RDA draft and Halloween

Roy Tennant makes a comment about draft release day of RDA Coinciding with Halloween. 

http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/130035213.html

Rong

JHU Digital Book Features in its OPAC

Check out this blog on the digital book project in Johns Hopkins. Click on its links to "OPAC" and "link resolver" to see how the digital book items displaying through OPAC and link resolver. It is amazing how they integrate google books search, amazon, Internet Archive, and many other features in their catalog. Unbelievable!

http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/umlaut-digital-book/

Rong

XC -- the eXtensible Catalog (developed by Univ of Rochester) Web site

The XC will be released next year. Check out its Web site:

http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/


Rong

Open Source Participant Satisfaction Survey

Hi all,

You may be interested in learning about this survey that is conducted by someone from Victoria University at Wellington in NZ:

http://surveys.sim.vuw.ac.nz/survey.aspx?surveyid=205

All the best,

Rong

Libraries and IT Departments

You may be interested in hearing this audio discussion on libraries and IT depts from Chronicle of Higher Education:

http://chronicle.com/media/audio/v55/i07/techtherapy/

Best,

Rong

Surpass searchpoint

Hi class,

Surpass searchpoint is a federated search tool that works with the Surpass databases. Here is the link to its demo site:

http://wfx.webfeat.org/wfsearch/menu?cid=10454

See you next Tuesday,

Rong 

EnvisionWare PC management software

Hi class,

I heard some good reports of the EnvisionWare's PC reservation software that helps to manage the public library's PC use.

http://www.envisionware.com/en/pc_reservation

Rong