Elizabeth Thomsen › Comments

Dave Pattern's presentation on "exploiting usage data in an academic library" -- how the University of Huddersfield (England) uses circulation data to power book recommendation services and more - Elizabeth Thomsen

Dan Kennedy's presentation for the NMRLS annual meeting, November 12, 2009 - Elizabeth Thomsen

Great article about data visualization with some beautiful examples - Elizabeth Thomsen

Hayward Public Library..." is about to test a Netflix-like model in which library users can borrow three items at a tiHayward Public Libraryme for $2.99 a month, five items for $4.99 a month, or up to ten for $8.99 month, with no late fees." - Elizabeth Thomsen

Some newspapers (including the Salem News) are reaching out to readers to learn more about ways to preserve their credibility online. - Elizabeth Thomsen

Publishers Weekly, 11/2/2009 - Elizabeth Thomsen

"Apple's iPhone is quickly becoming the ebook reader of choice for many, and could steal market share from Amazon's Kindle, according to a report from market research firm Flurry." - Elizabeth Thomsen

Amazon Editors pick the Best Books of 2009 - Elizabeth Thomsen

Electric Literature Magazine Offers Fiction in New Media - Elizabeth Thomsen

Jason Zou; Guoying (Grace) Liu, "The Evergreen Open Source ILS is a free, open source library automation system developed and in use by Georgia Library.s Public Information Network for Electronic Services. Evergreen has attracted world-wide interest since its introduction in 2006. Since Evergreen was originally developed in the United States, its best supports are in English. For libraries with Chinese collections, Chinese localization is a key project for its promotion to libraries. We have developed a Chinese version, enabling Evergreen to support Chinese in either English or Chinese dominated environments. Discover the Chinese version of Evergreen along with various multilingual issues related MARC standards, encoding, indexing, searching, and sorting especially associated with Chinese language." The session presentation is available as a PDF, and is a good overview of issues of displaying, indexing and sorting Chinese in an Evergreen library catalog - Elizabeth Thomsen

Blog post about how the cover art on Victor Lodato's debut novel was changes between the ARC (advanced readers copy) and the final publication. - Elizabeth Thomsen

This post from Laura Scott's PingVision blog uses Drupal as an example, but is a good overview of how and why open source projects work, and the importance of keeping code current and open. - Elizabeth Thomsen

"Wal-Mart starts pricing war with Amazon over hardcover book sales. Wal-Mart won't say it has anything to do with the Kindle, but that might not be totally accurate." - Elizabeth Thomsen

Overview of ebooks in libraries, including viewpoints of patrons, librarians and publishers (and a quote from Boston PL's Michael Colford.) - Elizabeth Thomsen

October 17 is Home Movie Day, a worldwide celebration of home movies. The Harvard Film Archive is screening home movies from 1-4 PM, with film archivists on hand to discuss film preservation. - Elizabeth Thomsen

Evergreen is the database used by Evergreen - Elizabeth Thomsen

CNET MP3 editor Donald Bell rounds up a selection of the most suitable MP3 players for audio books. - Elizabeth Thomsen

"Davol moved to Boston’s Chinatown four years ago with her two children and husband Sam, who is also an artist and musician. As residents here they noticed something was missing: a library. In record time they pulled together a daring, community-driven project called the Chinatown Storefront Library." - Elizabeth Thomsen

"Why Email No Longer Rules…And what that means for the way we communicate" - Elizabeth Thomsen

A gallery of some of my favorite diner sign photos taken by my fellow Fliickr members - Elizabeth Thomsen

"It looks like Amazon's timing is spot on. The online bookseller's lower $259 price for the Kindle 2, along with several other factors, will help boost sales of eBook readers significantly for 2009, according to a new study by Forrester Research." - Elizabeth Thomsen

It's not just newspapers that are folding -- magazines are vulnerable as well, including Gourmet, which dates back to 1940 - Elizabeth Thomsen

"Author Meg Cabot on why the Betsy-Tacy books give today's teen lit a run for its money" - Elizabeth Thomsen

"In February, O'Reilly, the innovative computer book and online media publisher, launched a "mook," which combines the visual appeal of a magazine with the durability (content- and binding-wise) of a book." - Elizabeth Thomsen

"Publishers are looking to “vooks,” which intersperse videos in electronic text that can be read and viewed online." - Elizabeth Thomsen

I am interested in this. - Elizabeth Thomsen

As ebooks become more mainstream, will the Americans with Disabilities Act be interpreted to require that publishers make an electronic versions available for all print titles? Eric Hellman believes that day is coming. - Elizabeth Thomsen

"..analyzes which types of journals can be withdrawn responsibly today and how that set of materials can be expanded to allow libraries the maximum possible flexibility and savings in the future." - Elizabeth Thomsen

First in a series of blog posts showing examples of applications using their APIs - Elizabeth Thomsen

Matt Asay explains why the pragmatic approach of open source is better than the rigid approach of free software advocates. - Elizabeth Thomsen