Libraries and the Internet
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Internet Revives Public Libraries
Internet Revives Public Libraries
04/27/2004 07:28 AMLibraries to install Internet filters
Libraries to install Internet filters
06/14/2004 05:25 AMHome.hamptonroads.com - Mon Jun 14, 07:57 am GMT
Phoenix bans Internet porn at libraries
Phoenix bans Internet porn at libraries
09/09/2004 06:56 AMAzcentral.com - Thu Sep 9, 10:46 am GMT
International Libraries and the Internet
Archive collaborate
International Libraries and the Internet
Archive collaborate
01/02/2005 06:33 AMPress Trust Jan 2 2005 9:10AM GMT
Kuwait: Libraries playing key role even
in the age of Internet
Kuwait: Libraries playing key role even
in the age of Internet
08/15/2004 06:02 AMZawya.com - Sun Aug 15, 09:16 am GMT
Almost All Libraries in U.S. Offer Free
Access to Internet
Almost All Libraries in U.S. Offer Free
Access to Internet
06/24/2005 03:23 PMNew York Times Jun 24 2005 5:42AM GMT
Public Libraries, the Internet and the
Impact of the Gates Foundation
Public Libraries, the Internet and the
Impact of the Gates Foundation
04/22/2004 08:00 PMBeSpacific Apr 23 2004 0:49AM GMT
The amount of office space that
corporations allocate to their libraries
has fallen by 8.36% over the past five
years, according to a new survey of
corporate libraries "Corporate Library
Benchmarks, 2004-05 Edition" ISBN:
1-57440-069-X.
The amount of office space that
corporations allocate to their libraries
has fallen by 8.36% over the past five
years, according to a new survey of
corporate libraries "Corporate Library
Benchmarks, 2004-05 Edition" ISBN:
1-57440-069-X.
09/03/2004 02:51 AMReports on results of a major survey of corporate and other business
libraries. Gives extensive data on management policies and practices
and details on spending trends for salaries, electronic and print
materials, and library services. [PRWEB Sep 3, 2004]
Merge old iPhoto libraries on CD with
iPhoto 5 libraries
Merge old iPhoto libraries on CD with
iPhoto 5 libraries
03/19/2005 02:40 AMI had several iPhoto libraries burned to CD backups from iPhoto 3 or 4
that I wanted to merge with my nearly complete iPhoto 5 library.
However, because I burned the libraries directly to CD from the Finder
or Toast, and not ...
'UK libraries out of use by 2020'
'UK libraries out of use by 2020'
04/26/2004 09:46 PMThe public will stop using libraries if visitor numbers and book loans
continue to fall, according to a new report.
slack-get 0.2 (Libraries)
slack-get 0.2 (Libraries)
05/04/2004 04:41 PMA tool like 'apt-get' for Slackware.
Libraries 8, Amazon 0
Libraries 8, Amazon 0
12/09/2003 12:13 PMHave You
Ever Wondered....
"Have you ever wondered if the library were like Amazon.com?"
[The J-Walk
Blog]
New IM Record in Libraries
New IM Record in Libraries
03/14/2005 06:23 PMI've been so short on time lately that I've been trying to avoid
using what little blogging time I do have to simply repost what other
library bloggers are already putting up. This one, however, was just
too good to pass up.
when was the
last time you had this kind of response to a new library
service?
"Brian didn’t give me permission to publish a portion of
his email, but I’m so excited about it I’m going to throw caution
into the wind. He wrote [emphasis mine]:
'Rule number 1: Don’t send out IM reference fliers to
every middle school and jr. high classroom on the same day!
Had to have been at least 100 IMs in the first 2 hours after the
kiddies got home. For a while, I had about 20 IM windows up at once.'
"
Someone recently observed that there are a lot of Eeyo
res in the library community, but I think we can officially
declare IM reference a Martha-Stewart-good-thing for (at least) public
libraries and move it to Pooh status.
Cost of purchasing the AIM software: $0.
Cost of staff time to "man" the AIM service during those two hours:
already paid for.
Satisfaction of having 100 kids respond positively and view the
library in a new light: PRICELESS.
Merlin Libraries
Merlin Libraries
06/06/2004 05:02 AMMerlin Libraries v0.1.103 (unstable) Released
slack-get 0.3 (Libraries)
slack-get 0.3 (Libraries)
05/26/2004 10:49 PMA tool like 'apt-get' for Slackware.
Essential in Libraries?
Essential in Libraries?
