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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Waiting for Zotero

26-Sep-06

Found via Lorcan Dempsey’s blog, I’m looking forward to Zotero’s public beta, supposedly this Fall ‘06. The main problem with any type of academic blogging is the ability to cite articles (like I did with the above blog) even though the link target may be behind a pay firewall of some kind. It stands to [...]

Digital Preservation

26-Sep-06

I’m heading out to Cornell next week to attend a Digital Preservation Management workshop. In the preparatory readings, two preservations services caught my eye:

HD Rosetta: This service will etch documents onto a nickel plate at such a small resolution that from an 8.5″ x 11″ plate you can retrieve up to 18,000 pages of [...]

Libraries and “Status Skills”

11-Sep-06

Trendwatching.com has an interesting article up on what they call “Status Skills“, which they define as:
“In economies that increasingly depend on (and thus value) creative thinking and acting, well-known status symbols tied to owning and consuming goods and services will find worthy competition from ‘STATUS SKILLS’: those skills that consumers are mastering to make the [...]

Is it library work?

09-Sep-06

Terence Huwe has an interesting article in the recent edition of Online. Here’s the citation:
Huwe, T. K. (2006). From librarian to digital communicator. Online, 30(5), 21-26.
He charts the path through which the U. Berkeley’s Institute and Industrial Relations Library has inserted itself into the information flow starting back when e-mail was such a transformative technology. [...]