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eBooks on The Current
Part 3 of yesterday’s The Current on CBC was a 26-minute piece on eBooks; mostly about pricing structures, with reminders that publishers provide a lot more than the paper upon which books are printed. At the 15-minute mark is an interview with David Kent, who’s the President and CEO of Harper Collins Canada. He guesses…
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Registration now open for OffCamp Library Services Conference 2010
Registration is now open for the 14th Off-Campus Library Services Conference (OCLSC) to be held in Cleveland OH, April 28-30, 2010.
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Distant Librarian’s top 10 posts from 2009
I was poking around Google Analytics for work yesterday and thought it would also be fun to peek at the top ten posts for my blog for 2009. Here they are, without comment: Crappy Experience at the Apple Store A little more info on the Harvard linking BS Jing Pro and Jing Free Is 2009…
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The ABCs of e-book format conversion: Easy Calibre tips for the Kindle, Sony and Nook
TeleRead has a great post on The ABCs of e-book format conversion: Easy Calibre tips for the Kindle, Sony and Nook. It’s written by one of the developers of Calibre, a program for managing ebook collections, and as such touts Calibre as pretty much the perfect tool for handling your conversion needs. What’s really nice…
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Quick Review: Opening Up Library Systems Through Web Services and SOA: Hype or Reality?
Late last year I received a review copy of the most recent Library Technology Reports, Opening Up Library Systems Through Web Services and SOA: Hype or Reality? written by Marshall Breeding. It's a simple report, consisting of a mere three chapters. Chapter One introduces the concept of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and places them in the context…
Posted Under: Web/Tech