A little more than two years after I realized how (really) bad the problem was and about 18 months after I prototyped my solution, our new library website, catalog, and knowledgebase launched last week — just in time for the fall semester opening.
It’s all built on Scriblio, includes a very simple new books list that [...]

Posted September 6, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: lamson library, launch, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, plymouth state university, scriblio, website, wpopac. 4 Comments.

Our CIO is asking whether or not Plymouth should get involved with blogs. Not to be overly academic, but I think we should define our terms.

Despite all the talk, “blogs” are a content agnostic technology being used to support all manner of online activities.

What you’re really asking is instead: what kind of content do we want to put online, and who do we want to let do it?

Posted September 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: academia, academic blogs, blogging, blogs, class blogs, examples, faculty blogs, fear, plymouth state university, policy, psu, student blogs. 6 Comments.

WPopac, a project I started on my nights and weekends, is now officially one of my day-job projects too.
We’ve been using our WPopac-based catalog as a prototype since February 2006, but the change not only allocates a portion of my work time specifically to the development of the project, but also reflects the library’s decision [...]

Posted July 23, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalog, news, official, online catalog, opac, plymouth state university, wpopac. 10 Comments.

John Martin was kind enough to lead a session on spam management Tuesday (November 8th). Here was the description:
Spam is annoying and often offensive, but it’s a fact of life for all of us. John Martin will lead a discussion about how we can limit the amount of spam we see using tools running on [...]

Posted November 10, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: battle against spam, email addresses, john martin, junk mail, outlook, phishing, plymouth state university, psu, spam, spam management, spam management tools, tech tuesdays, tools, war against spam. Be the first one.

A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, does some pretty interesting things that libraries should be aware of. First, any library considering a metasearch product should look at what can be done for free, and second, libraries should take a look at the OpenSearch technology that drives it.
So now, when searching for Harry Potter, you’ll also [...]

Posted October 21, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: a9, lamson library, metasearch, michigan state university, opensearch, plymouth state university, ryan eby, search engine, search engines, search technology, seattle public library, university, web search, websearch, xslt. Be the first one.