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ING launches new broker-dealer platform
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ING launches new broker-dealer platform
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050321/clm04
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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 AM
Reports 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 AM
I 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 ...

Echidna Libraries

Echidna Libraries 07/15/2004 07:16 AM
Added 8Bit Targa Support

'UK libraries out of use by 2020'

'UK libraries out of use by 2020' 04/26/2004 09:46 PM
The public will stop using libraries if visitor numbers and book loans continue to fall, according to a new report.

New IM Record in Libraries

New IM Record in Libraries 03/14/2005 06:23 PM

I'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.

Salon in Libraries?

Salon in Libraries? 03/19/2003 10:45 PM

Last 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.

England Libraries May All Get Wi-Fi

England Libraries May All Get Wi-Fi 12/04/2003 01:07 PM
The 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....

PlanetaMessenger.org Libraries

PlanetaMessenger.org Libraries 11/01/2003 10:43 AM
JMML 0.4 released

Libraries and the Internet

Libraries and the Internet 12/19/2004 03:00 PM
Kudos to Google and its new university allies -- including my alma mater, the University of Michigan, as well as Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford -- for their exciting project to open the stacks (Wall Street Journal, via Paul Kedrosky). It's a great day for the dissemination of knowledge! Bloggers from these institutions are relaying the emails received from their administrators: ...

YSL Coding Libraries

YSL Coding Libraries 12/11/2003 06:12 PM
Transfer of CVS repository in progress

Libraries 8, Amazon 0

Libraries 8, Amazon 0 12/09/2003 12:13 PM

Have You Ever Wondered....

"Have you ever wondered if the library were like Amazon.com?" [The J-Walk Blog]

Essential in Libraries?

Essential in Libraries? 04/27/2004 10:48 PM
SMS 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]

slack-get 0.2 (Libraries)

slack-get 0.2 (Libraries) 05/04/2004 04:41 PM
A tool like 'apt-get' for Slackware.

It’s the Libraries, Stupid

It’s the Libraries, Stupid 06/09/2004 11:39 PM
Via Jeff Dillon, some insightful words on programming in Java and in the C#/.NET/Mono ecosystem. I hadn’t thought about it that way.

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?

Merlin Libraries

Merlin Libraries 06/06/2004 05:02 AM
Merlin Libraries v0.1.103 (unstable) Released

slack-get 0.3 (Libraries)

slack-get 0.3 (Libraries) 05/26/2004 10:49 PM
A tool like 'apt-get' for Slackware.

NB Parser Libraries

NB Parser Libraries 06/11/2004 09:55 AM
Project started

ACCESS AT UK PUBLIC LIBRARIES

ACCESS AT UK PUBLIC LIBRARIES 12/30/2003 07:42 PM
IN THE UK MOST PUBLIC LIBRARIES CAN BE ACCESSED. THEN AGAIN WHY NOT JUST POP IN AS THE WEB IS ACCESSED FREE ANYWAY.

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.

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.

Medical Libraries in Europe

Medical Libraries in Europe 04/28/2004 05:53 AM
Medical Libraries in Europe
http://www.pubmed.nl/libeur.htm

A comprehensive listing of medical libraries in Europe. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Reuniting iPhoto Libraries

Reuniting iPhoto Libraries 01/17/2004 10:43 PM

CyberInfrastructure Needs Libraries and
Archives

CyberInfrastructure Needs Libraries and
Archives 07/12/2004 06:00 AM
CyberInfrastructure Needs Libraries and Archives
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues40.html#comm

A new American Council of Learned Societies initiative provides a unique opportunity for libraries and archives to collaborate with scholars in defining the requirements of the new digital infrastructure -- what the National Science Foundation calls the "cyberinfrastructure." Libraries and archives are asked to redefine their roles, responsibilities and funding strategies while focusing on the needs of scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Humanists, social scientists and engineers will define and build this infrastructure to meet the needs of researchers and scholars in all disciplines. The ACLS commission's areas of emphasis will be applications like Geographic Information Systems, three-dimensional modeling of built environments, and text mining -- ones that have already begun to change the ways in which scholars interrogate primary sources. Libraries and archives are encouraged to attend public information-gathering sessions, participate in discussions, and contribute to the commission's work. The commission is especially interested in these groups' understanding of the impact of current intellectual property and privacy rights on access to information; the value of standards for information markup and searching; the need for interoperable information technology systems; and the imperative of preservation in a world of scholarly inquiry founded on an uninterrupted record of research.

