Re: [CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin

2009-05-04 Thread Andreas Orphanides
You say that as though libraries are all about books. Alexander Johannesen wrote: Another nail in the library coffin, especially the academic ones ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIOH80Qg7Q Organisations and people are slowly turning into data producers, not book producers. Alex

Re: [CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin

2009-05-04 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Alexander Johannesen wrote: Another nail in the library coffin, especially the academic ones ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIOH80Qg7Q Organisations and people are slowly turning into data producers, not book producers. You're forgetting the 5th Law: The

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommend book scanner?

2009-05-04 Thread Randy Stern
Printed test sheets: http://www.diytrade.com/china/4/products/1707979/IEEE_Resolution_Chart.html?r=0 or http://www.aig-imaging.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PRODStore_Code=AIIPIProduct_Code=QA-60Category_Code=Video-Scanner-Resolution-Charts At 04:54 PM 5/2/2009 -0700, st...@archive.org wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin

2009-05-04 Thread Alexander Johannesen
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 23:25, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: You're forgetting the 5th Law:        The library is a growing organism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_laws_of_library_science Not forgotten, I just don't believe it anymore. And, taken to its natural

Re: [CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin

2009-05-04 Thread jimm wetherbee
Alexander Johannesen wrote: Libraries still have the word biblio as their primer, and it certainly is the written word on paper that occupies most of our time, no? And one still dials phone numbers on a cell phone. To be honest, most of our efforts are with databases or getting apps, such as

Re: [CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin

2009-05-04 Thread Mike McDermott
Alexander - Maybe you had forgotten that you are posting this to CODE4LIB... :-) You say that as though libraries are all about books. Libraries still have the word biblio as their primer, and it certainly is the written word on paper that occupies most of our time, no?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin

2009-05-04 Thread Alexander Johannesen
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 22:44, Andreas Orphanides andreas_orphani...@ncsu.edu wrote: You say that as though libraries are all about books. Libraries still have the word biblio as their primer, and it certainly is the written word on paper that occupies most of our time, no? Sure libraries around

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon

2009-05-04 Thread Andrew Nagy
David - Keep in mind that aggregators are not the original publishers of content - so even if an aggregator is not yet participating in Summon, the content in their aggregated databases most often **is** indexed by the service. To date there are already over 80 individual content providers

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommend book scanner?

2009-05-04 Thread Han, Yan
The National Archives has the guideline which describes target that you can use for scanning comparison. There are other targets used in other books/articles. I suggest that you check the National Archives' guidelines. http://www.archives.gov/preservation/technical/guidelines.html -Original

Re: [CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin

2009-05-04 Thread Ranti Junus
I always intrigued with everything that has knowledge management or information management aspect of it. I'm more intrigued with the possibility that this tool might be able to work on presenting the information based on the context. Scouring the Twine site gave me this:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin

2009-05-04 Thread Frumkin, Jeremy
Seems more like a conversation for web4lib than code4lib, however, I always find it intriguing that somehow there is this notion that technology and libraries are at odds. While Alexander talks about this being another nail in the coffin, I look at this (and other emerging technologies) are new

Re: [CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin

2009-05-04 Thread Chris Fitzpatrick
My favorite part is when he ask the software to return a bibliographic record matching 245 10$aFaust.$nPart one and the computer literally catches fire. Artificial intelligence is no match for the MARC format. On May 4, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy wrote: Seems more like a