E-lib 0.1.2 released on 26th Oct 2005

e-lib is a simple library management software for GNU/Linux built using Python+Postgres+Qt+Apache. Suiting the Engineering Profession, we can keep/manage records of books, periodicals, articles, funds as well as various other academic activities/events.

PMB: Opensource Application ILS

Cataloguing:




OPAC




Acquisition :

Gautier writes: "PMB is a french ILS project, based on PHP/MySQL, which runs under Windows, Linux, MacOS X. Developed in french, the project has a very reactive users community. Although PMB supports an easy translation, there are still parts which remain to translate. (If you want to help, be welcome :-) ) A demo is available at http://pmb.biblio.free.fr."

PMB: Administrator Guide: http://www.sigb.net/doc/beta-english/html-admin/


Minimum data to launch PMB


In order to launch PMB, the file minimum.sql must have been loaded in the database at the least; this file defines:

a user: the super-user, this is the PMB administrator. This account cannot be deleted in the interface. It always has access privileges on all PMB functions.

a set of parameters : these are settings needed for the proper functioning of the application


"OPEN YOUR MIND!SELECTING AND IMPLEMENTING AN INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM: THE OPEN-SOURCE OPPORTUNITY"

UNESCO Launches New Libraries Portal

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has created a Libraries Portal to enhance access to information related to library resources available on the World Wide Web as well as to issues affecting librarianship. The site provides links to the websites of libraries and information centres, library associations, and on-line resources around the world. It also provides news about upcoming conferences and training opportunities. Users can add or modify links; librarians are invited to participate by providing information on activities, news and content which they wish to share with others. The portal can also be searched by keyword."

portal: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/

Open Source : New IBM Open Source site

Let us help you innovate with Open-Source and private-source software leveraging best of breed for total solutions. IBM's extensive software, hardware, and services portfolio, as well over 600 developers working with the community on over 100 open source projects are here to serve you.

IBM has combed the Web to present you with a list of Open Source links to get you the information you need, fast.

	apache Geronimo project
	aperi project
	Blade.org
	developerWorks Open Source zone
	Eclipse
	Globus alliance
	IBM Cloudscape
	IBM DB2 Express-C
	IBM Rational
	IBM software for Linux
	IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
	IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
	IBM Workplace
	Integrated Stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise
	Linux at IBM
	Power.org

WIN-SA making knowledge work

Explaining Knowledge Management #2

Explaining Knowledge Management #1

On PocketKnowledge with Katie Delahunty

PocketKnowledge is an on-line digital archive that allows users to store and retrieve their own personally-authored materials. It also allows users to post comments about all materials within the archive. In addition, PocketKnowledge is home to the Teachers College, Columbia University Gottesman Libraries Archive-an archive containing documents written by scholars such as Edward Thorndike, Paul Monroe and Maxine Greene.Who can use PocketKnowledge?
---Teachers College faculty(Columbia University), staff, and students can upload, access, and comment on PocketKnowledge content, whereas the general public is limited to viewing and commenting.

how to add rss content in firefox

Top 101 Classic Web Sites - Year 2006

The Top 101 Classic Web Sites of 2006 ................ by PC Magazine

top 101 classics for 2006

• Apps - PC & Mobile
• Business & Finance
• Careers
• Computing
• Consumer Electronics & Photography
• Health
• Information, Search & Reference
• Lifestyle, Entertainment & Fun
• News
• Oddities & Gaming
• Shopping
• Travel

Medical Librarian blogs

Medical librarianship blogs by

-David Rothman

New Location: http://liswiki.org/wiki/Medlib_Blogs

For discussion of why we wanted to move the list over there, please see check out these comments:
http://davidrothman.net/2006/07/29/a-masterlist-of-medlib-blogs/#comment-137

