One note on this. All of the commercial printers I have seen from the
plastic shooters to water cutters that can turn out a great car wheel
have been enclosed boxes with safety systems. They are orders of
magnitude safer than, say, a bunsen burner. Sure, these can be
defeated by someone with
This has turned into quite a discussion. I think the whole issue of
liability is a bit overstated. A 3D printer is somewhere between a toaster
oven and a xerox machine in terms of dangerousness. Yes, a student might
burn themselves on hot plastic or the printing surface but they might get a
I find this conversation interesting, mostly because the why do it
reasons given parallel so closely what we are working on at NC State in our
new library building. Except it doesn't have anything to do with
makerspaces!
Our emphasis is on taking expensive visualization and high performance
When we created FOSS4Lib we knew that we didn't want to duplicate things that
projects were already doing for themselves. Rather, we wanted FOSS4Lib to be a
hub to find out about all things related to open source software in libraries.
One of the pieces of our original design was the ability to
I am looking for a female roommate for the upcoming Access conference in
Montreal. Email me if you are interested. Thx!
~Bohyun
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Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS.
Digital Access Librarian | 305.348.1471
Florida International University Medical Library
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I agree. These are basically the same reasons we built a Digital Design Studio
in the
Library last year. During the past year, the director of the DDS worked
closely with
several professors who incorporated multimedia assignments into their
coursework.
In addition to an instruction session
I'm really tempted to go, though I don't know if I'd get funding for
it. Which nights will you be there?
Linda Ballinger
@meta_cat
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Linda Ballinger
Principal Cataloging Librarian
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
balling...@newberry.org
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Bohyun Kim
Hi,
On 08/27/2012 04:36 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
I also assumed that Ed wasn't suggesting that we literally use github as
our platform, but I do want to remind folks how far we are from having
people friendly versioning software -- at least, none that I have seen
has felt intuitive. The features
On Aug 28, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Emily Lynema wrote:
I find this conversation interesting, mostly because the why do it
reasons given parallel so closely what we are working on at NC State in our
new library building. Except it doesn't have anything to do with
makerspaces!
Our emphasis is on
An interesting reference is this:
High, W. M. (1990). Editing Changes to Monographic Cataloging Records in the
OCLC Database: An Analysis of the Practice in Five University Libraries. PhD
thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
It's in UMI (and Heavy Trussed).
Simon
On Aug
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On Aug 28, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Galen Charlton wrote:
Hi,
On 08/27/2012 04:36 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
I also assumed that Ed wasn't suggesting that we literally use github as
our platform, but I do want to remind folks how far we are from having
people friendly versioning software -- at
On Aug 28, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
I seem to recall seeing a presentation a couple of years ago from someone in
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they stored RDF quads so they could track the source.
They'd then assign a confidence
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