Posting this so I don’t lose track. Fantastically creative:
Here’s the source.
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Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Library
25-Aug-08Ithaka has released an interesting study it has been working with since 2000 on academic libraries and faculty perceptions. What I like most from this is a useful model of academic library services that they’ve broken into three aspects: purchaser, archive, and gateway. They describe these as:
The purchaser role was described in the survey by [...]
… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago:
The transcript can be found here: http://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt
A few key quotes:
The Internet turns out to be much better at allowing people to form groups than it [...]
Until Zotero 2.0 comes out, which will be server-based as opposed to client-based, keeping track of research across multiple computers is a challenge. The solution I’ve been using on my windows boxes is a combination of Firefox Portable, Zotero, and MS Synctoy. Firefox Portable will let you install an instance of the browser on a [...]
Silverlight & Seadragon
05-Mar-08Here’s a very cool image browsing service at Hard Rock Cafe powered by Microsoft’s Silverlight and Seadragon technologies. Requires a software download, but worth the effort.
For the past year I’ve been working on a project using Archive.org to categorize a sub-set of academic library home pages according to their browse and search structures. Next week I’ll present this data at ALA during the Monday 6/26 poster session at 1pm. But for now, here’s a quick overview of some of [...]
Authority lies in Social Proof
12-Jun-07It’s been one of those months where several ideas seem to congeal all at once. Last year I conducted usability interviews with students where I asked them if they were worried about the authority of the documents they were finding. 100% of that sample said they were not. That made little sense to me until [...]
On Google and Privacy and Library Search
10-Jun-07A quick comment on the latest privacy analysis conducted by Privacy International. Their methodology is a very interesting read because it appears to be directly counter to what Google is doing with search and data aggregation. Two points in particular:
Data collection and processing
What type of information does the site collect, with and without consent? On [...]
Libraries offering Video on Demand
07-Jun-07There’s an interesting, but brief, writeup on the new Overdrive and Recorded Books services in this month’s print edition of Library Journal.
Recorded Books, a supplier of downloadable material to libraries, plans to announce an agreement with major studios at the annual conference of the American Library Assn. June 21-27 in Washington, according to Recorded Books [...]
I’ve been playing around with the beta release of Jott [http://jott.com/] and it’s an interesting example of the potential for the cell phone to become the next search interface. It’s a free service that allows you to give it a call, it recognizes your phone number as an account holder, and then transcribes your messages [...]