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Posts from November 2006

tap tap, is this thing on?

Thank you to all who have filled in the special library 2.0 survey, from the quick glance I had at the responses, I’m already noticing some interesting trends. The survey is still up and will be for a few more days, so if any special library types out there haven’t filled it in yet, please [...]


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15 Nov 2006

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ILS Symosium: closing panel Q & A

For the Evergreen developers: What are you doing with your acquisitions module? – will do focus groups again to ask what works, what doesn’t, what do you like about systems you’ve used, what don’t you like, etc. Mellon grants to help with these developments – are the Evergreen folks aware of this? – one thing [...]


ILS Symosium: Alan Darnell

Welcoming the Prodigal Child: E-Resources and the OPAC, Alan Darnell, Scholars Portal Project Scholars Portal – repatriation of e-journal literature from publishers – collection of 7500 journals and 10 million full-text articles – local load of 130 abstracts and index databases representing over 150 million records – interest in extending this model to ebooks Why [...]


ILS Symposium: PINES Consortium

Evergreen: The ILS is Open and Everyone is Invited! (Brad LaJeunesse, Linux Systems Administrator, Public Information Network for Electronic Services (PINES) Consortium; Mike Rylander, Development Consultant, PINES Consortium; David Singleton – Deputy State Librarian Georgia; Julie Walker, Program Director, PINES Consortium) Overview of PINES – 44 public library systems – 252 member libraries – 123 [...]


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15 Nov 2006

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ILS Symposium: Peter Murray, OhioLINK

Could We Do What They Are Doing? Applying the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Model to Libraries, Peter Murray (of the Disruptive Library Technology Jester blog!) Overview – How can we apply what works in other industries to our industry? – What is an SOA? And why should I care? – What might a library SOA [...]




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