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1 Jan 2008

Open Access rules for government information will expand.



Stephen's Lighthouse: 30 Library Technology Predictions for 2008
.."The DRM wars are just beginning. Open Access rules for government information will expand. The RIAA will suffer loss of financial strength (especially after strongman Valenti's passing) as members rebel over the high cost of RIAA dues and lawsuits against tweens and their own shrinking margins. Suing customers is rarely a good strategy"..

Quintura

Dapper



Dapper: The Data Mapper
Easily provide new means for people to access your content (such as RSS).

Establish an Institutional Repository for Your Organization



Carpe Diem: Establish an Institutional Repository for Your Organization | LLRX.com
..Institutional repositories can useful for academic libraries as well as law firm, court and corporate libraries. Depending upon the type of library that you are in, rationales for initiating an institutional repository may differ. Since reputation rankings are a major concern in academia, academic librarians will likely be particularly interested in a repository's potential for increasing exposure of its faculty scholarship. Court, law firm and corporate librarians may be more interested in the archival functions of an institutional repository..

LIS Future: A Library Mentor and Leadership Development Wiki.



LIS Future:A Library Mentor and Leadership Development Wiki - LIS Future
..Wiki is designed to be a collective resource for library mentoring and library leadership ideas, programs, and tools for current and aspiring directors or department heads as well as for students and new librarians preparing for leadership positions..

Mr Bean - Library

A Video showing Mr. Bean in Library as expected.

31 Dec 2007

Pageflakes for teaching



How to use RSS for teaching
.."Pageflakes has customized their platform so that it can be of practical use for teachers and students. It seems that Pageflakes site have been used by teachers to interact on-line with their students"..

27 Dec 2007

DAF v2.0



DAFWiki
DAF v2.0 provides all the necessary tools required to manage the whole process of a digitization workflow, including its various Phases, User management, file movement and archiving. It provides the flexibility to manage multiple simultaneous projects with a diversity of materials, covering books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, unbound materials, audio, video, and slides.

GMail security failure



WARNING: Google’s GMail security failure leaves my business sabotaged :: David Airey :: Graphic and Logo Designer
.."What if you also discovered that this was happening because of a Google security infection that can affect every GMail user on the planet?"..

kwout


kwout - A way to quote
"kwout" is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map.

25 Dec 2007

The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2007

How to Improve Your Skills at Office Politics

Computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents



Prince: What's New
Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents.
Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG.
Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS.

Evidence-based Reviews and Databases: Are They Worth the Effort?



Evidence-based Reviews and Databases: Are They Worth the Effort? Developing Evidence Summaries for Emergency Medicine -- Wyer and Rowe 14 (11): 960 -- Academic Emergency Medicine

.."A broad range of relevant evidence-based resources exists within and outside of EM that collates and summarizes clinical evidence pertaining to many practice questions. Such resources may or may not embrace the equivalent of health care recommendations, and their relationship to clinical decision-making may be complex. A trade-off exists between synthesis quality and ease of practitioner access and use. Keeping all such resources current and valid is a major challenge. Although observational evidence suggests that dynamic interactivity and information retrieval technology may enhance practitioner utilization of these evidence resources, little evidence exists supporting the absolute or comparative effectiveness of different kinds of resources and databases in enhancing evidence uptake or changing clinician behavior"..