Roy Tennant's news and views on digital libraries. en-us http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309.html?nid=3565 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use November 9, 2009 http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1180050318.html?nid=3565 I've long been a fan of the writing of Meredith Farkas, as is true of many of my colleagues. She is perceptive, nuanced, and an excellent wri... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/110050211.html?nid=3565 Not long ago I wrote about information on the Internet that should go away. Sure, there's the photo of you at that party that you sincerely wish wo... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1690050169.html?nid=3565 After several months of hard work and preparation, the Library 101 video and web site debuted today to a roomful of rapt and engaged librarians at ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/70050007.html?nid=3565 In a post last week, I introduced the eScholarship redesign and refocus of mission on the publishing needs of faculty, with repository capture bein... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1060049906.html?nid=3565 This week, in honor of Open Access Week, the California Digital Library released a complete redesign of the eScholarship Repository. B... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/480049848.html?nid=3565 Whether it was the haiku I wrote to help justify my request for a Google Wave account, or the universe was just smiling on me, I entered the world... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1730049773.html?nid=3565 MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC), a carrier standard for bibliographic information used along with rules described by the Anglo American Catalogi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/710049671.html?nid=3565 While surfing the blog/twitterverse I ran across this interesting post on linked data. In case the term "linked data" catches you flat, s... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1910049591.html?nid=3565 Not long ago I complained that the better a presentation was in person, the more likely it would be useless when posted online. This is because the... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1570049557.html?nid=3565 When I talk about digitization, I often mention how inexpensive and easy it can be to digitize these days. A low-to-mid-range consumer camera can c... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1890049389.html?nid=3565 Ithaka has just released a new report: “What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization” that analyzes which... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/920049292.html?nid=3565 In my last post, "The Next-Gen E-Book Reader" I made it clear that I thought the rumored tablet computers from Apple and Microsoft were p... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/640049264.html?nid=3565 Apple Computer is widely believed to be near to announcing a tablet computer. Meanwhile, Microsoft has not be sitting on its hands. As reported by ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/510049051.html?nid=3565 I often worry about important and/or useful information on the Internet disappearing, like many of my colleagues. Therefore, when I run into situat... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1050048905.html?nid=3565 A shot across the bow of the open source software community has come from an unexpected source -- a company that has championed the open source eth... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1070048907.html?nid=3565 That's right, Prince Edward Island is the host of the Access Conference (September 30-October 3), long one of my favorite technology conferences of... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1100048710.html?nid=3565 Recently an institution that I respect released some open source software. Being interested, I immediately downloaded it and started checking it ou... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/950048495.html?nid=3565 Many of the best PowerPoint (or Keynote, or whatever) presentations are virtually devoid of words. Slides usually consist an image or a graphic, an... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/990048499.html?nid=3565 What if I told you that for under $8,000 you could have 67 Terabytes of storage? Would you call me crazy? If you were to price today's storage solu... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/290048229.html?nid=3565 After going a full six weeks without reading my blog aggregator, I have to wonder what's up. What's up, I can tell you, is that if it isn't hot wit... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1470048347.html?nid=3565 You may not think that a web site needs something akin to a living will, but many do -- or more accurately, will. These are sites that are basicall... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/300048230.html?nid=3565 As the New York Times has reported, Wikipedia will now require that edits on pages of living persons be first approved by an experienced volunteer ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/370048237.html?nid=3565 As seen in Engadget today, and reported by Macworld, Sony is moving to integrate access to library purchased ebook licenses. From Macworld: On Tue... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1650048165.html?nid=3565 It came to my attention lately (from my colleague Lorcan Dempsey) that Google is creating book covers from images found within public domain books ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1110048111.html?nid=3565 Large amounts of data require appropriate visualization for comprehension. Edward Tufte in his books and presentations has tried to make that point...