04/27/2004 10:48 PMSMS an
Essential Communication Tool
"The Mobile Data Association (MDA) reports that 2.1 billion text
messages were sent in March 2004 in the U.K which is a 25% rise on the
total from the same month last year.At present, on average, around 69
million text messages are sent each day in the UK.This article from
the BBC states.'It is evident that in the last five years texting has
grown from a popular craze among teenagers to an essential
communication tool.'
Text
messaging reaches new high" [Smart Mobs]
YSL Coding Libraries
YSL Coding Libraries
12/11/2003 06:12 PMTransfer of CVS repository in progress
Salon in Libraries?
Salon in Libraries?
03/19/2003 10:45 PMLast year I said I thought Salon should look into licensing
content to libraries, and now they're finally doing something about
it. Adrienne Crew, their Content Licensing Manager, sent me the
following:
"Thought you'd like to know that Salon's Premium Institutional
Subscription program for libraries is finally up and running....
Currently we are offering a one year subscription in the $300-400
range and feeds all access to the articles on the site via an IP
authentication system or a single password."
More details as I get them.
2D Graphics Libraries
2D Graphics Libraries
05/05/2004 07:45 PM
While platforms these days have fairly good 2D graphics support
like Quartz on OSX,
GDI+ on XP, and , and Gnome Canvas, developers like me often have
to use third-party
libraries for whatever reasons. On Win32, for example, GDI+
support is missing
in legacy platforms which means either giving up on fancy
graphics, redistributing
GDI+ binaries, use a third party library, or writing one
yourself. Writing one
yourself is fun (I have done it a couple of times over 20 years)
but, unless it offers
some unique features, you'll always end up migrating to a third
party library.
BTW, Flash has an excellent 2D graphics engine but it's lacks an
API so it's like
a sports car without a driving wheel. Yes, you can embed the
Flash ActiveX and
generate SWF on-the-fly but it's unwieldy for dynamic interaction
and even handling
gets tricky. Embedding Adobe SVG ActiveX is just as unwieldy
if not more.
While there are proprietary 2D engines out there, typically written
by a few guys
at a small company, they tend to disappear within a couple of
years, either bought
by companies (i.e. Apple, Adobe, Macromind, and Microsoft), or
abandoned out
of lack of interest or workable revenue model. Besides, they
charge fairly steep
fees so I tend to avoid them.
Out of all the freely available 2D libraries out there, Libart stands
out in features and quality. It offers fast
anti-aliased rendering
and it's use in Gnome Canvas over the years means most of the bugs
have already been
stepped on. Libart is also used to drive librsvg,
a SVG engine, and Java 2D, Java's graphics API, although Sun made
extensive changes
to tap hardware acceleration. While Libart can and has been
used cross-platform,
it's not exactly cakewalk to use in non-Linix platofrms. Cairo has
some interesting features and rising interest could mean it will
replace Libart someday,
but it's still in development.
Third-party 2D graphics library I really like these days is Anti-Grain
Geometry (AGG) which, although dormant for the last two years,
has been rejuvenated
with the released of version 2.1. AGG is written in C++ and
uses templates extensively
like ATL does. AGG is lightweight, very fast, flexible, and
full of features.
It even comes with a partial implementation of SVG
viewer as an example. AGG supports Win32, X11, and SDL as
is. It doesn't
yet support features variable stroke effects like Creature House's
Expression
3 engine and Fractal Design's Painter support but then
it's just me being
unreasonable. :-)
I should note that subpixel graphics was first done 20 years
ago in Word
Handler to display 70 columns of hi-res text on Apple
II.Silicon
Valley Systems, the company that published Word Handler, was
based just 5 minutes
from where I live now and I enjoy fond memories of working there
every time I pass
by the old office on El Camino. I guess everybody remembers
their first job.
LCD screens were just starting to replace LED on calculators at the
time, so Steve
Gibson and Microsoft ClearType can claim to be the first to use
subpixel graphics
on LCD screen. Lenny Elekman, where are you now?
PlanetaMessenger.org Libraries
PlanetaMessenger.org Libraries
11/01/2003 10:43 AMJMML 0.4 released
NB Parser Libraries
NB Parser Libraries
06/11/2004 09:55 AMProject started
"http://p2p.libraries.psu.edu/"
"http://p2p.libraries.psu.edu/"
11/18/2003 03:32 AMIt’s the Libraries, Stupid
It’s the Libraries, Stupid
06/09/2004 11:39 PMVia Jeff Dillon,
some insightful words on programming in Java and
in the C#/.NET/Mono ecosystem. I hadn’t thought about it that way.
