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- Two paths for information management pros in an economic downturn
- There's nothing like an economic downturn to catalyze change in information management IM strategies. Someone asked me recently, "Isn't information management a discretionary spend that will likely get cut in an economic downturn?" He cited the fact that tools for collaboration, content, and business intelligence are traditionally difficult to financially...
- Tags: Information Management, Business Technology Team, Strategy, Management, Matthew Brown
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets
- The world won't end when the Large Hadron Collider makes its anticipated first collision of high-energy particles later this month, but it will produce an explosion of data. The LHC will produce as much data in a single day of experimentation as many scientists dealt with in a lifetime only...
- Tags: Data, Data Set, Policies And Procedures, Benefits, Robots, Wiki, Strategy, Human Resources, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Chinese censorship: to protect 'healthy growth of our youth'
- Chinese censorship: to protect 'healthy growth of our youth'Chinese CensorshipThe Chinese government wants open wallets but not open minds.Unfortunatelywhat also went out of fashion in the 60s was an understanding of Communists, such that you actually think that American censorship in the 50s to reflect community values and Chinese Communist...
- Tags: INTERNET, Chinese Government, censorship, Chinese Censorship, youth
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Google's search share tops 61 percent; That'll spook Microsoft more
- Google's search share tops 61 percent; That'll spook Microsoft moreWhen one thinks Google...they think search. Other players in the game don't even come to mind.A little marketing could go a long ways for other search providers.Why is it growing?I personally feel it is, by far, not the best search engine...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters
- Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...
- Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Is Google locking up historical works?
- Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal...
- Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Portals, Channel Management, Internet, Web Technology, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Avid Interplay Web Services
- Avid Interplay is a non linear workflow management system that is able to connect editors, producers, designers, animators, writers, assistants, administrators - even finance and legal departments - in a real-time nonlinear production environment. Interplay can be configured to automate routine tasks, track any kind of media, streamline administration, prevent...
- Tags: Avid Technology Inc., Web Service, Avid Interplay
- White papers 2008-04-12
- CoSearch: A System for Co-Located Collaborative Web Search
- Web search is often viewed as a solitary task; however, there are many situations in which groups of people gather around a single computer to jointly search for information online. This paper presents the findings of interviews with teachers, librarians, and developing world researchers that provide details about users' collaborative...
- Tags: Collaborative Web, Association For Computing Machinery, Collaboration
- White papers 2008-04-10
- Free software tools for archivists
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC archivists have developed a free software kit named Archon to help other librarians to manage their collections. This software has been designed for archivists with limited access to technological resources. It's free and you can download it to manage your own music or book...
- Tags: Software, Archivist, University Of Illinois, Collection, Tool, UIUC, Archon Project, Tools & Techniques, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- I love Google...don't tell the librarian!
- I love Google...don't tell the librarian!How about telling your librarian, "I love Google Scholar"?Google Scholar, great tool for legitimate research.Fair enough[i]I don’t think that her librarian is alone in her dislike of Google.[/i]That's fair. During school hours, firewall Google and direct all requests to the librarian. She doesn't...
- Tags: Wiki, PRODUCTIVITY, librarian, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- I love Google...don't tell the librarian!
- I'm taking a grad class right now in analysis and problem solving methods. At the moment, we're using Matlab to analyze .wav files and explore harmonics, series, and some very interesting trigonometry. An undergrad made the mistake of walking into the class to drop off materials for the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Wikipedia, Librarian, Productivity, Wiki, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?
- As you can see from this past Friday's "unboxing" video, I received for review a Kindle ebook from Amazon. In that video and its accompanying blog post, I had some initial thoughts on the Kindle and now that a full weekend has passed I have a lot more to...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., E-book, Kindle, Montag, Fahrenheit 1981.4, E-books, Personal Technology, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- What's wrong with Facebook
- Doc Searls is complaining that Facebook takes too much time. He's right. The problem is that Facebook is annoying because that's what works. Facebook's success depends on bothering you incessantly and creating things for you to do. Developers have flocked to Facebook as a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Problem, Channel Management, Marketing, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- World Digital Library to offer the world's cultures online
- Two years ago, James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, proposed a global digital library. The vision may be realized over the coming years, The Washington Post reports. The World Digital Library -- comprised of international librarians, computer scientists and U.N. officials -- unveiled a prototype for the project ...
- Tags: Culture, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- EndNote (dmg)
- Millions of researchers, scholarly writers, students, and librarians use EndNote patent pending to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, images and PDFs in any language, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly. Instead of spending hours typing bibliographies, or using index cards to organize their references, they do it...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Reference, EndNote, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-10-18
- Rutgers, Va. Tech join forces on digital archive
- Rutgers University librarians are helping to create a digital archive of thousands of artifacts collected after the Virginia Tech massacre, The Star-Ledger reports. Among the artifacts being captured: some of the folder paper cranes that students and others made as a symbol of peace after the killings. ...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Artifact, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Library management software...open source or not?
- Library management software...open source or not?SageBrushWe currently have some of our elementary/middle schools running Athena. The high school upgrade to InfoCentre last year. It does get pricey with the renewal/maintenance fees. I think our media specialist would be very interested in open-source alternatives.Personally...I'd be tempted by "Koha." Not that I...
- Tags: software, Koha, Athol PL, school library, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- Avaya Case Study: Salem Press
- Founded in 1949, Salem Press is the only North American publisher that has a catalogue built exclusively around reference materials and a finite number of clients: the approximately 140,000 librarians in the United States. To add to the challenge, libraries are funded by the public and must adhere to stringent...
- Tags: Avaya Inc., Sales Strategy, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Sales Force Management, Telecommunications, Sales, Networking
- Case studies 2007-06-01
- Harvard Law prof weighs in on RIAA
- In the May 1st issue of The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson spoke out against the RIAA's stepped-up attempts to turn "librarians and administrators [into] copyright police". While he claimed to understand the RIAA's motivation, he noted that "mere understanding is no reason for a university to ...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
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