Popular Programming Languages

On Tim O'Reilly's blog, Marc Hedlund posted a piece and a graph showing programing languages demand. And it is avaialable here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/precipice/31218845/

Out of these, how many do you know?

Rong

Search Terms by Categories

The proportion of search terms by categories based on users' search of NYPL Web site.

http://labs.nypl.org/2008/11/24/stat-of-the-week-no2-search-terms-by-category/

LibLog landscape 2007-2008

http://www.lulu.com/content/4898086

Google search wiki and Web history

A new product from Google. Very neat. You login to your account, you can change the results order and give comments for each site.

Now you can also view your Web browse history using Google's "Web history."

Evergreen new release

http://coffeecode.net/archives/175-Evergreen-1.4.0.0-RC2-and-OpenSRF-1.0.1-are-out.html

NextGen OPAC bibliography

http://arlisnamw.wordpress.com/virtual-poster-sessions/whats-hot-whats-not-trends-in-technologies-and-services-in-libraries/next-generation-opacs-current-practices-future-opportunities-for-art-libraries/next-generation-opacs-bibliography/

LESS TALK, MORE CODE

A list of technology/software that you may be interested in. Evergreen and Talis are among them:

http://oxfordrepo.blogspot.com/2008/11/useful-interesting-inspiring.html

Rong

Survey research on library practices

Here is a site that contains several survey research reports on library practices including the Survey of Academic & Research Library Journal Purchasing Practices; Academic Library Cataloging Practices Benchmarks:

http://www.primaryresearch.com/index.html

Rong

The evolving federation of search

A nice article about the evolution of search technology -- 

http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/The-evolving-federation-of-search--51415.aspx

Techstatic

A newly launched site features reviews of tech books:

http://www.thetechstatic.com/

Rong

Reference Extract

Check out this project that plans to use librarians to work as search engines:

http://referencextract.org/

Rong

Comparision of institutional repository software

Hi all,

You may be interested in reading the following posting regarding various features of Digital Commons, DigiTool, DSpace, and Eprint.

 

http://metalogger.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/comparing-some-institutional-repository-solutions/

Craftspace now supports SOPAC

Craftspace is currently integrating SOPAC with their yourlibrarysite service.

http://lonewolflibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/sopac-integration-through-yourlibrarysite110408/

Here is the site they have worked on:

http://www.pvld.org/


Rong

Google Alerts

You can set up an RSS feeds through google alerts:

http://www.google.com/alerts

All the best,
Rong

Breaking up OCLC?

Hi class,

 

You may be interested in reading this blog from Terry Reese on "What would it look like if OCLC was broken up?"

http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/579

 

Rong

Library Automation Survey 2008 by Breeding

All,

Breeding is doing 2008 library automation survey here:

http://www.librarytechnology.org/blog.pl?ThreadID=91

You've all read the 2007 perception survey from the class. I am looking forward to hearing his results in this year's survey!

Rong

Stanford and SirsiDynix's project on searching and display in orginal scripts of CJK

Press release available on:

http://www.librarytechnology.org


2008-10-31. Stanford University Libraries and SirsiDynix Partner for
State-of-the-Art, Original Script Access , [SirsiDynix]
Stanford University and SirsiDynix officially announced the completion
of a project that now allows searching and display of the library’s
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean holdings in the original scripts. In a
previous related project, functionality for searching, sorting, and
displaying was made available for Arabic and Hebrew scripts.

RDA draft and Halloween

Roy Tennant makes a comment about draft release day of RDA Coinciding with Halloween. 

http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/130035213.html

Rong

JHU Digital Book Features in its OPAC

Check out this blog on the digital book project in Johns Hopkins. Click on its links to "OPAC" and "link resolver" to see how the digital book items displaying through OPAC and link resolver. It is amazing how they integrate google books search, amazon, Internet Archive, and many other features in their catalog. Unbelievable!

http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/umlaut-digital-book/

Rong

XC -- the eXtensible Catalog (developed by Univ of Rochester) Web site

The XC will be released next year. Check out its Web site:

http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/


Rong

Open Source Participant Satisfaction Survey

Hi all,

You may be interested in learning about this survey that is conducted by someone from Victoria University at Wellington in NZ:

http://surveys.sim.vuw.ac.nz/survey.aspx?surveyid=205

All the best,

Rong

Libraries and IT Departments

You may be interested in hearing this audio discussion on libraries and IT depts from Chronicle of Higher Education:

http://chronicle.com/media/audio/v55/i07/techtherapy/

Best,

Rong

Surpass searchpoint

Hi class,

Surpass searchpoint is a federated search tool that works with the Surpass databases. Here is the link to its demo site:

http://wfx.webfeat.org/wfsearch/menu?cid=10454

See you next Tuesday,

Rong 

EnvisionWare PC management software

Hi class,

I heard some good reports of the EnvisionWare's PC reservation software that helps to manage the public library's PC use.

http://www.envisionware.com/en/pc_reservation

Rong

Liblicense

Hi class,

As we will talk a little about contracts/licensing in tomorrow's class, here is a link to liblicense site at Yale that contains good information about licensing for digital information:

http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml

Rong

OPALS ILS

Hi class,

You may be interested in exploring another OSS ILS called OPALS that is mediaflex's product. My source say that the prices is $750 per year in terms of support.

http://opals-na.org/

http://www.mediaflex.net/showcase.jsp?n=OPALS%99&product_number=F05800

See you next week,

Rong

Negative comments about III

Hi class,

You will find the following blog on customers' criticism of Innovative Interfaces, Inc to be interesting.

