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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Looking Back
One of the most interesting things about going to two conferences in three weeks is that the contrasts between them become much more apparent. Take, for example, the dress codes. ACRL was definitely on the business casual side. We all looked exactly like what we were: 3200 librarians. At CIL, things were a little more [...]
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Federated Search on Steroids – but Still Broken
Ex Libris vendors showed me Primo while I was at CIL. It workes on top of Metalib and your catalog to function as a search of everything available through the library. Shiny. Probably the flashiest thing they showed was opening a video and a text version of the same title in two side-by-side windows. If [...]
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Catalogs that are Both Useful and Fun
[Update 4/27/2007: LibraryThing for Libraries tour available here.] [Update 5/14/2007: The Danbury Library catalog has LTfL active in it's catalog (sample record here).] I went to the exhibit hall the last morning of CIL, had a great time talking to Tim Spalding about Library Thing for Libraries (demo link coming soon to his blog, he [...]
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Blogging about Conference Blogging
I’m so bad at napping that I nearly always give up the struggle, even when I’m completely exhausted. So here I am blogging rather than napping. And speaking of blogging, I was sitting there at Steven Cohen’s presentation (or rather, on the stairs outside of the overflowing overflow room), taking notes and using my wireless [...]
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