Yearly Archives: 2005

568 posts

Open Source Bibliography

One of our assignments this semester is a weekly post about some type of OSS news or thread. Here’s my first one: Please visit: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/brenda_chawner/biblio.html The page description includes: This bibliography has been compiled by Brenda Chawner, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, as part of her Ph.D. studies. It includes announcements, journal articles, and web documents that are about open source software development in libraries. What a wonderful clearinghouse off all things OSS and libraries. I have just started to go through some of them. There are definetly some articles I would like to track […]

Comment from Information Wants to Be Free – Tech Planning

http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/index.php?p=118 There are libraries that are completely adverse to change and to technology, and there are libraries that are so tech-forward that they pass their patrons by. Neither of these approaches is a good idea. Ask your patrons what they want; what they?d like to see at the library. Base your decisions about what technologies to implement on where your patrons are (and where your staff is) ? not on what looks cool. Not every library should be implementing the same sort of technologies. It all should be based on your population?s needs. What a concise, eloquent statement. That’s what […]

Twelve Techie Things for Librarians 2005 (Updated)

In lieu of looking back at 2004, I thought I’d look ahead at some things librarians need to be aware of as we move into the middle of the decade. These are the things I would want a knowledgeable, tech savvy staff to be aware of and consider for their libraries. In strategic planning, long range plan meetings and the like I would hope an “in the know” librarian at the table could speak about these things. These are culled from various blogs, presentations, discussions and pondering. For your consideration: User-Centered Technology Planning “Technology is a tool..it is only a […]

Flickr Friends (updated)

Just recently a couple of friends have shared their flickr pages with me…adding me as a “contact.” I like this type of exchange… the sharing of images…and the fact that I get a glimpse into the lives of friends and colleagues! Here’s mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/ Friends (Updated) http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetneutral/ Mr. Greg Schwartz, fellow Hoosier http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamorico/ (Mike from work) http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking/ (David King from KCPL) http://www.flickr.com/photos/45728937@N00/ (Rob Coers in the Netherlands!) http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/ (Jessamyn!)

Coding in Texas

I made it to Texas about three hours late for the start of class but all is well. This semester’s BIG class is SLIS 6910 with Dr. Sam Hastings and Shannon Peevey. The topic: Open Source Digital Library Tools! http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php We started with some lecture, software installation and basic command line practice. I am using my Mac for this class — running OS 10.3.7 — and guess what : I have all the tools built in to my system. I open the terminal mode and it is there! I was tickled. This semester we will code in Python, discuss issues […]