Zoom vending
“Part of the appeal of
Zoom Shops, particularly those carrying electronics, has been the no-pressure environment. Akin to shopping online, customers can read information about the products and make decisions without the presence of salespeople.”
For zoom zine vending go to
Zine Machine or go to a zoom zine vending
conference.
Wikipedia bundled
The idea that everything is in flux forever is a bit loony. There is a phase space surrounding any encyclopedic entry term and as the term is subjected to multiple expressions, either over time or across contributors or both, it will come to rest near a useful, adept expression. The classical EB 1911 edition is like that. A paper Wiki or one bundled on a computer drive, will be like that. The only requirement for this elegant, emergent process is a wide and attentive readership.
Wikimania
14 participants in the fall SLIS class
The ever popular Structures for Book Conservation class is building its own FotB
page.
Frederick G Kilgour, 1914-2006
Frederick G. Kilgour, a librarian and educator who created an international computer library network and database that changed the way people use libraries, died on July 31, 2006. He was 92 years old and had lived since 1990 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Kilgour is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in 20th century librarianship for using computer networks to increase access to information in libraries around the world. He was among the earliest proponents of adapting computer technology to library processes. At the dawn of library automation in the early 1970ís, he founded OCLC Online Computer Library Center and led the creation of a library network that today links 55,000 institutions in 110 countries. The OCLC system now contains over 70 million book records.
What will provide the underlying index for Google Book? How many books are behind the Google curtain today?