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Feed2JS moving to Google Code
Alan Levine posts that he’s moving the source code for the most excellent Feed2JS tool to Google Code. If you haven’t played with it before, Feed2JS was one of the first and best tools to take RSS feeds and provide you with javascript that allows you to embed those feeds within a standard web page. …
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After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about next-generation catalogues. While the article provides a pretty good background of the issue (IMHO), the comments provide an excellent summary of librarian psychology. What’s only touched upon briefly in the article is the ability for these new “web-scale index searching” tools to search so much more…
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Digsby now works with LibraryH3lp, but Pidgin no longer does
We’ve just started testing LibraryH3lp at the U of Calgary as a probable replacement for Meebo in offering IM / Chat reference service. I switched from Digsby to Pidgin in order to be able to monitor queues from a desktop client instead of having to log in to the LibraryH3lp website, but yesterday the LibraryH3lp…
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Putting your money where your mouth is
Last week I wrote about indie publishing innovator MCM's challenge to TV viewers in the US to watch the US premiere of his cartoon, Rollbots. Well the results are in, and it looks like he'll be donating nearly $10,000 to the EFF!!! In addition, and perhaps even more significant, he'll be relinquishing all copyright claims…
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Archive now available for Returning the Researcher to the Library: The Summon™ Service in Real Life
This past Tuesday I participated as a panelist in the the fourth and final Library Journal session in the “Returning the Researcher to the Library” series: The Summon™ Service in Real Life. The archive of that webinar is now available for your listening pleasure . Let me know how you think I did, and if…
Posted Under: Discovery