England Libraries May All Get Wi-Fi
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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 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 ...
PlanetaMessenger.org Libraries
PlanetaMessenger.org Libraries
11/01/2003 10:43 AMJMML 0.4 released
slack-get 0.3 (Libraries)
slack-get 0.3 (Libraries)
05/26/2004 10:49 PMA tool like 'apt-get' for Slackware.
YSL Coding Libraries
YSL Coding Libraries
12/11/2003 06:12 PMTransfer of CVS repository in progress
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
Echidna Libraries
Echidna Libraries
07/15/2004 07:16 AMAdded 8Bit Targa Support
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]
It’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.
NB Parser Libraries
NB Parser Libraries
06/11/2004 09:55 AMProject started
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:
...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]
'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.
"http://p2p.libraries.psu.edu/"
"http://p2p.libraries.psu.edu/"
11/18/2003 03:32 AM2D 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?
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.
slack-get 0.2 (Libraries)
slack-get 0.2 (Libraries)
05/04/2004 04:41 PMA tool like 'apt-get' for Slackware.
Digital Libraries Magazine
Digital Libraries Magazine
01/17/2004 10:48 PMDigital Libraries Magazine http://www.d
lib.org/dlib/january04/01contents.htmlThe January,
2004 Issue of Digital Libraries Magazine is now Online.
CyberInfrastructure Needs Libraries and
Archives
CyberInfrastructure Needs Libraries and
Archives
07/12/2004 06:00 AMCyberInfrastructure Needs Libraries and Archiveshttp://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.
Libraries and the Coming Age of Video
Libraries and the Coming Age of Video
01/22/2004 03:24 AMOur Everyday, Everywhere Exposure to Video
"Digital video is starting to have profound implications for the
way humans absorb information, interact and communicate.
Are we entering a post-literate society? How does the presence of
screens with moving images just about everywhere affect our behavior?
Is Big Brother watching us, or does it just feel that way?...
Consider, however, Deja View's Camwear, to my mind the 'killer app'
of CES this year. A tiny camera clips onto your glasses, hat or shirt
pocket. It's attached by a thin cord (which you can run inside your
shirt or top) to a camcorder that, because it uses flash storage and
has no display, is about the size and weight of a deck of cards.
Here's the concept: Camwear records everything you do, but doesn't
store it anywhere until you tell it to, and then only in 30-second
clips (16 on an included 64 megabyte memory card, but it accepts up to
a 512 MB card).
But the key is this: You get to decide after the fact if
something's worth keeping — and then capture it — rather
than recording everything and having to go back and view and edit
hours of video.
For longer clips you can 'daisy-chain' 30-second segments (although
you'll miss about 1.5 seconds of action in between). Battery life is
around four hours. It uses state-of-the-art MPEG-4 formatting and
works with a PC, Mac, TV and related display devices.
Beyond the obvious 'America's Funniest Home Videos' application,
Camwear has a host of intriguing uses. Consider the ATM that doesn't
give you your cash. Or the salesperson who changes the deal on you. Or
playing back the earthquake or car crash to the insurance agent. It's
your life as Reality TV....
Then there's our quality of life and self-concept as human beings.
If the camera is always on us and our surroundings, what does that do
to our sense of privacy, security and individuality?...." [Seattle Times, via JD's New Media Musings]
On the one hand, that's a pretty scary world to think about living
in. On the other hand, I really-really-really want one of these
things! Parents know how many times you wish you had a video recorder
handy when the kids say something particularly funny or just work
their kid-like charm.
I've mentioned here before that libraries need to start consider
cameraphones in their policies, and this opens a whole new can of
worms to the mix. It's not that cameraphones in and of themselves are
so bad, and you certainly can't ban them. They're not terribly
unique -- anyone could walk into your library with a 35mm camera
tomorrow and start snapping pictures -- but their approaching
ubiquity brings with them new issues.
However libraries have a myriad of policies governing appropriate
behavior in these very public places, many of which are designed to
maintain patron privacy. One of these days, someone is going to walk
into a library and be obvious about taking pictures of people with
their phone, even uploading them to the internet on the spot. It's
better to be proactive and discuss how to handle this type of
situation when it comes up, rather than have your surprised staff be
reactive and make a bad situation worse.
