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Medical Research Services in Sharepoint

By jts | Published: January 30, 2008
Recently, a Medlib-er asked for examples of how medical librarians were using Microsoft Sharepoint. The majority of respondants said they had created sites or pages for their library in Sharepoint, duplicating the usual stuff found on library web sites: ILL forms, links to the public catalog, and other sites – essentially reconstructing the library’s public web site [...]
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Report on Emerging Technologies Released

By jts | Published: December 15, 2007
The 2007 Horizon Report has been released by the New Media Consortium . The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education…. The core of the report [...]
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Moving forward with the library catalog

By jts | Published: August 5, 2006
I continue to be inspired by WPopac, Corey Bisson’s reformulation of the library catalog using WordPress. Corey calls WPopac “an OPAC 2.0 Testbed”. In this case, WordPress is just the means of bringing the library catalog into the 21st Century, with open standards and flexible interfaces. I first learned about WPopac at Corey’s IUG [...]
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Innovation Champions

By jts | Published: June 16, 2006
The June 19 issue of Businessweek introduces a great new section called in, Inside Innovation that features leading innovators, trends, stats, and case studies. In this issue, they profile 5 “Champions of Innovation”. One of the innovators profiled is Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice-President for Search Products and User Experience. From Marissa’s 9 [...]
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