Who's Hot Today? Nashville; All U.S.
Libraries

Who's Hot Today? Nashville; All U.S.
Libraries 06/24/2005 10:01 PM
Nashville, Tenn., has 600 computers in its Metro library system and waiting lines: Adding Wi-Fi is a natural for their patrons who can bring their own laptops. The system will cost just under $70,000 across the system through 50-50 federal and local money. The AP reports on an library study showing 99.6 percent of libraries connected to the Internet: Almost of those offer Internet access to their patrons. This number from the American Library Association is up from 20.9 percent in 1994, when the commercial Internet was brand-spanking new. (I founded a Web site development firm in 1994, and had a T-1 to the Net that August--when it was pretty rare.) Eighteen percent of libraries offer Wi-Fi, but a whopping 21 percent plan to offer it in the next year. Only 42 percent of libraries have high-speed connections, and often broadband is coupled with Wi-Fi: sharing a single dial-up modem over Wi-Fi isn't much of an incentive over home dial-up to library patrons. Public libraries' biggest problem is having enough computers to go around....

SSTTR Java Libraries 1.0.1

SSTTR Java Libraries 1.0.1 12/14/2003 04:07 PM
Miscellaneous Java libraries for XML, crypto, and other things.

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 AM

I'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]

Ham Radio Control Libraries

Ham Radio Control Libraries 02/16/2004 08:07 PM
Hamlib 1.2.0 released

Islamic Tools and Libraries 0.6

Islamic Tools and Libraries 0.6 08/29/2004 03:47 AM
Islamic tools and applications, including an Islam-centric library.

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.

None of which Could *Possibly* Apply to
Libraries, Too

None of which Could *Possibly* Apply to
Libraries, Too 06/09/2004 06:58 PM
The Internet Search on Mobile Race

"IDC analyst Mr Keith Wayras expects 30 million people, or 17 per cent of US mobile subscribers, to use the web on phones in 2006,while currently in Japan about 44.8 million people, or 58 per cent of internet users, access the web on their mobile phones.Internet access will be available on most of the approx 600 million mobile phones expected to be sold worldwide this year.While it is already possible to run a Google search on phones, it is not always easy with websites built for desktop computers and not small-screened devices.This article says that "Google itself said in April that if it doesn't launch products that improve Web searches on handheld devices, it will fail to win a significant share of an increasingly important part of the online market."The article goes on to analyse Microsoft,Yahoo and AOL's moves in the internet search on mobile race.
Google could change the wireless internet" [Smart Mobs]

New List of Wi-Fi Consultants for
Libraries

New List of Wi-Fi Consultants for
Libraries 06/03/2004 11:42 PM

Bill Drew has started a list of consultants on The Wireless Librarian site. Get help with your own Wi-Fi implementation or help the list grow by sending in additions.

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.

Digital Libraries Magazine

Digital Libraries Magazine 01/17/2004 10:48 PM
Digital Libraries Magazine
http://www.d lib.org/dlib/january04/01contents.html

The January, 2004 Issue of Digital Libraries Magazine is now Online.

Libraries Wired, and Reborn

Libraries Wired, and Reborn 04/21/2004 09:03 PM
Public libraries have been transformed over the last decade as Internet - connected computers have increased their traffic - and, in some cases, even their book budgets.

Robots get bookish in libraries

Robots get bookish in libraries 07/21/2004 04:21 AM
BBC Jul 21 2004 8:39AM GMT

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.
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