Drift through the music!

Here’s an interesting one: Musicovery. Give it a think: can you imagine something like this applied to a library/information browse scenario?

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Systems: III Encore

There seems to be quite a lot of discord on the SirsiD lists in the US Unicorn world regarding iLink, EPS (SirsiD’s portal frontend) and futures. A number of them have referred to something called Encore, from Innovative, which I’d not come across (http://www.iii.com/encore/main_index2.html).
Looks like Encore is not included in III’s standard OPEC but has [...]

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New breed of OPACs

Rummaging around the web – as you do – I came across a company called Endeca offering new ways of searching and presenting data in a whole range of industries. This led me to look at the NCSU catalogue and I liked what I saw. Easy searching and results presented in a way that allows [...]

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mediaWiki for subject guides

Meredith Farkas relates how she and her colleagues have used media wiki to present subject guides to their users. She makes an interesting point that students use a task-based approach rather than a general subject approach. I certainly identify with this as a perpetual student myself; whether learning about web technologies or languages.
Meredith Farkas
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