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October 2, 2007
Thanks to Hunter and Diane for presenting this morning. Except for Diane, it was an Ellis Reference group!
I handed out an article from last Wednesday's Wall Street Journal on a program/gadget from H-P called SmartPrint. The new version (the one reviewed) is to come out later in October, but I downloaded the current version from http://www.hp.com/go/smartwebprinting. It only works with IE (Firefox and Safari are coming). After you install it, you'll see a little starburst next to the printer icon on the toolbar. That means SmartPrint is enabled. You can easily switch to standard printing by clicking the down arrow to the right of the icon. However, with SmartPrint, webpages you print will be resized so that all text prints on one page. Sometimes I'll print something and the text is cut off to the right. SP prevents this. Neat, huh?
]]> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:26:58 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Gwen) Gwen edited New Technologies Discussion Group Researchers at the document-management company’s European R&D center announced Wednesday that they’ve developed a new type of search technology, called FactSpotter, which can handle natural human phrases, and search for related results that include synonyms and pronouns within a document.
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Gwen
Thanks to Hunter and Diane for presenting this morning. Except for Diane, it was an Ellis Reference group!
I handed out an article from last Wednesday's Wall Street Journal on a program/gadget from H-P called SmartPrint. The new version (the one reviewed) is to come out later in October, but I downloaded the current version from http://www.hp.com/go/smartwebprinting. It only works with IE (Firefox and Safari are coming). After you install it, you'll see a little starburst next to the printer icon on the toolbar. That means SmartPrint is enabled. You can easily switch to standard printing by clicking the ]]> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:26:22 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Geoff) Geoff edited New Technologies Discussion Group There's been a lot of talk about reference managers lately (EndNote, RefWorks, ProCite, etc.), but I haven't heard Zotero mentioned. It's a FREE Firefox plugin "to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources." It will automatically detect COinS in blogs and such, and is compatible with a growing number of databases. I love it. http://www.zotero.org/
An interesting summary of Lee Rainie's (Pew Internet and American Life Project) talk at this year's Computers in Libraries conference is available on the ALA TechSourceblog. He discusses Web 2.0 in relation to usage data.
See this very interesting discussion from OCLC's Lorcan Dempsey: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001379.html.
(Rachel) Now that MU has licensed EndNote and Reference Manager, they are also free, at least to students. Starting in Fall 07 both programs will be installed in every lab on campus, and it's likely that students will be using them and probably expecting them to be installed on library computer]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:19:26 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Gwen) Gwen edited New Technologies Discussion Group MicrosoftDesktopSearchSoftware
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Okay, not a new technology...but one thing I do is take my laptop on the road to faculty offices. I've recently been helping several faculty with editing EndNote/RefMan output styles. I can bring up an example on my laptop to see what a setting should be, and then we fix on the faculty member's computer. Makes the whole thing easier.
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net. Fora.tv Fora.tv has speeches and panel discussions from lecture societies, think tanks, and big book stores. ResearchChannel.org ResearchChannel.org is a "consortium of major universities that banded together to put presentations by their top researchers on public-access cable channels." Those Those videos are also on their website. The<]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:25:20 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Judy) Judy edited New Technologies Discussion Group PubSub calls itself a "matching engine," and it says that its business is "prospective" or "future" search -- searching against data that may not have appeared yet. For instance, last summer, I created a PubSub search that was still yielding results yesterday, returning information that hadn't been posted to the Web back when I started the
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Okay, not a new technology...but one thing I do is take my laptop on the road to faculty offices. I've recently been helping several faculty with editing EndNote/RefMan output styles. I can bring up an example on my laptop to see what a setting should be, and then we fix on the faculty member's computer. Makes the whole thing easier.
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Okay, not a new technology...but one thing I do is take my laptop on the road to faculty offices. I've recently been helping several faculty with editing EndNote/RefMan output styles. I can bring up an example on my laptop to see what a setting should be, and then we fix on the faculty member's computer. Makes the whole thing easier.
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Okay, not a new technology...but one thing I do is take my laptop on the road to faculty offices. I've recently been helping several faculty with editing EndNote/RefMan output styles. I can bring up an example on my laptop to see what a setting should be, and then we fix on the faculty member's computer. Makes the whole thing easier.
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Okay, not a new technology...but one thing I do is take my laptop on the road to faculty offices. I've recently been helping several faculty with editing EndNote/RefMan output styles. I can bring up an example on my laptop to see what a setting should be, and then we fix on the faculty member's computer. Makes the whole thing easier.
