Gerrit Gragert - Magister Artium der Bibliothekswissenschaft und der Informatik, Lehrbeauftragter am Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications.
Äußerst interessantes Thesenpapier über die Zukunft sog. Discovery Tools in Bibliotheken. Besonders (aber nicht nur) der Abschnitt über OPACs ist auch für Deutschland höchst relevant.
If you’ve heard the buzz about Library 2.0, but don’t quite understand how to implement it, you’ve come to the right place. The Internet is full of helpful webinars, presentations, and tutorials designed to help you take your library to the next level, and we’ve highlighted some of the most useful of these here. Read on to learn how your library can get with the times.
# Perennial favorites open source, APIs, and mobile devices given as top trends, among others
# Technology glitches during streaming video, distracting chat room discussion during panel
# Karen Coyle: Future may not involve libraries "if we don't make some extreme changes."
Nothing is more practical than a good theory. A banal statement, considering that a theory should always enable its users to easily derive the statements they need for practice.
But a theory for catalogs or cataloging? Is that really necessary? A question anyone is likely to ask who has never been confronted with the matter nor considered it with any seriousness.
Using Internet search engines, and knowing their operation is fully automated, people tend to view with skepticism all practical and theoretical effort invested in catalogs. Any good search engine, however, has to be be based on a good theory - though that one may differ quite a bit from a catalog theory.
This bibliography has been compiled by Brenda Chawner, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, as part of her Ph.D. studies. It includes announcements, journal articles, and web documents that are about open source software development in libraries. It also includes articles that describe specific open source applications used in libraries, in particular dSpace, Koha, Greenstone, and MyLibrary.
A. Genest, and L. Heller. Kooperation versus Eigenprofil? 31. Arbeits- und Fortbildungstagung der ASpB e.V., Sektion 5 im Deutschen Bibliotheksverband, 25. bis 28. September 2007 in der Technischen Universität Berlin, page 137--146. Karlsruhe, Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Spezialbibliotheken, Universitaetsverlag Karlsruhe, (2009)