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