The Massachusetts Open Source Project, which includes selecting an open source ILS system for three Massachusetts library networks, will be holding information sessions on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at the Palmer Public Library and Thursday, October 29, 2009 at the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium offices in North Andover, Massachusetts. Staff from MVLC, NOBLE and [...]
Jenny Levine of the Shifted Librarian library blog started to use WordPress’ Lifestream plugin which allows her to post feeds from her major sites such as Flickr, delicious, Twitter, Google Reader, and Youtube onto her blog. It also allows her to add any other RSS feeds not listed.
This looks like an interesting experiment using [...]
Issue 7 of the Code4Lib Journal is out:
How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source
Extracting User Interaction Information from the Transaction Logs of a Faceted Navigation OPAC
Using a Web Services Architecture with Me, Myself and I
Deciphering Journal Abbreviations with JAbbr
Repurposing ProQuest Metadata for Batch Ingesting ETDs into an Institutional Repository
Bibliographic Metadata Extraction from [...]
The Boston Public Library is holding a panel discussion on the Google Book Search Settlement called Expanding Access to Books: Implications of the Google Books Settlement Agreement on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 6 pm:
Speakers:
* Daniel Clancy, Engineering Director, Google Books
* John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III [...]
NISO is holding a 2 day forum called Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities on October 8-9, 2009 at the Metro Meeting Center in Boston, Massachusetts:
“Libraries have a dizzying array of options for acquiring, implementing, and modifying library resource management systems. The ballooning number of choices reflects the changing character of this marketplace. [...]
The Berkman Center is also holding a workshop called “Google Books Search Settlement Open Workshop: Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries” on Friday July 31, 2009 at the Harvard Law School:
“The proposed Google Book Search settlement creates the opportunity for unprecedented access by the public, scholars, libraries and others to a digital library containing millions [...]
The Berkman Center is holding a discussion on the Google Book Search Settlement on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 12:30 pm. Alexander Macgillivray, Deputy General Counsel for Products and Intellectual Property at Google (and soon to be General Counsel of Twitter), will discuss the Google Book Search Settlement.
RSVP required for those attending in [...]
The Darien(CT) Library is holding the following talk on Thursday, March 26, 2009:
Join us on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. at Darien Library in Darien, Connecticut, for:
In the Foothills: A Not-Quite-Summit on the Future of Libraries
At many Library conferences these days, we focus on technology so intensely that often we forget to consider [...]
The January 22 Guardian has an interesting article called “Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine: Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search. But thanks to a US cataloguing site, that is far from the case”:
Despite the internet’s origins as an academic network, when [...]
There’s another library blog book called LibWorld – library blogs worldwide:
Description:
“On April, 23rd 2007 a series of postings started on Infobib.de, where guest authors from all over the world introduced the library and library related blogs of their own country. This book is a collection of 30 revised LibWorld articles, accompanied by a foreword by [...]