Monthly Archives: July 2009

Canonical identifiers – coming soon!?

July 27, 2009 – 9:57 am

Go here http://www.oclc.org/publisher%2Dsymposium/summary/default.htm
to learn about metadata, MARC, ONIX, and Glimir (Global Library Manifestation Identifier)…from a symposium of publishers and librarians. Easy to skim summary of meeting with links to powerpoints. Chris H.

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Dr. Who…or Mobile Computing in the UK

July 17, 2009 – 2:22 pm

Despite the picture on its cover, a report issued by Cambridge University is not about Dr. Who, but rather about how libraries might or should adopt mobile technologies to benefit their users.  The study examined Cambridge University and the Open University and acknowledges that the use of IPhones in the UK is not as prevalent [...]

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Microsoft vs. Google, again

July 9, 2009 – 4:26 pm

From the New York Times, State of the Art, By David Pogue:
Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better
“…And now we have yet another me-too effort. It’s something called Bing, and it’s the latest iteration of Microsoft’s multiyear attempt to imitate Google.
The name, presumably, is supposed to evoke the sound of a winning [...]

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The Parable of the Inventor and the Trucker

July 2, 2009 – 9:48 am

From the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus comes this entertaining parable that sheds some light on the way academic publishing works:
David Wiley: The Parable of the Inventor and the Trucker
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“The inventor had to sign all the intellectual-property rights to her product over to the truckers.
The truckers would keep all the profits from sales [...]

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