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Discovering Discovery at LITA Forum
Notes from a talk by Annette Bailey of Virginia Tech at the LITA National Forum, “Discovering Discovery.” Virginia Tech has been a Summon customer since 2010. They have leveraged Summon to change...
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How the Feed Changed the Web
Mashable published an interesting post and infographic about how the “feed” changed the way we consume information. The author notes: “The feed now dominates online content consumption, from the news...
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These are the notes I took during today’s OCLC Symposium on “The Internet of Things” at ALA Annual 2014. For tweets from the presentation, please see the Tweets at #oclciot. The presentation was by...
View ArticleTechnology Priorities for the New Library Reality
These are lightly edited notes from Sarah Houghton’s talk at ALA Annual 2014. Tweets from this presentation may be found at #alaac14. Starts off with results of a survey: ‘Why are we talking about this...
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At the recent ALA Annual Conference, I attended the OCLC Symposium on the Internet of Things, hosted by Lisa Carlucci Thomas and presented by Daniel Obodovski, co-author of The Silent Intelligence: The...
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A Year in Reading (2014)
My personal reading for 2014 has been mostly for entertainment. The list is shown in chronological order. My favorite five from the list below are noted with bold text. Arsenals of Folly: The Making of...
View ArticleIn Today’s Internet of Things, YOU Are the Thing
The Internet of Things was a hot item at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month. A vast array of Internet-enabled devices was on display, everything including the Baby Glgl smart...
View ArticleA Decade of Blogging
Do you remember May 2005? I do in some respects, but not in others. Being the parent of a six month old at the time, I have to admit a lot of non-family things are lost in a blur. But I do remember...
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TweetI did a bit better reading (and perhaps worse blogging) this year, upping my total to 26 books for the year, or one every other week. My top 5 books of the year are in bold text; interestingly,...
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Estimate PDF Views on Your Site
TweetProbably old hat to many astute RSS4Lib readers, but this was new to me, so I thought I’d share this solution to getting a reasonable minimum number of PDF downloads from your site, assuming that...
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