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What’s the deal, JSTOR?
I've written some posts in the past about vendors that have done some pretty slimy things in the name of making a profit. At least that makes sense to me.…
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Love for sale
Seriously, I just don't get it. So, Google used to have a blog just for librarians called Librarian Central. I remember hearing about it from lots of folks way back…
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LibWorm: Searching, syndicating and aggregating the bibliblogosphere
A few months ago, David Rothman asked me if there was any tool for searching the biblioblogosphere. At the time, there really wasn't much. I told him about LISFeeds, but…
Whatever you do don’t use Google!
After we teach our students how to distinguish between authoritative and unauthoritative resources, we need to actually show them how to find such authoritative resources. While our databases are great,…
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LISZEN is the path to library blog search nirvana.
This is what we have needed in the biblioblogosphere for a long time. Have you ever been looking for a blog post you read a while back, but you don't…
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Do they care what they’re looking at?
About a week before I left for my vacation, Paul Pival, Ken Varnum and David Rothman had an interesting distributed discussion about how students are perceiving the research literature and…
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IL 2006 Day 1: Federated Search: State of the Art
Jeff Wisnewski and Frank Cervone I haven't really looked much at federated search tools since my post on using MetaLib well over a year ago. So I was very interested…
Why Google (or Ask or Yahoo!) is good for reference work
Google/Ask/Yahoo! is rarely the first place I will look for information when helping a student. If it's a really current topic, I'll try Academic Search Premiere and LexisNexis. If it's…
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CIL06 Day 3: The Future of Catalogs
This session was PACKED! I came in with Dave King and we both had to sit on the floor. There aren't too many folks I'd sit on the floor for,…
When is a wiki not a wiki?
Or does using a specific type of software necessarily define the product? I was as excited as everyone else when I heard that the WorldCat wiki was live in Open…
Posted inlibraries our digital future search
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
Google Maps: Oh the possibilities!!!
When I wrote my first post on how excited I was about Google Maps, I had no earthly idea what the broad capabilities of the application were. I don't think…
Google Movies!
Yes, another new Google search tool (it seems like there's been a new one every day over the past few months!). Google Blog reports that Google has come out with…
The cool yellow pages
If you haven't already, go check out A9.com, a yellow pages for the future. More a reference work than simply a "phone book", A9 allows users to not only search…
Giving the patron what s/he wants
Steph at TechnoBiblio wrote about an interesting observation at a recent panel discussion she attended: The final panelist came forth with a statement that seemed to take the audience by…
RSS feeds in your catalog
Exciting news from the world of ILS's [as reported by Jenny at The Shifted Librarian]! I've been crawling out of my skin with anticipation, waiting to be able to announce…
