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Lorcan Dempsey on library middlware

I've read a lot of posts and articles lamenting the fact that many students and patrons prefer using Google to the library's print and electronic resources, but few look at…

library school

A librarian is born!

I just want to wish a hearty congratulations to Dorothea Salo who just received her MLS today. So glad you made it through! Ever since I started reading her blog,…

libraries our digital future tech trends

Dumb down the catalog? Yes, let’s!

I recently had an interesting discussion with a librarian regarding the usability of OPACs. I, as usual, was arguing that there are lessons to be learned from Google, RedLightGreen, and…

libraries our digital future tech trends

Oh Canada!

I've never really been "up" on Canada. For one, I've never been there (not that I wouldn't like to, but the opportunity has not presented itself yet). Two, I, like…

libraries reference tech trends

Chat interoperability

My new friend, and fellow Wesleyan alum, Stephen Francoeur, wrote: Wouldn't it be cool if your patrons could use an IM client to chat with your web contact center software…

reference tech trends

Jybe: Take Two

I still have not been able to install the Jybe extension in Firefox without my computer melting down, but I have been successful in getting it to work in IE…

ALA Wikis

Wiki Etiquette

It has been interesting to observe how people have approached the wiki I created. I've been thrilled to see that people are contributing to it and have added some great…

ALA

ALA Conference Wiki

Last year, I went to my first ALA Conference, which was also my first library conference ever. Before going, I really had no idea what to expect. So I had…

libraries our digital future

Is innovation all about technology?

I'm sure there are people who think that technology is the be-all-end-all and that every bleeding-edge technology should be implemented in libraries. But I don't happen to know any of…

libraries

The innovation gap

George at It's all good just got back from giving a presentation at the New Jersey Library Association where he was asked a difficult question: This was an excellent audience,…

libraries our digital future search

The Failure of Middleware, Part 7: OAI and Google Scholar

The Open Archives Initiative develops interoperability standards with the goal of developing easy ways to access digital content and improve scholarly communication. They have developed a protocol for harvesting XML-formatted…

libraries our digital future search

The Failure of Middleware, Part 6: Link Resolvers

Link Resolvers allow users to move from a citation to the actual article (so long as the library has access to it), regardless of which database the article happens to…

libraries our digital future search

The Failure of Middleware, Part 5: The Unintegrated Library System & Federated Search

Sorry for the delay in posting the rest of this, but we were flying to Florida yesterday to visit family. Nice to be in consistently warm weather for a few…

our digital future reference

More from Google Maps

A few months ago, Google had purchased Keyhole, a program that allowed you to look at satellite photos of anywhere in the U.S. They allowed users to download it for…

libraries our digital future

The Failure of Middleware, Part 4: What works?

Next, our fictional student is going into RedLightGreen to find resources for her paper. RedLightGreen, a union catalog, is an excellent tool for resource discovery as the user only needs…

libraries our digital future

The Failure of Middleware, Part 3: How do we measure up?

So now that we know what our population wants, we can see how our OPACs measure up. I created a screencast using my alma mater’s OPAC to illustrate some of…

libraries our digital future

The Failure of Middleware, Part 2: Who are our users?

The first thing anyone designing a website or a search engine should ask themselves is how can we meet the needs of our users? In the case of academic libraries,…

libraries our digital future

The Failure of Middleware, Part 1: What’s the Problem?

In many libraries, we see collections that do not meet the needs of their users. This problem can affect small rural public libraries with limited budgets and prestigious academic libraries…

blogging libraries our digital future RSS and Syndication

technology in information literacy: an appeal

I'm going to be doing a presentation on information literacy in a few weeks, and I'm planning on looking at how new technologies can be used in information literacy instruction.…

libraries search

Federated searching and why users aren’t finding/using your electronic materials

Looking at my alma mater’s library website, I noticed that they are implementing a new federated search tool that searches eight resources (a mix of A&I databases and full-text). It's…

Lorcan Dempsey on library middlware

A librarian is born!

Dumb down the catalog? Yes, let’s!

Oh Canada!

Chat interoperability

Jybe: Take Two

Wiki Etiquette

ALA Conference Wiki

Is innovation all about technology?

The innovation gap

The Failure of Middleware, Part 7: OAI and Google Scholar

The Failure of Middleware, Part 6: Link Resolvers

The Failure of Middleware, Part 5: The Unintegrated Library System & Federated Search

More from Google Maps

The Failure of Middleware, Part 4: What works?

The Failure of Middleware, Part 3: How do we measure up?

The Failure of Middleware, Part 2: Who are our users?

The Failure of Middleware, Part 1: What’s the Problem?

technology in information literacy: an appeal

Federated searching and why users aren’t finding/using your electronic materials

A review of Information Literacy and Social Media by Santamaría and Pfannenstiel

Community Time and Enoughness: The heart of slow librarianship

Queer Time, Crip Time, and Subverting Temporal Norms

Meredith’s Slow Productivity (not to be mistaken for Cal Newport’s Faux Slow Productivity)