Echidna Libraries
Echidna Libraries
07/15/2004 07:16 AMAdded 8Bit Targa Support
England Libraries May All Get Wi-Fi
England Libraries May All Get Wi-Fi
12/04/2003 01:07 PMThe majority of libraries in England already have broadband access but
now the government is working on adding Wi-Fi: Most of the libraries
in King County, outside of Seattle, have Wi-Fi. It's a great, low-cost
way for libraries to offer Internet access without having to provide
computers for everyone. My library always has a line of people waiting
to get on its computers so perhaps with Wi-Fi some people could come
in with their own computers to use the Internet. But I wonder how many
of the people I see waiting in line there actually have laptops that
they could bring with them instead....
Arran4's Libraries (A4lib)
Arran4's Libraries (A4lib)
08/20/2004 09:28 PMProject registered
Libraries reach out on-line
Libraries reach out on-line
12/29/2004 12:06 PMglobetechnology.com Dec 29 2004 3:22PM GMT
Building Testing Libraries
Building Testing Libraries
05/07/2004 07:22 PMSave time, test more, and use what the CPAN has made available to
enhance your development. Casey West demonstrates examples of good
techniques when testing Perl-based software.
Are We at Year One of Texting in
Libraries? No.
Are We at Year One of Texting in
Libraries? No.
12/27/2004 12:53 AMI'll Give You a Bell : 20 Years of the Mobile Phone
"In just two decades, the mobile phone has become the
fastest-selling, most loved - and hated - consumer product. Britain is
the world's most mature mobile market, with more mobiles per head of
population and higher bills than any other country. Almost all adults
now have at least one mobile phone, one in two teenagers has a 'moby'
and a new British firm, Communic8, has just launched MyMo, a simple
phone for four- to eight-year-olds. Some 23 billion texts have been
sent this year and more than 20 billion calls made. The total value of
this electronic white noise is £15 billion....
Perhaps the biggest change mobiles have wrought is in the language
of communication we all use. Textsperanto - the amalgam of abbreviated
words, acronyms and coded punctuation that teenagers developed so that
they can fit more words into their space-limited SMS messages - was
designed to be impenetrable to adults but most of us have a grasp of
it now. When a pupil at a Scottish secondary school handed in an essay
entirely written 'in txt', her teacher gave her a 'C+ 4 e4t'....
For the refuseniks, however, the battle against the tiny power
tools is about to get a lot tougher. Twenty years after Ernie Wise
first pressed the green 'call send' button on a brick-sized Motorola
handset, the latest tiny, third-generation - 3G - phones are about to
hit the market. Today, thousands of teenagers and adults are poring
over geeky phone manuals, configuring their new handsets so that they
can surf the internet, download real-time TV and video clips, take
photographs, make video calls and play MP3 music files." [The Guardian, via textually.org]
I had to call Sprint today to find out why I haven't been able to
access any data services at home on my Treo for the last 10 days or
so. The new recording that you hear - first thing - is a message
noting that activations may take up to 24 hours because so many people
are revving up their new phones.
I find the following overheard conversation to be pretty
typical:
"College Girl: Yeah, I called mom and dad
and left a message on their machine. I've been calling their cell
phones too but they never pick up. They just don't understand.
(pause....) Yeah, they don't get it -- cell phones are supposed to be
carried around with them." [CamWorld]
Computers in Libraries -- Wednesday
Computers in Libraries -- Wednesday
03/19/2005 02:36 AM
I went to four sessions yesterday in addition to the keynote and went
to the dead technologies night session, and I wonder why I'm tired
when I get to the...
Computers in Libraries: Keeping Up
Computers in Libraries: Keeping Up
03/19/2005 02:36 AM
Gary Price, Genie Tyburski, and Steven Cohen talked about keeping up
in "Tips for Keeping Up: Expert Panel" that was the last item on Track
A on Wednesday. (Track A...
SSTTR Java Libraries 1.1
SSTTR Java Libraries 1.1
05/09/2004 04:42 AM
Miscellaneous Java libraries for XML, crypto, and other things.
RSS Screen Saver for Libraries!
RSS Screen Saver for Libraries!
08/27/2004 01:54 PM
C# Express RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit
"One of my favorite features of C# Express is the built-in RSS
Screen saver Starter Kit. If you’ve never built a
screensaver before, or if you have never written code that uses RSS,
then you’ll find the RSS Screen saver a great way to start
programming.
In a nutshell, the RSS Screen saver is a screen saver that lets you
select and validate an RSS feed, select a background directory
for images to loop through, and the screensaver will loop through the
items in the RSS feed." [Dan Fernandez's Blog, via
del.icio.us/tag/rss]
I'm not enough of a programmer to run with this one, but this could
be a very cool tool for libraries. Imagine being able to display your
current news on your workstations via the screensaver in real-time
without any manual intervention. Just update your "what's new" blog
and it magically appears on all of your workstations. Major, major
woot with a happy dance thrown in for good measure!
