Monthly Archives: October 2005

From browser to collector

Of the several new tools under development discussed at ARL’s lively symposium on Managing Digital Assets in Washington last week, none seemed simpler in concept, or more likely to be popular in practice, than “Firefox Scholar,” an IMLS-funded initiative underway at George Mason University (details here). The idea is to grab metadata for digital resources

Taking it personally

The old personalized web portal wars may have been bloody, but the concept is obviously here to stay. My Yahoo, My AOL, even serenely uncluttered Google plays with personalized searches and feeds. So why wouldn’t an academic library offer a similar service? A one-stop expandable agglomeration of the kind of information a prof might want