Terry’s Worklog

  • Hackfest 2006

    So this has been my first year attending the hackfest and my first impressions has been, pretty cool.  Hackfest, for those that weren’t able to attend or have never attended, is a social outing (my opinion) that brings together a number of folks interested in technology to address a group of common problems within libraries. …

  • Roy Tennant: The "Last Mile" Problem

    “Last Mile” Problem: Libraries are better at description than delivery We’ve rested on our past successes (library automation, conversion) Too many clicks — it takes too many clicks to get users from the search to the digital resources.  (one click to search, one click to get) Roy makes a great point.  In demonstrating how many…

  • Catching up

    Ha.  Dan called me on it yesterday after finally posting a link to some pictures from my Readex trip.  One conference behind…Ugh.  Like many, I’m in Ottawa right now hanging out with our cool neighbors to the north and some carpetbaggers from the south playing at hackfest and checking out some presentations with a very…

  • Readex 2006 photos

    So I got a quick email from someone that attended the Readex conference and they let me know that they had posted some pictures onto flickr.  So if you haven’t visited chestire, VT, here you go. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=readex   –TR

  • The library without walls

    Updated: Apparently Live writer truncated my links. I’ve fixed them. Terry Reese, Oregon State University Sorry, no picture and yes, I gave a talk at the Readex conference as well.  I thought it was fairly well received given the topic — though I think it surprised folks as well.  Lots of fun though.  Key quotes…

  • Around the world in 80 documents

    Steven Daniel, Readex Steven’s sessions have become a bit of a tradition at the Digital institute.  Steven’s presentations over the last 3 years have show some of the depth and kind of research that can be done using the Readex serial set.  Actually, I remember talking to him last year after his interesting talk on…

  • Virtual humanities lab and the evolution of online academic communities

    Vika Safrin, Brown University   Vika discussed a project that was very unfamiliar with — apparently, the Virtual Humanities Lab was a two year project supported by the NEH between 04 and 06 to create a platform for collaborative humanities research.  I’d talked with Vika about this project a little bit after her talk.  The…

  • Digital Maps and Digital Map Reference

    Ed Redmond, LC Ed talked about the current digitization program being used in the LC map reading room.  He then looked at some of the research that can now be done because of the items currently digitized. Something interesting — these are research quality scans — which the idea being that once digitized, these items…

  • Finding your niche: leveraging limited resources to build a digital program

    Mary Molinaro, University of Kentucky   Mary Molinaro discussed how the University of Kentucky Libraries is leveraging existing resources and securing new ones to build a digital program and become a leader in film-to-digital conversion.  Mary makes some very important points, the first one being that institutions must change the vocabulary in how we discuss…

  • After AACR2: Content standards for resource description and access

    Matthew Beacom, Yale RDA will be: Multinational content standard providing bibliographic description and access for a variety of media and formats collected by libraries today. Developed for use in English language environment; it can also be used in other language communities. Independence of format (i.e., like MARC21) Will support FRBR tags Enable users of library…

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