Anarchists, Libraries and Freedom
Anarchists, Libraries and Freedom
05/17/2004 08:50 PM
Siva Vaidhyanathan is in town
today to promote his new book, The Anarchist in the Library, which I've read and
highly recommend. I'll explain why in an upcoming posting.
Google to index libraries
Google to index libraries
12/17/2004 06:37 PM
In yeste
rday's link dump, I inexplicitly buried a link to the big news about Google's plan to index the books at The Libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the
University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York
Public Library. Wow!
In the meantime, Microsoft released a toolbar suite. Uhmmm,
wow?
Note to Microsoft: I like your OS, but you're falling waaay
yy behind.
Google Scans the Libraries
Google Scans the Libraries
12/17/2004 06:43 PM
Google to scan books from big libraries: Google is going to start
scanning the books in libraries.
The New York library is allowing Google to include a small
portion of its books no longer covered by copyright while Harvard is
confining its participation to 40,000 volumes so it can gauge how well
the process works. Oxford wants Google to scan all its books
originally published before 1901.
How NOT to Market WiFi in Libraries
How NOT to Market WiFi in Libraries
12/12/2003 10:21 AM
Marketing
Wireless in Libraries
"Someone on Web4Lib asked about posting symbols or signage to
identify wireless access in libraries. This is a slightly revised
version of my reply on the list, sent after several folks referred the
original poster to the wireless warchalking
symbols popular among the digerati.
Essentially, this is basic library marketing 101. If you're
planning to market wireless services not only to the folks who will
seek it, but to folks who would either find a way to use it if they
knew what it was or may never even use it but will mentally file this
service under 'what a great library this is,' then integrate the fancy
symbols with very plainspoken, large, plain-lettered wording. Go to a
site that offers wireless for its customers and see how they peddle
it. (Remember, that's what you're doing: selling a service.)
Make the language achingly clear. 'Wireless hotspot' comes to
mind... but maybe something else makes more sense locally. Assuming
you have a bookmark or brochure advertising this service, repeat the
logo and the phrase throughout the materials. I know that libraries
offer things for free anyway, but why not push that as well?
Wireless--FREE!...
Or you could practice another kind of library marketing, and either
put up one tiny, very obscure sign, or make it very large and then
title it 'Bibligraphic WEP-enabled 802.11* Access.' And in your
assessment of the service, observe that very few people use it. ;)
" [Free Range
Librarian]
I just had to blog Karen's response because it's so true it's
tragically funny.
Ham Radio Control Libraries 1.2.0
Ham Radio Control Libraries 1.2.0
02/18/2004 01:18 PM
Shared libraries for HAM radio equipment control.
Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator
Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator
05/24/2004 01:41 AM
TV News in a
Postmodern World: The Busine$$ of RSS
"Want a glimpse of tomorrow? Innovators Bill French and Harry Hayes
are SmartStream Alliance™ and have a product that's so compelling
that news executives of every sort will be scrambling to be first in
their market with it....
RSxStream is a sophisticated and ingenious software engine
that takes RSS, Atom, RDF, XML, any other sort of feed or data stream,
or any other content that lives on the Internet and makes it available
to the desktop via a contextual reader. End users are given a
state-of-the-art reader — capable of grabbing anything from live
TV to music to video-on-demand to simple RSS text feeds. If it's
available via the Internet (today), it can be routed through the
RSxStream engine. The end users have complete control of what sources
they choose, as they would with any other RSS reader. The difference
is those choices are drawn indirectly, through the RSxStream
software....
What's crucial to understand with this is that whoever provides the
reader to the public also owns the engine, and THAT is the business
end of RSS. It means advertising can be crafted into the design of the
reader and delivered based on the choices, habits and interests of the
end user. It's contextual advertising nirvana. This type of business
currently does not exist, but it's ideal for local media outlets. Why?
Because we're in the information distribution business, and getting
the reader onto the public's desktops is the key to its success.
Moreover, if the local media entities don't do it, somebody else will,
and they will take all those ad dollars with them." [DONATA Communications, via JD on MX]
I love the idea of providing the reader and even pre-populating it
with feeds relevant to the intended audience, but I hate the
idea of some company monetizing it. I'd much rather get a grant and
have libraries provide this information-centric software. We're in the
"information distribution" business, too, except we're interested in
people getting information without strings attached.
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