Archive for May, 2006

ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Virtual Conference-Daniel Greenstein

Daniel Greenstein Experience comes from Open Content Alliance (content partners like UC, Internet Archive; tech partners like HP Labs, Yahoo, etc.; funders). Interesting notes from talk: Melvyl (UC library catalog) has three recommender systems in place (a "more like this" feature, recs produced by an algorithm run on their circ data, and recs from Amazon) [...]

ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Virtual Conference-Blogging in Academic Libraries

Susan Herzog of BlogBib and Susan's Blog gave a presentation on blogging in academic libraries. At the beginning of the session she asked a series of questions of the participants: less than half of the people in the session read blogs, about a quarter had their own blogs, and strangely enough, even fewer people had [...]

IDEO and innovation, Part 1

I've kept Tom Kelley's The Art of Innovation out from the library long past the time I sat down and inhaled it in one weekend but now that I have to give it back and that I've just started his second book, The Ten Faces of Innovation, I figure I should sum up, compare and [...]