]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:48:55 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Gwen) Gwen edited New Technologies Discussion Group I've started talking talking with Gary Kremer (State Historical Society) who will be further talking with Carl Wingo (State Library) about initiating a Missouri Digital Library project in which we'd create map-based access tool for historical photographs of buildings, like thisoneDrakehasputtogetherforDesMoines using http://www.yourgmap.com.
The idea is, you'd click on a place on your city's street map marked with a pushpin (think frappr), and you'd see a photo of the house/business/statue etc. It seems like a really scalable project - one can start with a town for which there is an ample supply of historical photographs that can be or have been digitized, plus some available labor to get additional metadata on the buildings, historical street names & locations etc. as needed...and then maybe you start broadening the service to other places, maybe use it to solicit more recent as well as historical home photos, and so on. I think town websites (this is not for publication so I WILL spell it that way, d]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:54:46 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Gwen) Gwen edited New Technologies Discussion Group The idea is, you'd click on a place on your city's street map marked with a pushpin (think frappr), and you'd see a photo of the house/business/statue etc. It seems like a really scalable project - one can start with a town for which there is an ample supply of historical photographs that can be or have been digitized, plus some available labor to get additional metadata on the buildings, historical street names & locations etc. as needed...and then maybe you start broadening the service to other places, maybe use it to solicit more recent as well as historical home photos, and so on. I think town websites (this is not for publication so I WILL spell it that way, dammit) would be interested in linking to an "added value" map like this.
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Fora.tv has has speeches and panel discussions from lecture societies, think tanks, and big book stores. ResearchChannel.org is a "consortium of major universities that banded together to put presentations by their]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:46:00 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Gwen) Gwen edited New Technologies Discussion Group (Rachel) Now that MU has licensed EndNote and Reference Manager, they are also free, at least to students. Starting in Fall 07 both programs will be installed in every lab on campus, and it's likely that students will be using them and probably expecting them to be installed on library computers as well. I looked at Zotero a while ago and, while it does stand up well to the commercial products in its basic functions, it does not have the "cite while you write" feature that is one of the main attractions of EndNote, nor does it have the more controversial but heavily used "connection files" feature, which lets the user search databases from within EndNote. Regardint connection files - if you don't think EndNote users are attracted to a single, familiar search interface for whatever database they're searching, that makes downloading citations into EndNote much, much easier...just ask Brenda about her experience with the Life Sciences folks, who ONLY use PubMed because that's the database tha]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:37:57 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group no.email.given@example.com (Geoff) Geoff edited New Technologies Discussion Group I'm in the process of adding COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) to all my subject guides, and just noticed this COinS generator: http://generator.ocoins.info/. Nice.
There's been a lot of talk about reference managers lately (EndNote, RefWorks, ProCite, etc.), but I haven't heard Zotero mentioned. It's a FREE Firefox plugin "to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources." It will automatically detect COinS in blogs and such, and is compatible with a growing number of databases. I love it. http://www.zotero.org/
An interesting summary of Lee Rainie's (Pew Internet and American Life Project) talk at this year's Computers in Libraries conference is available on the ALA TechSourceblog. He discusses Web 2.0 in relation to usage data.
(Rachel) Now that MU has licensed EndNote and Reference Manager, they are also free, at least to students. Starting in Fall 07 both programs will be installed in every lab on campus, and it's likely that students will be using them and probably]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:29:11 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Diane Johnson) Diane Johnson edited New Technologies Discussion Group LTS does have a development server that you can play around with. Contact Michael Bland.
A new category: other things of interest:
here: http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/f/A%2BModel%2BAcademic%2BLibraries%2B2005%2Bto%2B2025.pdf http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/f/A%2BModel%2BAcademic%2BLibraries%2B2005%2Bto%2B2025.pdf
I'm in the process of adding COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) to all my subject guides, and just noticed this COinS generator: http://generator.ocoins.info/. Nice.
databases. I I love it. http://www.zotero.org/
(Rachel) Now that MU has licensed EndNote and Reference Manager, they are also free, at least to students. Starting Starting in Fall 07 both programs will be installed in every lab on campus, and it's likely that students will be using them and probably expecting them to be installed on library computers as well. I I looked at Zotero a while ago and, while it does stand up well to the comm]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:51:15 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited New Technologies Discussion Group]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:10:35 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited New Technologies Discussion Group The David Lewis paper Deb Ward sent around is quite good (it will be interesting compare this vision to the Jim Neal teleconference on May 11th). I especially liked strategy #4: "Reposition library and information tools, resources, and expertise so it is *embedded* into the teaching, learning, and research enterprises" (3). He expands on this by saying a)"libraries need to embed their resources and expertise into the systems and tools students and faculty use in the daily lives" (9), and b) "reposition in-person interactions so that they are used for the most complex and difficult interactions" (10). I've uploaded the article here: http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/f/A%2BModel%2BAcademic%2BLibraries%2B2005%2Bto%2B2025.pdf
I'm in the process of adding COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) to all my subject guides, and just noticed this COinS generator: http://generator.ocoins.info/. Nice.
