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.