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Sarah Milstein, who will be a keynote speaker at Buying & Selling eContent ,has a fabulous article about using Twitter in the enterprise in the New York Times.
I wish I could write as well as she d...

Springer announced last week that it bought the open access publisher BioMed Central. There’s an announcement about the acquisition on the Springer site, but nothing at BioMed Central’s. The latest...

I’m pleased that Accoona at least told us when it became defunct. There are some other search engines that haven’t been so forthcoming. They’re the "living dead" of search engines. The business sea...

I was checking out some web sites for a presentation at Internet Librarian International and found this message at the Accoona site:
"Dear Accoona search users,
Due to an overwhelmingly competitive...

Webometrics is a twice-yearly ranking of the web presence of universities worldwide that started in 2004. It covers over 16,000 higher education institutions worldwide to measure their "activity an...

I was actually looking for updates on the performance of Danish athletes in the Olympics when I found this article from the Copenhagen Post (which will become fee-based when it enters the archives)...

My public library just sent me an email explaining that it will be closed for 3 days (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) to install a new open source ILS (Evergreen). It also told me that, due to Evergr...

Opening ceremony yesterday at World Library & Information Congress went way too long. Not sure what they were thinking. Do the organizers really think thousands of people want to spend their entire...

The 29th library to join the Google Book Search Library project is the municipal library of Lyon. That would be Lyon, France, and the municipal library is the second largest library in the country....

Jaye Lapachet, Library Manager for Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP in San Francisco and an SLA member, has published an article about business development and the new library. If that gets a yawn f...