Monthly Archives: October 2008
Funnest archive ever
Today after general sessions ended I headed north to Ohio State University to the Cartoon Research Library where a group of ASIS&T visitors was given a tour by the library’s founding curator Lucy Caswell. The archive contains over 250,000 original … Continue reading
Institutional repositories, Second life , tagging, & social networks
My apologies for posting a stream of consciousness list of topics but for the moment I have a good wifi signal The second day of ASIS&T included a number of interesting presentations taht talked in broad strokes about many of … Continue reading
ASIS&T 2008 – Ohio bound
I found myself back in Ohio on Sunday, attending the American Society for Information Science & Technology 2008 conference. Columbus shares some interesting features with Cincinnatti including pro sports arenas, a winding river, impressive 20th century american architecture, and wide … Continue reading
Lita 2008 – Open Access, Open Source, & Grid Storage
Today saw some interesting presentations. In the morning I went to a panel on institutional repositories which included a presentation by Tabatha Becker on the University of Colorado’s work in publishing an Undergraduate Research Journal using an open source platform. … Continue reading
LITA 2008 – Day 1
Lita 2008 started off with a interesting set of presentations on Friday. The opening keynote by Tim Spalding on LibraryThing contained an interesting lookat the data that LibraryThing is beginning to aggregate on books. Tim suggested that the use of … Continue reading
