In David Lodge’s 1984 novel, Small World, a character remarks that literary analysis of Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot “would just lend itself nicely to computerization….All you’d have to do would be to put the texts on to tape and you could get the computer to list every word, phrase and syntactical construction that the two [...]
The Bibliographic Control Working Group held its third and final public meeting on the future of bibliographic control July 9 at the Library of Congress, focusing on “The Economics and Organization of Bibliographic Data.” The conclusion of the meetings will come in a report issued in November. No dramatic changes were issued from this meeting, [...]
At the ALA Top Tech Trends Panel, panelists including Marshall Breeding, Roy Tennant, Karen Coombs, and John Blyberg discussed RFID, open source adoption in libraries, and the importance of privacy. Marshall Breeding, director for innovative technologies and research at Vanderbilt University Libraries (TN), started the Top Tech Trends panel by referencing his LJ Automation Marketplace [...]
Working Code Wins Responding to increasing consolidation in the ILS market, library developers demonstrated alternatives and supplements to library software at the second annual code4lib conference in Athens, GA, February 27-March 2, 2007. With 140 registered attendees from many states and several countries, including Canada and the United Kingdom, the conference was a hot destination [...]
This is the second episode of the Open Libraries podcast, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to talk to some of the authors of the Winter netConnect supplement, entitled Digitize This! The issue covers how libraries can start to digitize their unique collections. K. Matthew Dames and Jil Hurst-Wahl wrote an article about [...]
Evergreen, the open source ILS system in use by the Georgia PINES libraries, now has a couple of support options. The developers behind the system have launched Equinox Software, modestly billed as “The Future of Library Automation.” The company consists of members of the Evergreen development team as well as the Georgia Assistant State Librarian, [...]
Casey Bisson, information architect at Plymouth State University, was presented with a $50,000 Mellon award for Technology Collaboration by Tim Berners-Lee at the Coalition for Networked Information meeting in Washington DC December 4. His project, WP-OPAC, is seen as the first step for allowing library catalogs to integrate with WordPress, a popular open-source content management [...]
Making the link from a statewide project to something more: LibLime is one option for libraries outside Georgia interested in Evergreen. Joshua Ferraro, LibLime president, said they provide “hosting, data migration, installation, training, and technical support” to libraries looking to switch to Evergreen. LibLime was retained by the PINES project during development to provide Quality [...]
“Shift Happens” Preservation, entertainment in the library, and integrating Library 2.0 into a Web 2.0 world dominated the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum in Nashville, TN, October 26-29, 2006. With 378 registered attendees from 43 states and several countries, including Sweden and Trinidad, attendance held steady with previous years, though the Internet [...]
In yet another crowded ballroom, the men (and woman) of LITA prognosticated on the future of libraries and technology. Walt Crawford moderated the panel and spoke in absentia for Sarah Houghton. Her trends were: Returning power to content owners An OCLC ILS with RedLightGreen as the front-end Outreach online Karen Schneider listed four: Faceted Navigation, [...]
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Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
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Powazek, Derek. Design for community : the art of connecting real people in virtual places. Indianapolis Ind.: New Riders, 2002.
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