Technology

Departments: Finding Your Voice

Blogging for career advancement and networking

by Meredith Farkas

Having a professional online portfolio is a great way to show off your technology skills and provide additional information to potential employers that doesn’t fit into your résumé and cover letter. However, this alone won’t give them a...

Posted March 8, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Departments: My Favorite Medium

So this is where the love is

Will Manley

The guy driving the airport shuttle van couldn’t get over it. I had arrived at the Philadelphia airport and was to be driven to a speaking engagement at a library conference in New Jersey. I had called the driver from home before I left...

Posted March 3, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

News Story: Thorny Fairness Issues Delay Decision on Google Books Settlement

“I am not going to rule today,” stated Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court in New York City February 18 before hearing testimony at the long-awaited fairness hearing about settlement of the five-year-old lawsuit against Google...

Posted February 23, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

News Story: Cornell Seeks Sustainable arXiv Support

Cornell University Library has introduced a voluntary, collaborative business model to support arXiv, its free...

Posted February 18, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Departments: Is Technology Catching Up?

By Leonard Kniffel

Even non-techies can offer cutting-edge services right away, says Ellyssa Kroski in her cover story for the...

Posted February 18, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Blog entry: IT Security Practices

Question: My library is looking to develop an IT security policy. Does ALA have a policy in place that we could review?

Answer: ALA...

Posted February 18, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Departments: Cataloging Horizons

Navigating the bibliographic space with linked data

By Karen Coyle

Library catalogs have evolved over time as technology has changed. The last 150 years have seen a progression from book catalogs to cards, and eventually, to online catalogs. Each of these changes has provided new capabilities that can...

Posted February 12, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Departments: Whither Wikipedia?

The collaborative encyclopedia faces growing pains

by Joseph Janes

You’ve got to feel a bit for Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales. Here’s a guy with a fairly simple but incredibly powerful idea: Create a way for people to share what they know with the wider world and in the process build a resource that...

Posted February 12, 2010 | Comments: | Read More