It's not every day that you get a former Captain of the starship Enterprise in your Library, but today was one of those days! Patrick Stewart is the current Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield, and was born just down the road in Mirfield. The refurbished library opened it's doors to students in September (see [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2007’
CILIP, York
Many thanks to everyone for the chance to speak at yesterday's CILIP event in York, held in the Science Learning Centre Yorkshire. There's some more photos from the event on Flickr. I did promise to post the slides, and they are now available on slideshare.net at www.slideshare.net/daveyp/york-cilip. The links used in the presentation were:
What day of the week is it?
I'm getting to the point where I don't know if I'm coming or going, but I do know I'm having a lot of fun! Yesterday was the JIBS Workshop in London (photos here & presentation here). There's lots I'd like to say about the debate that ended the workshop — especially regarding Nick Woolley's narrow [...]
HIPpie update (20/Nov/2007)
Just a quick update — I've not had too much spare time to work on HIPpie since announcing it, partly due to work and conference commitments, but I have been slowly beavering away. The first chunk is some of the back-end code for the "did you mean" spell checker. To try and make the code [...]
Amazon Kindle
Looks like the Amazon Kindle is the hottest topic in LibraryLand… ( LisZen / LibWorm )
OPAC keyword cloud
This is crying out to be done like the visual word map in AquaBrowser, but here's a browseable tag cloud based on data from nearly 2 million keyword searches on our OPAC. The code looks for other keywords that were entered as part of the same search (e.g. "ethics of nursing care") to draw out [...]
CODI 2007
The events last week clashed with CODI 2007, Pittsburgh. In previous years, I've tried to bring together all of the blog posts covering the event, so here's some of the bloggers who covered the event: It's My Life Meeting on the Ledge …I can't believe that there were only 2 active bloggers covering the event, [...]
Waterford, Ireland
A big "thank you" to everyone who made me feel so welcome at the Library Association of Ireland's Public Libraries' Section Conference in Waterford! My presentation ("Libraries on the Web (2.0)") is currently available on SlideShare. There's a big pile of photos from the event on Flickr, and I've also separated out the images taken [...]
Catching Up – CILIP Glasgow & Talis Insight 2007
Just quickly catching up and catching my breath! My two presentations from the last 7 days are now available on slideshare — both were effectively the same: Glasgow – Transformative Technologies – Utilising Web 2.0 in the OPAC Talis Insight 2007 – OPAC 2.0: Teaching the Pig to Sing There's also a selection of photographs [...]