And hey, it's better to talk about this stuff now, before everyone
has a Deja View Camwear.
Enlightenment Foundation Libraries
Enlightenment Foundation Libraries
08/02/2004 05:18 PMWebl0gs: Do They Belong in Libraries?
Webl0gs: Do They Belong in Libraries?
08/01/2004 06:44 AMWeblogs: Do They Belong in Libraries?htt
p://www.ariadne.ac.uk/area-dna-155ue40/public-libraries/Penny Garrod takes a look at weblogs and weblogging
activities in libraries and considers some of the ways they can be
used to support public library users.
Interactional Digital Libraries
Interactional Digital Libraries
06/12/2002 02:19 PMIntroduction to a special issue on Interactivity in Digital Libraries
Reuniting iPhoto Libraries
Reuniting iPhoto Libraries
01/17/2004 10:43 PMLibraries Wired, and Reborn
Libraries Wired, and Reborn
04/21/2004 09:03 PMPublic 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 AMBBC Jul 21 2004 8:39AM GMT
Libraries and culture, from a trench
Libraries and culture, from a trench
07/02/2004 01:28 PMToday (July 1, 2004) marks a new chapter for many libraries across the
US of A. Today is the first day of mandatory Internet filtering, if
your library accepts federal telecommunications funds. Mine does.
Libraries try to fit into a Google world
Libraries try to fit into a Google world
06/21/2004 09:16 AMSource: News.com - Librarians have increasingly seen people use online
search sites not to supplement research libraries but to replace
them....
Anarchists, Libraries and Freedom
Anarchists, Libraries and Freedom
05/17/2004 08:50 PMSiva 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.
Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator
Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator
05/24/2004 01:41 AMTV 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.
Advice for Libraries from My Aggregator
Advice for Libraries from My Aggregator
04/29/2004 11:11 PMPC Mag Says
Death to 802.11b (Almost)
"PC Magazine rounds up several
802.11g routers, and says they're cheap enough, they're good enough:
802.11b no longer enjoys a large enough (or any) price differential
for quality Wi-Fi gateways that include WPA encryption support, PC Mag
says. So while you can still find 802.11b devices on the market, they
recommend new gear have 802.11g built in...." [Wi-Fi Networking
News]
Lesson: Make sure you buy 802.11g for your
library.
Making
CD-R's Last
"From Doug
Kaye I learned of an interesting
article on how long CD-R's will last and things you can do to
increase or decrease that time. I've always just popped down to
Staples and bought the cheapest disks I could find. For some of my
uses (the latest Suse distro, for example) that's fine. But this
article makes the point that if you're using the disk to archive
important material, you need to be more careful. The article contains
information on how to select good media and media that's appropriate
for the drive that you'll be recording on. This may be especially
important for organizations building large collections of CD-R's that
they need to keep to meet regulatory or other business requirements."
[Windley's Enterprise Computing
Weblog]
Lesson: If your library is using CD-Rs for
backups, archiving, or preservation, pick the right ones!
SSTTR Java Libraries 1.1
SSTTR Java Libraries 1.1
05/09/2004 04:42 AMMiscellaneous Java libraries for XML, crypto, and other things.
Forcing SQL Performance Libraries into
WMI
Forcing SQL Performance Libraries into
WMI
06/03/2004 03:15 PMBuilding 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.
New List of Wi-Fi Consultants for
Libraries
New List of Wi-Fi Consultants for
Libraries
06/03/2004 11:42 PMBill 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.
Ham Radio Control Libraries
Ham Radio Control Libraries
02/16/2004 08:07 PMHamlib 1.2.0 released
None of which Could *Possibly* Apply to
Libraries, Too
None of which Could *Possibly* Apply to
Libraries, Too
06/09/2004 06:58 PMThe 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]
BBC NEWS | UK | 'UK libraries out of use
by 2020'
BBC NEWS | UK | 'UK libraries out of use
by 2020'
04/28/2004 11:04 PMdie britischen Bibliotheken im Jahre 2020 unbenutzt seien .. 'UK
libraries out of use by 2020' .. failing users ..
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