It's a FREE Firefox plugin "to help you collect, manage, and cite your research]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:09:43 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Rachel) Rachel edited New Technologies Discussion Group I'm in the process of adding COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) to all my subject guides, and just noticed this COinS generator: http://generator.ocoins.info/. Nice.
There's been a lot of talk about reference managers lately (EndNote, RefWorks, ProCite, etc.), but I haven't heard Zotero mentioned. It's FREE Firefox plugin "to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources." It will automatically detect COinS in blogs and such, and is compatible with a growing number of databases. I love it. http://www.zotero.org/
(Rachel) Now that MU has licensed EndNote and Reference Manager, they are also free, at least to students. Starting in Fall 07 both programs will be installed in every lab on campus, and it's likely that students will be using them and probably expecting them to be installed on library computers as well. I looked at Zotero a while ago and, while it does stand up well to the commercial products in its basic functions, it does not have the "cite while you write"]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:46:52 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited New Technologies Discussion Group The David Lewis paper Deb Ward sent around is quite good (it will be interesting compare this vision to the Jim Neal teleconference on May 11th). I especially liked strategy #4: "Reposition library and information tools, resources, and expertise so it is *embedded* into the teaching, learning, and research enterprises" (3). He expands on this by saying a)"libraries need to embed their resources and expertise into the systems and tools students and faculty use in the daily lives" (9), and b) "reposition in-person interactions so that they are used for the most complex and difficult interactions" (10). I've uploaded the article here: http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/f/A%2BModel%2BAcademic%2BLibraries%2B2005%2Bto%2B2025.pdf
I'm in the process of adding COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) to all my subject guides, and just noticed this COinS generator: http://generator.ocoins.info/. Nice.
There's been a lot of talk about reference managers lately (EndNote, RefWorks, ProCite, etc]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:21:52 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Diane Johnson) Diane Johnson commented on New Technologies Discussion Group Hope I'm doing this right. Just ran across this Health Technology Assessment Vortal (?)which uses Google Custom Search : "The HTAi IRG is developing a new federated search application using Google that searches across all public-access web sites currently listed in the HTAi Vortal." Kind of like Rollyo & federated search.
http://www.htai.org/vortal/]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:34:43 +0000 com http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Gwen) Gwen edited New Technologies Discussion Group I find social software & many new technologies to be highly interesting--both as cool tools now and as indicators of where things are going--such potential for interactivity and convergence. And the intersection of the technologies and sociology can be fascinating... On one hand, I feel pretty savvy--I read about these things, I can use & (to some extent) create tools--it doesn't feel foreign to me. However, I also feel like a late adopter, especially to many folks younger than I am. I want to explore these tools & potential applications when I get around to it; it isn't second nature or ingrained in the way I do things. I'd heard of the 23 Things program (the incentive stuck out) but appreciated Judy's post to check it out further. I'd kind of set up an informal list of (many personal) goals for myself already like: set up an rss reader, create a feed from a blog, create a podcast, create a topical suprglu page hey Amanda, maybe you could talk about this! -Geoff to make available disparate s]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:19:39 +0000 mod http://mulibraries.pbwiki.com/New+Technologies+Discussion+Group email.hidden@example.com (Rachel) Rachel edited New Technologies Discussion Group Group New Technologies Discussion Group ! New Technologies/Novel Reference Services Discussion Group
After an interesting free-for-all this morning February 1, we decided that prior to the next meeting (in about a month) each of us would try to post the following to the New Technologies/Novel Reference Services wiki:
Things we are working on that may be of interest to the group
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=6&hid=114&sid=d7ebcb1f-4dc6-4f3a-8c45-38795f73a89e%40sessionmgr109
http://rollyo.com/grayg/company_search/
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I've started talking talking with Gary Kremer (State Historical Society) who will be further talking with Carl Wingo (State Library) about initiating a Missouri Digital Library project in which we'd create map-based access tool for historical photographs of buildings, like thisoneDrakehasputtogetherforDesMoines using http://www.yourgmap.com.
The idea is, you'd click on a place on your city's street map marke]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:17:27 +0000 mod