A number of years ago, I created The URL Clearinghouse. This is a collection of instructions for creating URLs to databases and e-journals licensed by libraries from publishers. I became interested in this work because I maintain the EZproxy configurations...
The announcement is going around that the peer-reviewed e-journal Library Philosophy and Practice has published a special issue, Libraries and Google. This reminds me of last year's Google and Libraries issue of Internet Reference Services Quarterly (Vol. 10. No. 3/4)....
Wikis are admirable tools for the collaborative editing of documents. But many of them lack features that make blogs such a participatory success. Participation on wikis focuses on document editing. But what about other types of participation? This is where...
In earlier postings, I've suggested a few ways in which wikis can be used in libraries and academic institutions. I'd like to explore this further, in this entry focusing on student/librarian Web site collaborations. One of the popular misconceptions about...
The prospect of publishing books and articles on wikis has got me thinking about the future of scholarly research in a world in which publications need never be completed. Of course, I don't know for sure if this will happen,...
Tomorrow is Election Day. I've been considering how an academic library might recognize the day with a Library 2.0 approach. The library is the intellectual center on campus. We can make it relevant to our constituencies in a way that...
I've been thinking about the e-mail message recently making the rounds that solicits chapters for successor books to Google and Libraries (aka Internet Reference Services Quarterly Vol. 10, No. 3/4). One of these books will focus on Google Scholar and...
Wikis have the potential to profoundly change the way libraries manage their Web sites and foster student and faculty collaboration. Let's review the salient characteristics of wikis: They are collaboratively maintained Web sites They are run on a content management...
The phenomenon of wikis is often mentioned alongside that of blogs to form the blogs/wikis partnership. This really isn't very accurate, since the pace of their implementation can hardly be compared. Blogs are much more well-known overall, despite the fact...