I’ve just been reading a discussion on the JISC-repositories discussion list about iTunes U which launched in the UK about a year ago. The service provides a platform for video and podcasts and is now available to all UK HE and FE institutions. I’ve heard nothing about it until now. There are quite [...]
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iTunes U
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
JISC Landscape Study
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The JISC has put out a call for input in relation to Web2.0
http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/jisc-sis-landscape/
I’ve had a look at the comments left by others and there are some really interesting services that I either haven’t heard of, or that I haven’t been to explore yet, so I plan to do a bit of investigation.
QM Library chooses Endeca IAS NG search
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged search on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you will all remember, the Library has been looking for some time at web systems that will allow us to integrate the range of our search services into a single search interface – a so-called next generation search interface. We entered into a formal procurement at the end of January and have now chosen [...]
Twitter for libraries
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged micro-blogging, twitter on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Can twitter (or other micro-blogging services) be used by libraries to communicate with their users?
Have a look at this wiki article written by a MLIS student at Florida State University’s College of Information.
Phil Bradley also has some ideas about using twitter in libraries.
Drupal 6 as library cms
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CMS, Drupal, Rhythmyx, website CMS on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have abandoned Rhythmyx and have moved into experimental territory by adopting Drupal 6 as our new library csm. Rhythmyx did not meet our required standards of usability and would not have been a great platform for experimenting with new web technologies. I can’t imagine our list of contributors would have expanded if we had [...]
CMSreORG
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged website CMS on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The CMSreORG project combines two projects in one. It is a re-evaluation of our current web authoring methods with the view of adopting a Content Management System (CMS). It is also, more importantly, a re-organization (reORG) of the current website, exploring how it can be best shaped to allow our diverse user audience to [...]
Sid’s blog
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hardware on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our very own Sid has his very own blog, on which he recently explained in a simple fashion what flash and virtual memory are and how a USB can improve the performance of your PC.
http://sidlid.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-use-for-usb-stick.html
Is this why I should refrain from pulling my USB out without following the safely remove hardware procedure?
Janet Talk: Instant Collaboration and voice over IP for HE
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At UCISA conference June and I were talking over lunch one day with a sales representative from Damovo, a business communications company specialising in voice of IP services. We got onto discussing telephony systems, messaging and voice over IP. I mentioned that one of my colleague is keen to set up skype for phone calls [...]
Blogs and wikis…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogs, knowledge management, wiki on March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Discussion at a meeting earlier this week about whether something would be best communicated to Library staff via a blog, wiki or even old-fashioned email, reminded me of this post on the Ubiquitous Librarian’s blog about using Clearspace software for this very purpose. Clearspace is enterprise collaboration/knowledge management software, and incorporates blogs, wikis, [...]
dapper is the online web scraper
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a wonderful tool dapper is. This is apparently web 3.0, the webs new phase of maturity that will blossom eventually to the semantic web. It’s all about re-using open data from large and famous sites in a more structured and intelligent context. Here is a good but old article on such:
Web 3.0: When Websites [...]
