Google It
Steven Cohen objects to libraries’ dependence on Google. Leaving aside the fact that Googling “Library 2.0″ (the example in Steven’s posting) gives you excellent coverage in the first five hits, I...
View ArticleLucene/Solr-based OPAC replacements
You can’t throw an exception these days without hitting a developer working on a Lucene-based OPAC. Casey Durfee‘s doing it, and will be presenting it at the Code4Lib conference under the provocative...
View ArticlePosting XML from Ant
Update 2011-09-16: a better solution now is the Missing Link http task, which provides a one-stop full-featured http implementation for Ant. Erik Hatcher, Steve Loughran and Thorsten Scherler on the...
View ArticleGoogle and the Digital Border
Here’s something I had been waiting for a chance to quantify. Dian Schaffhauser writes: Type “sonoma” and “mission” into books.google.com and choose “Full view” to eliminate those books that haven’t...
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