We just wrapped up the second session of the ALA TechSource Workshop Evaluating and Implementing Web Scale Discovery Services in Your Library with Jason Vaughan and Tamera Hanken. The presentation included some fantastic discussion, and we wanted to provide an opportunity for participants and the general public to continue that here. Here are a few [...]
We just wrapped up the first session of the ALA TechSource Workshop Evaluating and Implementing Web Scale Discovery Services in Your Library with Jason Vaughan and Tamera Hanken. The presentation included some fantastic discussion, and we wanted to provide an opportunity for participants and the general public to continue that here. Do you have follow-up [...]
It’s no secret that Web-Scale discovery services are a big deal. Web scale discovery is a transformative technology that allows librarians and patrons to search seamlessly across a vast range of local and remote, preharvested and indexed content, receiving relevancy-ranked results in the intuitive interface expected by today’s information seekers. It is a big part of [...]
This column appears in the March 2011 issue of Smart Libraries Newsletter. To read more from Marshall Breeding on mobile library technology and other facets of the library automation industry, you can purchase this issue or subscribe to Smart Libraries Newsletter at our metapress site. One major trend in the library automation industry that I have [...]
For people in the library systems world, it’s no secret that Web Scale Discovery Systems are a big deal. As Jason Vaughan explains in the new issue of Library Technology Reports, ” These services are capable of searching quickly and seamlessly across a vast range of local and remote content and providing relevancy-ranked results in [...]
I recently received discovery from a plaintiff in a civil case. The attorney provided the discovery in printed format and on a “floppy” disk (computer disk in reality, although I still call them floppy disks). She did this in accordance with the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure but I still had to laugh. I haven’t [...]