Open World Cat
In typical OCLC style, a quiet revolution is brewing. Formerly a subscription-only database, WorldCat has begun to progagate into search engines–Google, Yahoo, and Ask in particular–and with the...
View ArticleALA 2006: Future of Search
This oversubscribed session (I sat on the floor, as did many others) featured Stephen Abram of Sirsi/Dynix/SLA president and Joe Janes of the University of Washington debating the future of search,...
View ArticleALA 2006: Top Tech Trends
In yet another crowded ballroom, the men (and woman) of LITA prognosticated on the future of libraries and technology. Walt Crawford moderated the panel and spoke in absentia for Sarah Houghton. Her...
View ArticleOpen source metasearch
Now there’s a new kid on the (meta)search block. LibraryFind, an open-source project funded by the State Library of Oregon, is currently live at Oregon State University. The library has just packaged...
View ArticleOpen Data: What Would Kilgour Think?
The New York Public Library has reached a settlement with iBiblio, the public’s library and digital archive at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for harvesting records from its Research...
View ArticleIDPF: Google and Harvard
Libraries And Publishers At the 2007 International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) in New York May 9th, publishers and vendors discussed the future of ebooks in an age increasingly dominated by...
View ArticlePresenting at ALA panel on Future of Information Retrieval
The Future of Information Retrieval Ron Miller, Director of Product Management, HW Wilson, hosts a panel of industry leaders including: Mike Buschman, Program Manager, Windows Live Academic,...
View ArticleALA 2007: Top Tech Trends
At the ALA Top Tech Trends Panel, panelists including Marshall Breeding, Roy Tennant, Karen Coombs, and John Blyberg discussed RFID, open source adoption in libraries, and the importance of privacy....
View ArticleIs there a bibliographic emergency?
The Bibliographic Control Working Group held its third and final public meeting on the future of bibliographic control July 9 at the Library of Congress, focusing on “The Economics and Organization of...
View ArticleMining for Meaning
In David Lodge’s 1984 novel, Small World, a character remarks that literary analysis of Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot “would just lend itself nicely to computerization….All you’d have to do would be to...
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