Library Cataloging
Random Hacks of Kindness might be of interest to any library coders living in the SF Bay Area.
- Hurricane Ike
The Texas Library Association is assembling reports on libraries affected by Hurricane Ike and has put them online. You can donate to the Disaster Relief Fund. The Society of Southwest Archivists has set up an unofficial Wiki so that repositories can...
- Podcasting
It seems podcasting is for older folks, not the young. Maybe it appeals to those who liked CB and short wave radios. It is a very linear form of communication and not very participatory. What does this mean for the library? Well, it could be a good tool...
- Google Book
This looks interesting, especially with the Open WorldCat program and Google Scholar recently getting so much attention. Google Hacks, 2nd ed. by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest.In his foreword to the book, Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology at...
- Google Hacks
Over at Research Buzz there are several Google hacks and bookmarklets. Maybe it is time for an O'Reilly book Librarian Hacks?Research Buzz and Librarian.net have both had nice things to say about Catalogablog in the past two days. Thanks. Welcome...
- Metatags
An End to Metatags (Enough Already) by Andrew Goodman. pt.1, pt.2My recent editorial about metatags generated some helpful reader responses. My basic point still holds. Metadata as currently structured, in the context of a non-ideal world, is open to...
Library Cataloging
Random Hacks of Kindness
Random Hacks of Kindness might be of interest to any library coders living in the SF Bay Area.
Random Hacks of Kindness
The Disaster Relief Codejam
What is Random Hacks of Kindness?
It is an initiative that brings together disaster relief experts and software engineers to work on identifying key challenges to disaster relief, and developing solutions to these critical issues. This Codejam is the first of a series of Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) events that will bring the best and brightest together for a "give camp" to solve real world-problems related to Crisis/Disaster Relief.
- Hurricane Ike
The Texas Library Association is assembling reports on libraries affected by Hurricane Ike and has put them online. You can donate to the Disaster Relief Fund. The Society of Southwest Archivists has set up an unofficial Wiki so that repositories can...
- Podcasting
It seems podcasting is for older folks, not the young. Maybe it appeals to those who liked CB and short wave radios. It is a very linear form of communication and not very participatory. What does this mean for the library? Well, it could be a good tool...
- Google Book
This looks interesting, especially with the Open WorldCat program and Google Scholar recently getting so much attention. Google Hacks, 2nd ed. by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest.In his foreword to the book, Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology at...
- Google Hacks
Over at Research Buzz there are several Google hacks and bookmarklets. Maybe it is time for an O'Reilly book Librarian Hacks?Research Buzz and Librarian.net have both had nice things to say about Catalogablog in the past two days. Thanks. Welcome...
- Metatags
An End to Metatags (Enough Already) by Andrew Goodman. pt.1, pt.2My recent editorial about metatags generated some helpful reader responses. My basic point still holds. Metadata as currently structured, in the context of a non-ideal world, is open to...