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  1. OCKHAM in Atlanta
  2. Implementing "Light-weight Reference Models" in MyLibrary
  3. European Conference on Digital Libraries
  4. SIGIR '99
  5. Success of Open Source by Steven Weber: A book review
    • Description: Using Linux as its primary example, The Success of Open Source by Steven Weber details the history, process, motivations, and possible long-term effects of open source software (OSS). This scholarly yet easy-to-read, well-written, and provocative book is worth the time of anybody who wants to understand how open source software is effecting information technology. It describes how the process of open source software may effect business & economics, methods of governance, and concepts of intellectual property. It is also a great read for those of us librarians who desire to play a role in the building of next generation library catalogs and other library-related information systems.
    • Date: 2007-10-31
    • Source: The is a pre-edited version of an article with the same title appearing in the first issue of Code4Lib Journal at http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/30.
    • Subject(s): book review; articles; open source software; librarianship;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/success-of-oss/index.shtml
  6. Browsable Lists
  7. Institute on Scholarly Communication: A travel log
    • Description: This travel log documents my experiences at the first Institute on Scholarly Communication (July 12-14, 2006) facilitated by both ARL and ACRL. In a sentence, the Institute was a workshop aimed at helping librarians advance scholarly communication in a networked environment. For the most part I believe the Institute was a success, but its benefits are difficult to measure.
    • Date: 2006-08-22
    • Source: This document was never formally published.
    • Subject(s): scholarly communication; travel log; UCLA;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/instscholcomm/index.shtml
  8. A few possibilities for librarianship by 2015
    • Description: The library profession is at a cross roads. Computer technology coupled with the Internet have changed the way content is created, maintained, evaluated, and distributed. While the core principles of librarianship (collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination) are still very much apropos to the current milieu, the exact tasks of the profession are not as necessary as they once were. What is a librarian to do? In my opinion, there are three choices: 1) creating services against content as opposed to simply providing access to it, 2) curating collections that are unique to our local institutions, or 3) providing sets of services that are a combination of #1 and #2. This presentation elaborates on these ideas and demonstrates some of the possibilities.
    • Date: 2009-11-18
    • Source: This is a keynote presentation for the 4th International LIS-EPI Meeting, Valencia (Spain), November 26, 2009.
    • Subject(s): presentations; librarianship;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/future-2015/index.shtml
  9. CAP '99
  10. Symposium on open access and digital preservation
  11. Sometimes the question is more important than the answer
    • Description: In our profession, sometimes the question is more important than the answer. This column explores ways to better articulate methods for devising search strategies in a globally networked computing environment.
    • Date: 1999-03-16
    • Source: This is as pre-edited article originally published in Computers in Libraries.
    • Subject(s): expert systems;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/search-strategies/index.shtml
  13. Day in the life of Mr. D.
  14. DLF in Chicago
  15. About Searching
  16. Learning to use the tools of the trade
    • Description: The purpose of this article is to articulate how librarians can improve the practices of librarianship by better assimilating the uses of computer technology into the profession's thinking (and "thinquing"). The article accomplishes this goal first by outlining four informal research projects conducted at the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries. It establishes how these projects exemplify the goals of librarianship. Next, the article demonstrates how librarians can use their traditional skill base to provide new and progressive library services while maintaining the traditional principles of the past. Finally, the article describes why these sorts of activities are important to the profession and its growth.
    • Date: 1996-12-06
    • Source: This article also appears in Eric Lease Morgan, "Learning to Use the Tools of the Trade" North Carolina Libraries 54:5 (Winter 1996) 158-160.
    • Subject(s): librarianship;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/tools/index.shtml
  17. Tennessee Library Association
  18. The Balloon-Hoax
  19. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
  20. WILS' World Conference 95: A travel log
  21. Exploiting "Light-weight" Protocols and Open Source Tools to Implement Digital Library Collections and Services
    • Description: This article describes the design and implementation of two digital library collections and services using a number of light-weight protocols and open source tools. These protocols and tools include OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL), Perl, MyLibrary, Swish-e, Plucene, ASPELL, and WordNet. More specifically, we describe how these protocols and tools are employed in the Ockham Alerting service and MyLibrary@Ockham. The services are illustrative examples of how the library community can actively contribute to the scholarly communications process by systematically and programmatically collecting, organizing, archiving, and disseminating information freely available on the Internet. Using the same techniques described here, other libraries could expose their own particular content for their specific needs and audiences.
    • Date: 2005-10-01
    • Source: This article was originally published in D-Lib Magazine, volume 11, Number 10 (October 2005). Its DOI is doi:10.1045/october2005-morgan. Additionally, Xiaorong Xiang was the lead author of this article.
    • Subject(s): articles; OCKHAM (Open Community Knowledge Hypermedia Administration and Metadata); Web Services; open source software;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/protocols-and-oss/index.shtml
  22. Exploiting "Light-weight" Protocols and Open Source Tools to Implement Digital Library Collections and Services
  23. Creating user-friendly electronic information systems
    • Description: The future of any automated information systems, let them be World Wide Web servers or online public access catalogs (OPACs), will have to include "interactive assistance" features. This article reviews the definition of information systems, describes the concept of interactive assistance, describes how it relates to information systems, and points out a few prototypical examples.
    • Date: 1997-07-10
    • Source: This is a pre-edited edited copy for Eric Lease Morgan, "Creating User-Friendly Electronic Information Systems" Computers In Libraries. 17(8):31-33, September 1997.
