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Libraries, archives and museums today all have the common responsibility of managing digital information. Whether its born or reborn digital stuff, seeing it through its life cycle involves capturing, naming, …
Read MoreIndoor plumbing. Co-ed housing arrangements. Vending machines. Internet access. Music downloading and file swapping. What are considered the “basics” for American college undergrads are being redefined yet again. On Thursday, …
Read MoreOver the last couple of years, I’ve had various experiences of interacting with the people from the other side of the fence – they’re usually called vendors, manufacturers, or “the …
Read MoreYou knew it was coming. Google Blog Search. Here’s a prepopulated search, if you can’t think of your own. The advanced search is pretty interesting, and takes advantage of some …
Read MoreThe receipt of the following haiku was sufficiently serendipitous, satisfying and apt that I want to share it. a blonde girl, wearing a pink skirt, on a blue bike, willed …
Read MoreThis isn’t brand-new anymore (it got published on August 31st), but it’s still funny – the Onion headlines “Google Announces Plan to Destroy All Information It Can’t Index.” “Our users …
Read MoreAs a “friend of UCAI,” I was recently informed that the project to create a Union Catalog of Art Images won’t continue past its research and development stage to spawn …
Read MoreI very recently returned from attending the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in New Orleans feeling very happy about seeing colleagues, contributing to the profession, learning about some great …
Read MoreSometimes a technology is just a technology until you have had that magical experience of basking in the rays of the light bulb which just flicked on over your head. …
Read MoreI returned from the Society of American Archivists annual meeting on Saturday – the meeting had not yet concluded, but I had a date with destiny (my high school reunion, …
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