Institutional portals
Several case studies of institutional and library portals are available. The
institutional cases are especially interesting as the library increasingly
Open source VLE at DCU
Moodle is an open source course management system (aka learning management
system or – in the UK – virtual learning environment). It
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Sage and firefox
Tim Bray on Sage
[https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/07/14/FirefoxReader], a FireFox
extension which provides
Swiss army knife memory stick
Mmm…. A swiss army knife with a built in USB flash drive: ThinkGeek :: Swiss
Memory USB [https://www.thinkgeek.com/
European Conference on Digital Libraries
The program for ECDL 2004 [https://www.ecdl2004.org/] is now available.
> ECDL 2004 is the 8th in the
Buy or borrow
I notice that Edinburgh University Library has a link to Blackwells Online
Bookshop [https://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/services/
Structured reading lists
IMS has released its Resource List Interoperability Specification
[https://www.imsglobal.org/rli/index.cfm]. In the future, I think,
Tranforming libraries or muddling through
This article — ARL 234: Libraries Dealing with the Future Now
[https://www.arl.org/newsltr/234/dealing.html] — discusses work
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Aaron Swartz on Google's ad policy
> It is increasingly clear that Google cannot enforce their censorship policy with
any semblance of fairness. Worse, [their editorial
Physical and virtual union catalogs
CC-Interop [https://ccinterop.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/] is a UK project looking at
aspects of the interplay between what it
UK Web Archiving Consortium
A UK Web Archiving Consortium [https://www.webarchive.org.uk/] has been
established by the national libraries of the UK,
Glossaries
In general, there seems little point in trying to define terms for use except
within some closely knit community of
