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