The tablet market, began with the introduction of the original iPad, and in just two years has grown to count nearly one out of every five adults in the US as a consumer.
March 10, 2012
Open Access and Open Data Finally Getting Public Attention
Complaints over the cost of academic journals have long been a trope that repeats at library conferences with no denouement, but there are new signs that might be changing.
January 1, 2012
Happy New Scriblio!
The most recently released, stable version of Scriblio is marked 2.9-r1 and was last updated in June 2010. You can be forgiven for thinking development had ceased in the interim. Today, however, I’m proud to introduce a completely new Scriblio, re-written from the ground up to take advantage of the latest features of WordPress and eliminate the mistakes [...]
December 14, 2011
Web Strategy Discussion Starter
What follows is the text of a document I prepared to start and shape discussion about the future of the university website at my former place of work. The PDF version is what I actually presented, though in both instances I’ve redacted three types of information: the name of the institution (many already know, but [...]
December 12, 2011
What Content Should a University Website Include?
I no longer have a dog in this race, but in cleaning up my hard drive of old files I’ve run across a few items of note. For example, the above illustration I once used to describe the different content, audiences, and uses of a university website. Current students, prospective students, their family, faculty, employees, [...]
August 28, 2011
Search The Sears And Roebuck Catalog
You’d think the Sears Archives would offer an online search of their historical catalogs, but the best you’ll find is a list of libraries holding the microfilms. Ancestry.com offers an online search, but only to paying members. I’m looking into this because I was looking for historical trends in consumer products and thought the catalog [...]
February 28, 2011
eBook User’s Bill of Rights
It’s easy to see the eBook User’s Bill of Rights as a sign of the growing rift between libraries and content producers. Easy if you’re me, anyway. It connects very conveniently with Richard Stallman’s open letter to the Boston Public Library decrying what he summarizes as their complicity with DRM and abdication of their responsibilities [...]
October 10, 2010
Things Learned About The Gap Inc. Corporate Archives
If a customer saw it, or if it was shared with employees, I want some version of it in our archive. –Rochelle McCune, Gap corporate archivist Rochelle took a few of us on a tour of the Gap Inc archives, a rather different archive than I’m familiar with.
October 10, 2010
Things Learned About Natural Language Processing at THATcamp Bay Area
The first session I joined at THATcamp was Aditi Muralidharan‘s text mining boot camp, and the topic seemed to set my agenda for the rest of the event (though I wish Aditi had also hosted her proposed data visualization session). Aditi’s blog: mininghumanities.com. If I understood correctly, much of Aditi’s presentation and experience is based on the [...]
April 1, 2010
College Students Use, Love, Are Aware Of The Limitations Of Wikipedia
How Today’s College Students Use Wikipedia For Course-Related Research: Overall, college students use Wikipedia. But, they do so knowing its limitation. They use Wikipedia just as most of us do — because it is a quick way to get started and it has some, but not deep, credibility. 52% of respondents use Wikipedia frequently or [...]
February 27, 2010
Thank you – got it working with that simple tweak.
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