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

Articles about organizational use of twitter

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407881&c=2

http://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/08/twitter-for-organizations.html

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407984&c=1

Popular E-book readers

http://www.digital-book-readers.com/?p=366

Open source answers for libraries

Hi class,

Check out the following open source tools:

Gimp
Scribus
Omeka
VuFind
Blacklight
reservesdirect
libstats
zotero
opengoo
camstudio
limesurvey
webhuddle
aptana
thunderbird
Yahoo Pipes
Zoho


See you in class,
Rong