Library Cataloging
Here is a free tool to test your sound card. The RightMark Audio Analyzer 4.0 tests the audio performance of your sound card. Frequency response, THD, dynamic range, noise level, stereo crosstalk tests.
- Printing Labels
Looking for advice. I want to print card labels. I hear there is a problem with spine labels fading, sometimes rather quickly, at least on the Dymo printers. Since we are a research library, materials are rarely weeded. I can't afford to redo all...
- Library Card Sign-up Month
September is Library Card Sign-up Month. It is also library card renewal month at MPOW, the Lunar and Planetary Institute. In my latest podcast I used the 10 second clip from ALA to reinforce the renewal message. (I felt like a sound engineer getting...
- Podcasting Tips
Podcasting is not so new any more. It seems to me, it is past the time that just throwing up an MP3 file is enough. I've heard some pretty poor production that made me just move on to the next selection on my player. So, here are a few tips I've...
- Audio Standards
Memory institutions often have collections of non-commercial sound recordings. Oral history projects, meetings and presentations, and local music are some examples. Transferring these from tape to digital will provide better access, they may even be placed...
- Catalogs
An interesting idea on usr/lib/info, benchmarking ILS performance.I wonder if anyone is aware of a set of tests for catalogs that would test their response times on a range of possible queries (from simple author or title searches to more complex multi-field...
Library Cataloging
Sound Card
Here is a free tool to test your sound card. The RightMark Audio Analyzer 4.0 tests the audio performance of your sound card. Frequency response, THD, dynamic range, noise level, stereo crosstalk tests.
- Printing Labels
Looking for advice. I want to print card labels. I hear there is a problem with spine labels fading, sometimes rather quickly, at least on the Dymo printers. Since we are a research library, materials are rarely weeded. I can't afford to redo all...
- Library Card Sign-up Month
September is Library Card Sign-up Month. It is also library card renewal month at MPOW, the Lunar and Planetary Institute. In my latest podcast I used the 10 second clip from ALA to reinforce the renewal message. (I felt like a sound engineer getting...
- Podcasting Tips
Podcasting is not so new any more. It seems to me, it is past the time that just throwing up an MP3 file is enough. I've heard some pretty poor production that made me just move on to the next selection on my player. So, here are a few tips I've...
- Audio Standards
Memory institutions often have collections of non-commercial sound recordings. Oral history projects, meetings and presentations, and local music are some examples. Transferring these from tape to digital will provide better access, they may even be placed...
- Catalogs
An interesting idea on usr/lib/info, benchmarking ILS performance.I wonder if anyone is aware of a set of tests for catalogs that would test their response times on a range of possible queries (from simple author or title searches to more complex multi-field...