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.