Rapid Communications
Rapid, but irregular, communications from the frontiers of Library Technology
Thursday, April 20, 2006
The Transparent Library
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It's not hard to justify yourself to your funding sources when every single researcher needs to actually walk (or send a grad student) i...
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Stupid Catalogue Tricks
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[Updated to fix link to 'principle of least astonishment'] Like most catalogues, our system provides a basic keyword search box, as ...
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Discovery2Delivery
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Lorcan Dempsey's blog entry on Libraries Australia introduced the buzzword "discovery2delivery" to me (although he first talk...
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Why do Users want Lists?
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Why are users so adamant about being able to browse journal lists that library IT group, and vendors like Serial Solutions and Ex Libris, sp...
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Protocol Design by Committee
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3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP, not to be confused with the "Session Initiation Protocol" used in internet telephony)...
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Thursday, February 16, 2006
Appropriate Linking, Like Love, is in the Air
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A couple of weeks ago Dan Chudnov commented (in #code4lib ) that he didn't like putting Amazon.com links on web pages when he referred ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
The Librarians' Playlist
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I've been working on a playlist for librarians for a while, mostly from my own collection. So far I've got "What do you do wit...
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