of the Disruptive Library Technology Jester, Peter Murray, and he’s got a 12-minute screencast of how the thing works. In a nutshell, to me it seems like Worldcat…
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ARL White Paper on Interlibrary Loan
Stephen Abram points to a recently-released white paper on interlibrary loan, from ARL. You won’t find any actual numbers in this 4 (barely)-pager, but you will find some interesting trends. ILL for returnables (books) is generally up, according to statistics from several sources, but ILL for non-returnables is generally pretty far down. There are some…
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More Screencasting News – ViewletBuilder 5 released
Qarbon’s ViewletBuilder was the first piece of software I seriously used for screencasting, way back before we knew what to call it 🙂 I haven’t used it lately, but see they’ve just released version 5, so I’ll have to give it a quick try. Technorati Tags: Screencasting, ViewletBuilder
Posted Under: Tutorials