http://thebookpile.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/if-i-were-innovative-i-would-be-worried/

See you tomorrow,

Rong

The future of librarianship

Enjoy this funny image about the reference librarian:

http://speakquietly.blogspot.com/2008/10/future-of-librarianship.html


Rong

Tag Clouds tools

1. TagCrowd

http://tagcrowd.com/

2. wordle

http://wordle.net/

Rong

Content Management Systems and Resources

1. Various CMS:

1. http://www.joomla.org 
   
2. http://www.dspace.org 
   
3. http://www.epiware.com 
   
4. http://www.opendocman.com 
   
5. http://www.knowledgetree.com
   
6. http://www.mindtouch.com 
   
7. http://kete.net.nz 
   
8. http://info.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php
   

2. Resources:

(1) Comparing wikis:

http://www.wikimatrix.org/

(2) Content Management Software:

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php

Rong

Joomla! Another Open Source Content Management Software

Hi class, 

Check out the OSS content management software (you've heard about WordPress, Drupal in class) Joomla!

http://demo.joomla.org/

And Royal Oak Public Library in MI uses Joomla for their library Web site:

http://www.ropl.org/

Rong

Misio -- Textalibrarian

Misio has been used by some libraries for "text-a-librarian" services:

http://www.mosio.com/

Rong

2008 Access Conference Program

Hi class,

Here is the link to Access Conference Program that Scot mentioned that he will be attending:

http://access2008.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca/program/

Rong

OpenLibrary and OpenBook

Here are a couple more open source social tagging types of systems:

1. Open Library (part of Internet Archive):

http://openlibrary.org/

2. OpenBook.

Read an article about openbook here:

http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/105

Best,

Rong

Blogs on RFP

Hi class,

As we move towards library automation planning, there are two blog pieces you may find interesting regarding the RFP:

1. By Roy Tennant:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1210033721.html

2. By Latcorp:

http://latcorp.blogspot.com/2008/09/rfp-rant.html

See you tomorrow,

Rong

 

Cornell Making of America

Hi class,

Check out Cornell University Making of America Digital collection:

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/

Rong

New OPAC -- SOPAC and VuFind

Hi class,

You may be interested in learning about SOPAC (Drupal-based). It is the next generation OPAC that has a lot of library2.0 features. Their version2.0 just came out, and it is implemented in Darien Library. The OPAC display has both item record and item review tabs, and the tag cloud is on the right side:

http://www.darienlibrary.org/catalog

The excellent Ann Arbor District Library uses SOPAC version 1.0. I am very fond of their card catalog image feature:

http://www.aadl.org/catalog/

There is also an Open Source next gen OPAC called VuFind. Below are the two libraries using VuFind on top of their ILS:

http://library.villanova.edu/Find
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/

See you on Tuesday,
Rong

ALA automation bibliography: New URL

Hi class,

Apparently, ALA just launched the new Web site, so the link to the automating libraries bibliography has been moved to:

http://staging.ala.org/ala/aboutala/hqops/library/libraryfactsheet/alalibraryfactsheet21.cfm

Best,

Rong

Zoomify

Hi class,

Check out Zoomify technology that is used by Kansas City Public Library for their local history special collection the image collection.

http://www.zoomify.com/default.htm

And KClibrary's local history collection site is at:

http://www.kchistory.org/

See you on Tuesday,
Rong

swetswise

Hi class,

SwetsWise is a useful e-journal management tool. I will mention it in class on Tuesday. Meanwhile, here is its URL:

http://www.swets.com/

Rong

Biblio Tech

Hi class,

Check out biblio tech:

http://www.ringgold.com/biblio-tech/

You may want to compare it with Breeding's librarytechnology site.

Best,
Rong

ALA Library Automation Bibliography

Hi class,

You will find the following resource to be very useful. I will add this to the course Web site the materials/resources section:

http://www.ala.org/ala/alalibrary/libraryfactsheet/alalibraryfactsheet21.cfm

See you on Tuesday,
Rong

An Open Source Interview

Hi class,

You might be interested in reading the following interview with LibLime's original designer, Ellyssa Kroski:

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/2204

Rong

woldcat review

Hi class,

Here is a recent review on worldcat:

http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00014665/01/TCA0804.pdf

Rong

face search engine

Hi class, 

Check out the face search engine:

http://www.facesaerch.com/

Rong

OSS Web-based cataloging

Hi class, 

Check out the following presentation --

http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/catalfo

Best,

Rong

Federated Searching and the Value of Librarians

Here is a post by Carl Grant on librarian and federated searching tools:

http://federatedsearchblog.com/2008/09/10/we-librarians-need-to-remember-what-our-value-is-in-providing-metasearching…/

Rong

Library's Social Network Software Use Policy

Hi class,

You may be interested in reading the social network software use policy developed by Binghamton University Libraries:

http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/webdocs/socialsoftware.html

Rong

100 questions to ask federated searching vendors

Hi class,

You may be interested in reading the following article:

http://federatedsearchblog.com/2008/09/08/100-questions-to-ask-federated-search-vendors/

See you tomorrow in class,

Rong

Google Chrome

Hi class,

Have you tried Google's browser Google Chrome? I am now typing this posting from Chrome.

Check it out:

http://www.google.com/chrome/

See you in our first class meeting on Tuesday!

Rong

worldcat identities

Hi class,

Check out the worldcat identities system. You can find famous authors' publishing profile and patterns there. It is a very neat tool:

http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/

Rong

Welcome

This blog was set up for Rong Tang to post materials/comments on Library Automation system. This is a part of LIS531R at GSLIS, Simmons College, Fall 2008.