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August 24, 2007

The URL Clearinghouse Moves to a Wiki

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...

June 21, 2007

What Is Worth Publishing in Print?

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)....

December 27, 2006

Why Can't a Wiki Be More Like a Blog?

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...

December 04, 2006

Wikis, Collective Intelligence and Libraries

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...

November 20, 2006

The Coming End of Completed Publications

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,...

November 06, 2006

A Library 2.0 Election Day

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...

November 02, 2006

Publishing Books and Articles on Wikis

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...

October 04, 2006

Wikis: A Slow Evolution Part 2

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...

October 03, 2006

Wikis: A Slow Evolution

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...