June 22, 2008
I’ve been in the market the last few days for a web-based personal financial management tool. Managing bill dates, receipts, and so forth is an exercise in juggling and memory, and I thought a web-based solution might be optimal - my wife and I can both log in and update the accounts with our receipts, [...]
June 17, 2008
In the Journal of Academic Librarianship, v. 34, no. 2, Lyman Ross and Pongracz Sennyey write an article on the future of libraries in a changing technological milieu.
This is not a surprising topic - in fact, it’s a perennial topic in the library literature, to the extent that the first line of the article reflects [...]
June 12, 2008
Because my institution is somewhat of a “latecomer” to the institutional repository initiative, we have the advantage of seeing what has come before - unfortunately, much of what has come before seems to indicate that the “digital repository,” at least in its current forms (DSpace, Fedora, ePrints, and other dedicated “repository” software), simply doesn’t work.
Oh, [...]
June 11, 2008
Sadly, it doesn’t scan properly, but it’s close.
I am, by dint of some technical know-how, a Master’s in Information Systems, and a perfidious streak of volunteerism, the Library’s lead person for the development of an institutional digital repository. We are relative latecomers to the game - many other higher-ed institutions already have some form of [...]
June 4, 2008
In the roundabout, 6-degrees-of-separation manner that weblogs have, I came across a blog post at the Chronicle that commented on a blog post I commented on over at ACRLog about librarians who spend time being a librarian, but being outside the library. Now, since this post isn’t exactly about the whole idea of having multiple [...]