eclectic librarian

Presenters: Beth Weston and Deena Acton
The National Library of Medicine spent 2007 examined the impact of content differences between print and online journals on library operations and services. They then followed up on this in 2008. In evaluating the situation, the NLM team working on this project were tasked with locating the differences between print [...]

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Presenters: Kim Armstrong, Bob Nardini, Peter McCracken, and Rick Lugg
Because this is a serials conference, Lugg provided us with a title change and enumeration to differentiate this presentation from the repeat in the afternoon. Serialists (& librarians in general) love corny inside jokes.
eBook users want to use the work; to browse, to search, and to [...]

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Presenter: Mike Kuniavsky
Thinks about how technology and people interact with each other, and how the technological side can be made more interesting or better for the user.
Ubiquitous computing was coined to describe computers that are woven into every day life to the extent that they are indistinguishable from it. The power of technology should not [...]

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When NASIG began over 20 years ago, the (then) small conference met on college campuses where (most) everyone stayed in dorm rooms, ate meals together, and socialized in the evenings after the sessions ended. Many of the long-time members missed the social aspects of the campus conferences when the organization outgrew that model and moved [...]

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Presenter: Peter McCracken
Librarians understand what OpenURL is and what it does, but not all publishers understand it that well. One of the main problems with OpenURL is making sure that the links work and take users to the content, not to mention making sure that all the links are there which should be.
One thing that [...]

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