Indeed, institutions are already investing significant amounts in locally developed solutions given market failures, which leads to redundant effort. Indicative use cases are discussed.
They reported little support for a 'subscription-based software development corporation'.
The service will act as a portal for the discovery of Australian people and organisations by clustering entries created by partner agencies, with links to related resources. org to present a selection of libraries close to your zip code. It is also interesting to see the focus on national collaboration, and working with national organizations to create shared approaches. Library staff tend to be disappointed that the drive-in users do not make use of other services; not unsurprisingly, they 'express delight' about library enthusiasts.
I found it strange that the report's focus is one potential answer to this set of issues, rather than the issues themselves and a range of possible answers.
Currently it checks prices in several book buying sites, will look in selected library sites, or will interact with Worldcat.
The study took an ethnographic approach, using a variety of qualitiative techniques to try to build up a rich picture of library perceptions and expectations. The former they associate with volunteer community-oriented activities like Linux and Apache.
The project page is hosted at Ithaka: will it also host an Organization for Open Source Software as discussed in the report? Often used in a neutral business sense, it is not surprising - given what may be at stake - that sometimes discussion of sourcing is shot through with political preferences or emotional attachment.
dk to any great degree during the selection process'.
The authors note that 'during the interviews, many users expressed genuine surprise that they could actually ask library employees for advice'. In that context, the more we know about the characteristics of collections and how they compare becomes of more interest. That said, it appears that all that you need do is add the slide number to the base URL for direct access to a particular slide.
The latter they associate with a centrally managed model, often with dedicated funding. I uploaded one presentation which worked very smoothly. More importantly, there are specific options when Zotero recognizes a page it knows how to scrape from: you see an icon in the location bar, like the RSS icon when Firefox discovers a feed.
But turn off the snapshots: not only were they excruciatingly slow, they ended up as empty PDFs. The authors report that people tend not to use the library for searching, but, once something is found, they do look to the library to get it. In this way, it is suggested that Google and the library are not direct competitors.
But, of course, these are directions in which we plan to go, integrating 'find it' services with 'get it' services across multiple independently managed systems.
Users tended not to turn to librarians for support in the search phase; they are most likely to ask for assistance in the retrieval phase.
It has a strong family resemblance to YouTube, including the emphasis on ease of linking from and embedding in blogs and other sites. There was a desire to see abstracts and tables of contents. Users were enthusiastic about embedding links to relevant staff in results, based on a match between search terms and a librarian profile. And in some cases share them.
Because Sakai exists, it is is suggested by some, Blackboard is more responsive to standards issues and the hope is that it may lead Blackboard to lower prices. It makes interesting reading, especially because it is unusual to read materials in this area which have such a self-conscious policy, rather than technical, focus.
Users were enthusiastic about embedding links to relevant staff in results, based on a match between search terms and a librarian profile.