RLG Public Services Discussion Group at ALA
At each ALA, RLG sponsors an RLG Public Services Discussion Group. The next meeting of the group will be at ALA Midwinter in San Antonio. This time around, the discussion …
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RLG joins Web 2.0, Library 2.0
Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Talis‘ work in this area have been all the buzz on the blogosphere recently — here and here and here for example. In a small, …
Read MoreJournal of Usability Studies
Brenda Reeb, user studies goddess at the University of Rochester, posted a link to the new Journal of Usability Studies on USABILITY4LIB today. I took a quick peek at the …
Read MoreLibrary of Congress and Google partner in World Digital Library
I first read this on Boing Boing moments ago; my colleague Robin Dale first read it first though, in the (printed) Palo Alto news, and found it online at MacWorld. …
Read MoreLibrarian trading cards
It’s true, there are librarian trading cards, and you can see them in Flickr. You can also build your own. Can the museum professionals be far behind?
Read MoreGoogle gets smarter…again
I noticed something new (to me) in Google over coffee this morning. I was at a party over the weekend, and met a dog with so much personality that I …
Read MoreWatch this space: ArchiveGrid is coming to town
Archivists and researchers will be interested to know that the refashioned Archival Resources will make its debut in early 2006 as ArchiveGrid.org. RLG has long been supportive of the unique …
Read MoreClay Shirky @ Long Now, and Flickr rant
I attended Clay Shirky’s talk part of the Long Now’s Seminars on Long Term Thinking (or SALT) series. The talk was well attended (at least 200 people), and the crowd …
Read MoreBrewster profiled
Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive was profiled in Sunday’s San Jose Mercury News. The online version of the article does not include “five things to know about Brewster Kahle.” …
Read MoreNing: a playground for social applications
Ning, a new free service that helps to enable…well, the FAQ says it best. Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for …
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