Archive for December 19th, 2006

InMagic to Offer RSS Capabilities with its Products

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Inmagic, a library vendor offering several different technology products, has added RSS capabilities to its latest WebPublisher PRO v10, scheduled to be released in a few days. Their press release has more details. Many of us keep hoping library system vendors will do more with feeds. Here’s one that is. noticed on Library Stuff

Problems for Windows 2000 users

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Information Week reports that Office 2007 and Zune won’t install on Windows 2000. Windows Defender also won’t install on Windows 2000, but the article mentions a workaround. The article mentions that Microsoft doesn’t plan to release a patch that will update Windows 2000 systems to the new time-zone definitons. The article does mention a procedure [...]

New copyright tool scans web for violations

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Monday’s Wall Street Journal reports that there’s new company will begin testing a system to scan the billions of pages on the Web for clients’ audio, video, images and text, potentially making it easier for owners to request that Web sites take content down or provide payment for its use.  http://tinyurl.com/yc9zm6

Credible and credited: the rise of the media librarians

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

“Newspaper librarians are now more involved in online research and training than archiving, writes Richard Nelsson, looking how the role at the Guardian has evolved from filing cuttings to direct support for journalists filing stories.”  http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C6A… This was mentioned on Peter Scott’s Library Blog a few weeks ago, but I haven’t had the time to [...]

Turn The Page

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Greetings There’s a new library cartoon called Turn the page  http://librarycartoons.blogspot.com/inde… If you liked the Unshelved strip, http://www.overduemedia.com/ then you’ll like this one! links via LibrarianinBlack:  http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/