Family Man Librarian

This week I encountered a significant roadblock when trying to use OpenURL in a situation where it is a natural fit. Let me explain the scenario. A scientific researcher at the company where I work built an extensive bibliography of journal articles on a particular subject, and wants to publish that bibliography on [...]

Anyone who needs to create or maintain bibliographic references should take a close look at Zotero. It is an amazing tool and one that I have begun to use more and more, thanks to encouragement from Mark Lindner. As this blog post from Zotero mentions, I have begun to make use of Zotero’s [...]

These are my links for June 6th through June 11th:

COinS Generator - “This tool will take bibliographic metadata for a citation and produce a “COinS”, i.e. a snippet of HTML that can be placed on a webpage and processed by web tools.”
Scopus - A multidisciplinary database of citations to articles in the life, health, physical, [...]

Along with what I wrote about Apple’s new iPhone, I wanted to point out the existence of a Wired article that does a good job of articulating what I hope for and what I think might eventually be possible with a device such as the iPhone. Check out this article at www.wired.com/news/technology/gizmos/0,72477-0.html. I [...]

For the past few days I’ve been on a quick conference trip to a meeting in the Washington, D.C. area. The meeting was organized by NISO and was entitled “From Discovery to Delivery: Solutions to Put Your Content Where the Users Are.”
While there was nothing new or startlingly different about the content of the [...]

This is old news by now but I wanted to briefly mention that NASIG has transformed its Newsletter into a blog. Very nice! I can remember the days when the Newsletter was a print only publication, one of the few that I read front to back. Then for many years there was [...]

Just a quick post to mention several changes I’ve made to this blog overnight. I’ve added a link to a tag cloud in the sidebar. I’ve also added new custom icons in the sidebar for “RSS Subscribe” and “Email Subscribe.” The “Email Subscribe” button’s link replaces the link to an external service, [...]

I was happy to see an announcement today from Tim Spalding, creator/maintainer of LibraryThing, about the availability of RSS/HTML feeds. Tim’s work in developing a library community centered around a shared online catalog of user’s books is one of the standout ideas/creations of the past year. He is very responsive to user input [...]

Tagyu :: Your tags, smarter
Getting back once again to the topic of tags and tagging, about which my own personal jury is still out, I thought it worthwhile to mention a new web service called Tagyu that offers an automated method for picking out relevant tags for the content that you want to tag.? I’ve [...]

Just finished a minor tweaking/refreshing of my personal website to make it look more akin to this blog. I’ve actually been blogging since 2002 but didn’t start using blogging software ’til the last few weeks. One of the important links on my personal website is a link to my previous blog, which was [...]