A little ATCQ reference…Tim Spalding has just begun talking about some of the social information content within Library Thing…They even make room for user-submitted covers…Tim Spalding’s Author Gallery. All publicly available or permission granted. Spalding views Library Thing as a wikipedia like catalog—all user generated content can be changed by users — and thinks within five years we’ll see an open source catalog alternative to OCLC.
Godmar and Annette have been talking about scalabilty and modularity…Nicole mentioned a book called Design Rules: The Power of Modularity by Brown and Clark..I just used PC’s test edition to have the book held at my library….Lunch time!
IMLS has awarded Annette and Godmar a National Leadership Grant to support the development of LibX over the next two years….They will be making an Edition builder interface so that libraries can build their own editions. Check this…Virginia Tech is still only using IE. Annette & Godmar plan to build a plug-in for IE..They will also be looking at usability with this grant…
Godmar is discussing the functionality of the LibX plugin and OpenURL technology…applause when he dragged the title of an article from a bibiliography on a pdf document to Google Scholar and the window opened up to the new source. Discussing “cues” now…
I’m at our NEASIST program today…SOLD OUT!! Annette Bailey is up now talking about LibX. LibX actually came about when she was interviewing for jobs last year. Bailey wanted to have something cool and useful to wow prospective employers. Annette and Godmar’s initial conversations included the LibX tool’s potential as a “virtual librarian.” She did this for an INTERVIEW…Follow today’s discussion here or on NEASIST’s event blog.
