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Digital Libraries: Open Source Metasearch By Roy Tennant - 10/15/2007
Software that searches multiple remote sources and merges the results for the user has been available for several years. Whether called federated searching, cross-database searching, or metasearching, it aims to make it as easy as possible for library users to find what they want from many different sources.
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Digital Libraries: The Year of the Open By Roy Tennant - 09/15/2007
Two events this year are ushering in a new era of openness—both in the source code and the file formats of commercial software.
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Digital Libraries: Looking Back To Go Forward By Roy Tennant - 08/15/2007
My story is probably similar to many others. We saw, we learned, we used, and we eventually discarded. For every technology like the web, there are at least five other technologies that have passed into oblivion.
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Digital Libraries: Demise of the Local Catalog By Roy Tennant - 07/15/2007
Over four years ago I wrote that the library catalog should be pushed into the back room where it belonged and that a unified finding tool be put in its place (LJ 2/15/03, p. 28, and LJ 6/15/03, p. 28). I still believe our users want to find everything they can on a topic in one place, with one search, rather than going from place to place puzzling out each new interface.
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Digital Libraries: Three Hard Things By Roy Tennant - 06/15/2007
A few years ago, I wrote a column called “Five Easy Pieces” to help answer the question, “Are you focused on the right tasks, solving the right problems?”
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Tennant: Digital Libraries Roy Tennant, Senior Program Manager, OCLC Programs and Research July 9, 2007 Small Screen Devices
All the iPhone hype can be a bit overwhelming, but any time a brand new consumer devi... More
Tennant: Digital Libraries Roy Tennant, Senior Program Manager, OCLC Programs and Research July 7, 2007 Dirty Data
A while back I wrote a Library Journal column entitled "The Murky Bucket Syndrom... More
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