CoFHE Website

I have started really ploughing in to this project, after an eventful chritmas it’s good to get focused finally.  Although planning is nearly always harder then implementing, I hope that the CMS is not too inflexible that we grind to an undignified hault, many members want dynamic content with pictures and a more inviting interface, [...]

Training tomorrow – CMS CoFHE

Well I am off to London tomorrow to see the wonderful wizard of Oz, not really.  As the Arch Web Editor for CoFHE I have to become trained in the art of using the CILIP Content Management System.  This is, for those unsure, a system that allows multiple users to create, edit and upload web [...]

Non Google Day

Here is a suggestion for something that I reckon, would prove a hit in any academic library.  A ‘Non Google Day’.
Google is now a verb in itself, to ‘Google‘ something is the act of looking up information on the internet, “What’s a multi faceted information architecture?” ”I don’t know, why don’t you google it!“ etc.
So here is [...]

Pressure on Public Libraries from migrant workers and Weeding, the academics worst nightmare.

Two interesting stories have appeared in my local rag, the first one is a report from the Local Government Association stating that migrant workers are ‘hogging’ the public access PC’s in local libraries, and the second one was an article about students protesting against Exeter University weeding some books in the main Streatham Campus library.
So [...]

Google Translate – Awesome resource

Well, I think Mightysearch was more then I could chew, the very nature of the beast would mean  me dedicating more time then I humanly have.
I introduce Google Translate a fantastic resource like Babelfish, but with more functionality.  If you commonly translate between two languages then you can even add a button on your toolbar [...]

Positive news…

For once I have positive career news.  I volunteered for a position of Web Editor for COFHE and it looks like I have got the job.  No extra money and extra responsibility, and even two other volunteers to boss about.  It looks like I am on my own with this one, as the responsibility is [...]

Ebooks, my two cents/pence

I would love to stand here on my pedastal and say that ebooks are going to be the future of LIS and that paper will be admonished to the recycling bins in a few years time, but that is simply not going to happen.  Like the Internet, CDROMs and other formats that have come and [...]

Mightysearch.org.uk

I want to introduce a project that I am working on called Mightysearch.  The idea is simple, it has already been done before, but as far as I know not in a forum environment.  Using a free hosting service that uses phpBB forums (imho the most adaptable and easy to use) I have created a [...]

Probing the hidden web with Complete Planet

What an invaluable tool.  Bright Planet featured in an article on SearchEngineWatch about the Hidden Web/Deep Web/ Invisible Web, and years ago introduced me to one of my favourite search engines.
Complete Planet searches web pages and sites that are stored away in databases or ‘hidden’ from the realms of Google and more traditional search engines.  [...]

The Index Card Revival

http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/10/10/24-things-you-can-do-with-an-index-card/
I vaguely remember index cards, at school we had little card wallets that we called library cards but still the catalogues were on an OPAC.  Admittedly we, as an institution, still had a few things on index cards dotted around but what are we going to do with with all these old cards that are [...]