http://www.logicaloperator.net Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:15:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The process of identifying the "right" digital repository software to implement at my university continues apace, with the most recent efforts surrounding a specs-level evaluation of six or seven systems (DSpace, Fedora, and so on) to see if we could identify showstoppers from the very start (either technical capabilities we ... http://www.logicaloperator.net/2008/10/slipping-below-the-surface/ Note: Roger Schonfeld, one of the authors of the study, commented and corrected some msiconceptions I had about the report. I've responded to him in the comments section - I'll leave the original post unaltered, so you can see the context of his comments. A recently released report by Ithaka - ... http://www.logicaloperator.net/2008/09/value-and-visibility/ 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 ... http://www.logicaloperator.net/2008/06/workflow-automation-and-control/ 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 ... http://www.logicaloperator.net/2008/06/s-curvy-libraries/ 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 ... http://www.logicaloperator.net/2008/06/more-on-repositories/ 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 ... http://www.logicaloperator.net/2008/06/the-very-model-of-a-digital-repository/ 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 ... http://www.logicaloperator.net/2008/06/its-not-like-we-do-it-for-the-money/ Disclosure: the following is reposted from a 2/25/08 post on my personal blog, because I wrote it there long before Logical Operator existed: One thing about libraries is that they engender a lot of doomsaying, from people saying "it's all on Google" to things like Ross Dawson's "extinction timeline" (which predicts ... http://www.logicaloperator.net/2008/06/a-twist-on-librarian-doomsaying/ Speaking of Neo-Luddism and resistance to technological change, consider this article from a couple days ago in The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus blog. Here's an excerpt: North Carolina State University is one of a handful of colleges to set up virtual computer labs, where users enter it remotely, from ... http://www.logicaloperator.net/2008/05/i-see-what-you-did-there/ Over at the The Shifted Librarian, a blog about technology and libraries and all the delightful interactions betwixt same, Jenny (the author*) posted this post, about technology as a source of guilt, rather than a tool for life balance. I came across the entry by way of Walt Crawford at ... http://www.logicaloperator.net/2008/05/the-edge-is-a-fickle-hellcat/