Blog URL	Feed URL	Blog Name	Short Description of Blog
[Address]	[Feed]	DavidRothman.net	A blog about Medical Librarianship, Technology, and Library School by a hospital library para-professional and MLIS student in Syracuse, NY
[Address]	[Feed]	The Krafty Librarian	Every Librarian Needs a Bag of Tricks
[Address]	[Feed]	UBC Academic Search - Google Scholar Blog	"To observe, document & comment on the evolution of academic-scholarly searching" - Dean Giustini
[Address]	[Feed]	Biomedbiblog	Weblog of the Dutch Medical Library Asscociation (Dutch Language)
[Address]	[Feed]	medinfo weblog	Informations from medicine, library, and press (German Language)
[Address]	[Feed]	Browsing	Things that caught the eye of Keith Nockels, Information Librarian, Clinical Sciences Library, University of Leicester
[Address]	[Feed]	The Cornflower	The Blog of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region
[Address]	[Feed]	DLnet	Digital Libraries Network is for health librarians and trainers in the UK, interested in promotion and training
[Address]	[Feed]	Dragonfly	News from the Pacific Northwest Regional Medical Library
[Address]	[Feed]	IHSLA News	Indiana Health Sciences Library Association
[Address]	[Feed]	NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog	NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog
[Address]	[Feed]	T. Scott	Blog of T. Scott Plutchak
[Address]	[Feed]	Women's Health News	Women's Health News & Resources from a Medical Librarian
[Address]	[Feed]	Librarians' Rx	Items of possible interest to Canadian Health Sciences Librarians
[Address]	[Feed]	Guus van den Brekel	Thoughts and actions of Guus van den Brekel, Coordinator of Electronic Services, Central Medical Library (CMB)The CMB is a medical library in the north of the Netherlands, part of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) and one of the libraries of the University of Groningen (English Language)
[Address]	[Feed]	MWB News	News from the Medical-Scientific Library, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg (German Language)
[Address]	[Feed]	medlibrarian.net	Taking the pulse of medical librarianship
[Address]	[Feed]	Clinical Evidence and Searching Tidbits	Research methodology and searching from a clinical librarian's perspective
Address]	Feed]	Blog Name Here	Blog Description Here

RSS Tutorials for Law Librarians

by Jason Eiseman, Computer Automation Librarian at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt.

Part 1: Introduction (approx. 6 min.)
Part 1 introduces RSS as a concept. This tutorial discusses why RSS is important, and looks at an RSS feed.

Part 2: Using an aggregator (approx. 13 min.)
Part 2 deals with how to set up an RSS aggregator and subscribe to RSS feeds.

Part 3: Advanced RSS (approx. 15 min.)
Part 3 goes over specific tools that law librarians can use to set up RSS feeds which might benefit their libraries.

RSS integrated into Email -Boost the RSS application

RSS Reader integrated with email

"In other email platforms, as I've mentioned before I think once Yahoo Mail Beta goes live (probably sometime in 2007) then RSS will reach another huge user base. Yahoo Mail has 250M + users and RSS is integrated within the mail inbox in Yahoo Mail Beta, enabling you to check your favorite RSS feeds at the same time as checking your email. It's no accident Yahoo chose to implement RSS in the inbox - everybody uses email, so by adding RSS into the mix Yahoo is making it easy for mainstream people to adopt RSS reading as a daily habit.

The same I think will apply to Google, once (if?) they implement RSS reading into Gmail. They've already started down that path by re-designing Google Reader to mimic the Gmail interface.

As a sidenote, I'll also be following closely what Google does with GData and Google Base, which both use RSS and its variant Atom.

The Widget Factor

Finally, MySpace really does hold most of the cards in the developing widget war - because it is the biggest platform by far for widgets, not counting the mass populace of independent blogs (which only compares to MySpace numbers in aggregate). A lot of widgets are powered by RSS, or a variant of it. So MySpace is going to be one of the key RSS platforms in 2007 - and how they manage this platform will be keenly watched.

Any way you look at it, 2007 is shaping up to be a BIG year for RSS!"

OPAC Tips & Tricks

Glenn Peterson from engagedpatrons.org started out this presentation with template that read "Libraries Change Lives Through Lifelong Learning" - I LOVE IT!!

One of the things that we do at our library and is a pet peeve of mine when other libraries don't is integrating the catalog into the website. This is not an easy task given the inadequate tools our ILS vendors provide to work with the pages - but it's well worth taking the time to implement. Glenn mentioned that this will increase the user's experience (and I agree) and will save the user's time - if you catalog is a separate template than it's not easy for the users to get to other library resources while in the catalog - by integrating everything you make all of your resources available from everywhere.