    • Subject(s): interactive assistance; information systems design; expert systems;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/information-systems/index.shtml
  24. Raleigh-Worcester-Lansing
    • Description: This travel log documents a three-legged trip starting in Raleigh on April 14, 1999, going to Worcester, MA to speak for the North Eastern Technical Services Librarians (NETSL), and moving on to Lansing, MI by April 19 to share some ideas about the immediate future of web-based services in libraries to a division of the Michigan Library Association (MLA).
    • Date: 1999-04-20
    • Source: Based on personal experience; this text was never fomally published.
    • Subject(s): Worcester, MA; Lansing, MI; travel log;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/raleigh-worcester-lansing/index.shtml
  25. Catalogs of the future
  26. WILS' World Conference 95: A travel log
  27. Open Source Software in Libraries: Opportunities and Expenses
    • Description: Open source software (OSS) is not a panacea; it will not cure all problems computer. On the other hand, it does provide the library profession with enumerable opportunities as long as we are willing to pay a few expenses. This essay elaborates on these ideas by: 1) outlining what open source software is, 2) describing how its principles are similar to the principles of librarianship, and 3) enumerating a number of open source software applications. By the end it is hoped you will be have a better understanding of what open source can and cannot do for libraries. You will be better able to discuss topics related to open source software with "techies". Finally, and probably most importantly, you will have learned the definition of "free" in the context of open source.
    • Date: 2008-12-01
    • Source: This presentation was never formally published, but is was written for the MLNC Speaker Series in St. Louis Missouri
    • Subject(s): MLNC Speakers Series; presentations; open source software; librarianship;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/oss4mlnc/index.shtml
  28. ASIS & T 2002 Information Architecture Summit: Refining the craft
  29. Springboards for stategic planning
    • Description: Early last Fall I had the opportunity to see two influential library personalities speak to the future of librarianship: Reva Basch and Clifford Lynch. In a time when change is the norm, describing the future of anything seems a bit ludicrous. Similarly, planning may seem to be a waste of time. You might say, "How can I make plans when I have no idea what is going to happen in the future?" It may seem ironic, but these are the exact times when planning, specifically strategic planning, is most beneficial.
    • Date: 1998-11-26
    • Source: This is pre-edited version of Morgan, Eric Lease. "Springboards for Strategic Planning," Computers in Libraries 19(1):32-33 (January 1999).
    • Subject(s): Basch, Reva; Lynch, Clifford; strategic planning;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/strategic-planning/index.shtml
  30. Next Generation Data Format
  31. Texas Library Association Annual Meeting, 2003
  32. Open access publishing
  33. OCKHAM@Emory (January, 2003)
  34. Review of some ebook technology
    • Description: This column describes my experience to date with the dynamic creation and use of ebook data for Newton MessagePads, PalmPilot personal digital assistants, NuvoMedia's Rocket eBook, and SoftBook Press's SoftBook Reader. In a sentence, ebook technology effectively provides the means for reading electronic texts on portable devices but the functionality of these devices is not necessarily a superset of the functionality of print on paper; the functionality and business models of ebooks and traditional print media overlap.
    • Date: 1999-09-10
    • Source: This text is a pre-edited version of a column originally written for Computers in Libraries.
    • Subject(s): ebooks;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/ebooks/index.shtml
  35. Open Repositories, 2007: A Travelogue
    • Description: This text documents my experiences at the Open Repositories 2007 conference, January 22-26, San Antonio (Texas). In a sentence I learned two things: 1) institutional repository software such as Fedora, DSpace, and EPrints are increasingly being used for more than open access publishing efforts, and 2) the Web Services API of Fedora makes it relatively easy for developers using any programming language to interface with the underlying core.
    • Date: 2007-02-11
    • Source: This file was never formally published.
    • Subject(s): Gruene, Texas; institutional repositories; digital libraries; travel log;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/open-repositories-2007/index.shtml
  36. MicroPhone scripts for searching MEDLARS
    • Description: Scripts written with Microphone (a communications program for Macintosh and DOS-based computers) can greatly simplify searching the MEDLARS family of databases. (MEDLARS is an acronym for medical literature analysis and retrieval system. It includes the files MEDLINE, its backfiles, HEALTH, et cetera.) This article describes some of the scripts the author has written and explains how they can be used to improve your searching techniques.
    • Date: 1992-03-21
    • Source: Originally published as Easy Searching: MicroPhone Scripts for Searching the MEDLARS Family of Databases, Online 16(2):65-69, March 1992.
    • Subject(s): articles; computer programs and scripts; MicroPhone; MEDLARS;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/medlars-scripts/index.shtml
  37. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2006
    • Description: This text outlines my experiences at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Annual Conference in Chapel Hill (North Carolina), June 12-14, 2006. In a sentence, the Conference was a nice mix of formal and informal discussions surrounding digital research library topics, and it was also nice to see a large number of familiar faces. The conference's content presented few surprises.
    • Date: 2006-06-27
    • Source: This text was never formally published.
    • Subject(s): digital libraries; JCDL; travel log;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/jcdl-2006/index.shtml
  38. What people are saying
  39. Assistance

Creator: Eric Lease Morgan <eric_morgan@infomotions.com>
Date created: 2000-06-20
Date updated: 2010-05-01
URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/