Lately more and more of the subscriptions in my feed reader are about Open Source software, design, and non-profit technology. I haven’t seen many librarians (except Jessamyn, as it’s a big part of her work) talk about what they’ve learned from the nptech sector which surprises me as they seem to be a good source […]
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Exploring Open Source in Libraries and Non-Profits
Published by March 28th, 2008 in Technology. 0 CommentsLibraries are fun! Visiting the DOK
Published by February 23rd, 2008 in Public libraries and Technology. 0 CommentsThis afternoon I went to Delft and met Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap Van De Geer from the DOK (and the Shanachie Tour) and had a really fun library afternoon.
We started with a tour of the staff backroom. In many libraries, backroom areas are sadly neglected and overrun with stock and stuff. At the DOK they’ve […]
Librarians and DRM
Published by October 10th, 2007 in General, Open Access, Technology and DRM. 2 CommentsAn issue that librarians are increasingly grappling with is DRM. It has been with us for many years (I remember floppy discs being copy-protected in the 80s) but recently technical protection measures have increased, impacting what and how we lend from libraries.
There’a lot of blogs looking at examples of DRM in libraries (for example check […]
So, I’m back on Twitter, despite what I said earlier. Why? I’m doing some new work and wanted to share, but not necessarily on my blog at this stage. I also wanted to chronicle some of the things I’m learning right now, in lieu of more formal diarising like that in The Artist’s Way (which […]
So while I was away ning became the latest thing, along with a sudden spike in Twitter usage amongst librarians. It could well be the usual effect of returning from a holiday and being overwhelmed by feeds and emails, but I am definitely feeling a sense of Social Network Fatigue.
There are several sites I have […]
Tag Clouds for Content Analysis
Published by January 5th, 2007 in General and Technology. 0 CommentsVia the Intelligent Agent blog, you can now use TagCrowd (Note: site currently down) to analyse a block of text for frequency of words much in the same way as you might for Tag Clouds.
One possible use for this form of cloud is content analysis. The article I posted below may have been much easier […]
