Category: Discovery
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Google Now Personalizes Everyone’s Search Results
This is gonna make it more difficult for anyone teaching Google in a classroom setting. Google Now Personalizes Everyone’s Search Results.
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Got thoughts on Federated Search? Win $1,000!
Deep Web Technologies is sponsoring another contest in which you “Tell us about the most impressive federated search application you’ve ever seen, or about one you’ve dreamed up. How innovative can federated search be? What unique problems can it solve?” What’s kind of neat about this one is that it’s not just an essay contest…
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Preserving the Library in the Digital Age
In a recent issue of The Readex Report, Benjamin L. Carp, Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University gives us five reasons why, despite his love for digitized resources, he still loves and wants libraries: Rare or unique archival materials Browsable stacks Knowledgeable, experienced librarians The buzz of studious patrons All the usual reasons to…
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3 more mobile-friendly vendor sites
All three now on the M-Libraries wiki page, Resource Shelf points out that LexisNexis, EBSCOhost, and Summon are all sporting fancy new mobile-friendly interfaces.
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Apparently people want scholarly articles
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a recently-published study that monitored a file-sharing site where almost 5,500 scholarly articles were traded over a 6-month period, “costing journals about $700,000 in that time, or about $1.4-million a year.” Interestingly, the study is freely available online from The Internet Journal of Medical Informatics. I call BS…
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Internet Librarian days 2 and 3
Didn't take many notes on day three, so I'm combining two days in this post. Even so, it shouldn't be as long as the day one post. I took these notes for myself, not necessarily for the blog, so they're most definitely not session reports – hopefully some useful links to explore. I started the…
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Books of enduring scholarly value
I found a link to this video on the TeleRead blog. It's a 4:00 overview of how Cambridge University Press and Cambridge University Library are partnering to both bring back OOS press titles and to digitize library titles in a print-on-demand operation. Nothing we haven't seen before, but a nice look into how some are…
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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
An emerging list of the top 100 tools for learning in 2009, as picked by 202 learning professionals (and possibly you!). Pleased to note that I was aware of 87 of them, with most of the new-to-me ones being related to animation and course authoring systems. I found it particularly interesting to note the changes…
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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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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…