Category: ‘puters

National Library Week starts tomorrow. Gale is making 24 of its databases free for the whole week.

Another terribly useful library blog: RFID in libraries.

Koha, the free Open Source library system just released their 2.0 version complete with a fully templated web interface and full integration with MARC. Take a test drive and tell me it isn’t better looking and easier to use than whatever you are currently overpaying your vendors for. [catalogablog]

Aaron talks some more about good and bad parts to using IM at the library. I think I like using IM [even for work stuff] for some of the reasons other people hate it: I can carry on multiple conversations at once, I can make communication even shorter [no “Hi, this is Jessamyn, how are you…” and I have both my ears free. The phone seems to use up talking and listening for me, whereas reading and typing seem like more of the same input/output mechanism.

The Vatican Library says that tagging their materials with RFID chips will cut the amount of time they need to close for inventory from a month to half a day.