Upcoming Conferences

1. Library Technology Conference 2010

http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2010/

2. Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference 2010

http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2010/index


Best,
Rong

DuraCloud

Check out:

http://duraspace.org/duracloud.php

The State of China's Book Industry

In case you are interested:

http://shanghaiist.com/2009/10/21/the_state_of_chinas_book_industry.php

Rong

Ten Technologies to Increase Communication in Your Organization

http://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/10/we-live-in-time-unprecedented-for.html

LITA Forum Presentation Files

Hi class,

You may be interested in checking out the presentations for LITA forum (not NISO forum that we attended). There is a presentation on unlocking ILS data which may be relevant to our course.

http://connect.ala.org/node/83274

See you tomorrow in class!

Rong

Lyrasis conference

Thanks to Matt who sent the following link:

http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes%20and%20Events/Catalog/B/Bibliographic%20Services%20Conference%20Not%20Your%20Grandmas%20Library.aspx


Best,
Rong

Open Source Coordinator

Thanks for Libby who sent the following link:


http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/display_jobs.php?num_results=35&job_id=5880&sequence=0&expirationdate=2009-11-20&idlist=5880%205879%205878%205877%205876%205874%205872%205870%205869%205868%205867%205866%205865%205864%205863%205861%205859%205857%205856%205855%205854%205853%205851%205849%205847%205845%205844%205843%205842%205841%205835%205834%205832%205825%205803&location_search=&jobtype_search=&institutiontype_search=&educationtype_search=&jobs_group=&sort_order=date

Rong

Slow Rise of E-Books

http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2009/10/research-information-slow-rise-of-e.html

SIRSI/DYNIX getting sued

Thanks to Andromedia who sent the following link to me:

http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2009/10/sirsilawsuit.html

The full compliant is on Breeding's site --

http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=14288


Rong

Public Libraries Using twitters

http://sites.google.com/site/whytwitterstls/public-libraries-using-twitter

New Utility

Check out Breeding's article

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700415.html

on a new bibliographic utility services:

http://theskyriver.com

and he also mentioned Koha's biblios.net

http://biblios.net/


Check them out.

Rong