Google vs phone vs library
Light-hearted exercise where the library is pitted against Google in answering
vital questions of the day.
> Google, the world’
Sun's policy on public discourse
> Many of us at Sun are doing work that could change the world. We need to do a
better
Suber on OAI and OR
Some nice remarks by Peter Suber in his latest SOAN:
> As I read the news, both halves of this
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Decline in use of catalogs
Some interesting data from Dan Greenstein about relative use of catalog (and the
library’s physical holdings) and the newer
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RSS reader and FireFox
RSS Reader Panel [https://fls.moo.jp/moz/rssreader.html], a FireFox extension,
provides a reader nicely integrated with the
Google trademark
Wired article on Google IPO has this interesting snippet on the impact of
adoption of google into common parlance on
Libraries and Learning
Bob Martin has been emphasizing the role of libraries and museums in support of
learning. I now notice that the
House of Commons librarian
Quite a bit of discussion in the UK at the moment about the recently advertized
post of Librarian for the
Common information environment
Report in the The Guardian about a somewhat aspirational UK initiative working
to create stronger interoperability between information services across
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NYT on Gates and public libraries
The NYT is carrying an article on the impact of the Gates Foundation on public
libraries through grants for technology
OAI and Apache
> The aim of the project is to create the mod_oai Apache software module that will
expose content accessible
