The Digital Commons @ Kennesaw State and the Horace W. Sturgis Library arepleased to announce "Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice:Institutional Repositories as Publishers," a free one-day conference oninstitutional repositories and their place in undergraduate education.Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011Location: KSU Continuing EducationThe keynote speaker will be Nancy Hensel, Executive Officer for the Councilon Undergraduate Research.

from apple & maclearning.org -- sounds interesting!http://edseminars.apple.com/event/2610----Learning in an open-access world.Join colleagues from across the country in exploring how open access is transforming learning in higher education. Apple and MacLearning.org invite you to AcademiX 2010 for a look at open access, the new teaching methods that are evolving with it, and the Apple technologies that help make it all simple.

Over the past few years, some members of Georgia's archival community have expressed the desire to have a state-wide EAD project. Given UGA's and DLG's recent successes in developing finding aid databases, we are wondering if now might be the time to leverage our expertise to develop a state-wide EAD database. As a first tentative step we'd like to gauge interest and basic institutional needs before deciding whether such a project might be feasible.

heh heh... some of these are actually well thought, while others are clearly humorous...1. Librarians take care of libraries, which are still invaluable today.2. Not all information is on the internet.3. Older books still hold great cultural significance.4. Libraries are still repositories for some of the most valuable works of literature in the world.5. Even with the internet, the library is still the best place to do research.6. Girls with glasses can still rock the “sexy librarian” look.7. “Sexy Librarian” is still a popular costume at Halloween.8.

Video excerpt of last week's webinar in second life. This segment deals with digital video repositories.

Excellent article and overview of opensource, covering everything from licensing (yes, opensource has it), its evolution, security, issues, & more.

Raymond has compared the development of OSS to a bazaar, where large numbers of interested individuals congregate to contribute (code contributors are called committers) or to provide peer review of the wares in the market (in this case, testing and new feature recommendations for the software in the repositories [1]).

Well, since I have so many little library related tidbits floating around in my reader, I'm just going to do a roundup:

• Over at the shifted librarian, she has a nice blog post about the new startup project, bibliocommons @ the Oakville, Ontario library, to build a library catalog interface from scratch. The interface includes things like reviews, tagging, faceted searching, etc.

okay, pardon the bad pun on dr. strangelove...I've been following some of the opensource ils projects with interest. evergreen (launched by the Georgia Public Lib System), is still in heavy development.

ok, this isn't really the unloved blog. I've just been busy finishing up classwork and the holidays. My carpal tunnel also reappeared in mid december so I have been resting my hands as much as possible. I'm trying to clear my professional development calendar now to give me as much space as possible for the Peabodies and other upcoming projects. I spend quite a bit of time outside of work doing things, so the more things I finish up NOW the better. 99.5 % Finished I've finished up the last of my New Georgia Encyclopedia articles.

Institutional Repositories Well, the Institutional Repositories Metadata subgroup(? I'm not sure what we are actually called but that will suffice for me) met. It was very interesting ---so many perplexing issues in terms of metadata for a group digital repository. We will be meeting again in the near future. Online Portfolios I'm also going to be working with a few folks to look out online portfolios/profiles for library staff. I think the idea is that the portfolio/profile could be linked off of the staff directory.