We all know about Brewster Kahle and the Internet Bookmobile [I hope]. Here’s how the project is working out in India.
Category: ‘puters
the guys who run Google “get” librarians
An excerpt from that controversial Playboy interview with Sergei Brin. You’ll notice he never mentions Google Answers.
PLAYBOY: Librarians must hate Google. Will you put them out of business?
BRIN: Actually, more and more librarians love Google. They use it. They do an excellent job helping people find answers on the Internet in addition to using their book collections. Finding information still requires skill. It’s just that you can go much further now. Google is a tool for librarians just as it’s a tool for anyone who wants to use it.
OPAC PAC
You all know how much I love political activism, but is it strictly kosher for an OPAC vendor to be making partisan political statements with the links they add to content-included catalogs? Check the Hot Links section on the Lackawanna County System, for example.
library catalog tutorial from Infopeople
Infopeople has done the seemingly impossible. They have created a library catalog tutorial that works with just about any online library catalog. It’s a little generic but I found that even though my OPAC at work is pretty much nothing like the one they illustrate, people can still understand how to map from one to the other. Point your users to it, it’s really helpful.
Cites & Insights updates via Atom feed
Walt has started a little blog page to post announcements when he’s done a new issue of Cites & Insights. It includes announcements and brief tables of contents. You can subscribe to the Atom feed if that’s what deweys your decimal.