Institutions What is a digital library? There was a discussion on diglib a while ago about what is a digital library. This was more interesting than Lorcan Dempsey Jul 18, 2004
Research ∕ Learning Institutional portals Several case studies of institutional and library portals are available. The institutional cases are especially interesting as the library increasingly Lorcan Dempsey Jul 18, 2004
Research ∕ Learning 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 Lorcan Dempsey Jul 16, 2004 1 min read
Systems Sage and firefox Tim Bray on Sage [https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/07/14/FirefoxReader], a FireFox extension which provides Lorcan Dempsey Jul 15, 2004
Misc 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/ Lorcan Dempsey Jul 14, 2004
Systems European Conference on Digital Libraries The program for ECDL 2004 [https://www.ecdl2004.org/] is now available. > ECDL 2004 is the 8th in the Lorcan Dempsey Jul 14, 2004
Institutions Buy or borrow I notice that Edinburgh University Library has a link to Blackwells Online Bookshop [https://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/services/ Lorcan Dempsey Jun 28, 2004
Systems Structured reading lists IMS has released its Resource List Interoperability Specification [https://www.imsglobal.org/rli/index.cfm]. In the future, I think, Lorcan Dempsey Jun 27, 2004
Institutions 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 Lorcan Dempsey Jun 24, 2004 1 min read
Systems 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 Lorcan Dempsey Jun 24, 2004
Institutions 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 Lorcan Dempsey Jun 22, 2004
Systems UK Web Archiving Consortium A UK Web Archiving Consortium [https://www.webarchive.org.uk/] has been established by the national libraries of the UK, Lorcan Dempsey Jun 21, 2004