website

http://www.pitt.edu/~rsteve/index.htm

Here is my home page. This was easier than I thought, but some parts were a little tricky. You have to make sure every little piece is correct.

Institutional Repositories

I did a paper on IRs for collection development and I find them rather fascinating. The Netherlands has some great IRs and are working with publishers to improve those IRs. Does Pitt have an IR? That was one thing I couldn't find when I was writing my paper. There was a meeting of ARL a few years ago and part of that meeting stated that all ARLs had to spend $50,000 on an IR.

Koha

http://pitt4.kohawc.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/bookshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=58

HTML

I never realized how easy it was to create a webpage. I imagine that creating graphics and some really cool stuff would be more difficult, but the text seems pretty easy. Is there one software that is better than another to create HTMLs? Also why the change from three letter extensions to four? Does it really make a difference?

Jing

I've been trying to download Jing for the past week. I've tried on three different computers and can't get it to work on any of them. I've given up asking questions because no one ever answers them.

CiteULike

http://www.citeulike.org/user/rjstouva

There weren't any articles on art theft on CiteULike so I had to go with art.

To YouTube or Not to YouTube

http://www.bl.uk/news/2008/pressrelease20080116.html

Over the summer I found this study which talks about libraries using new forms of social networking like YouTube and Facebook to reach patrons. According to the study patrons, especially students, don't want libraries on these. They feel libraries are encroaching on their space. I, however, think it's a great idea, but I don't want to make patrons feel like I'm invading their teritory. I've been doing some research on this and people can only agree that there's not enough research on the topic. So what do you guys think? Is it a good idea or should we as libraries invest in another technology? Also would anyone be interested in trying to do a study about this with me? I've got a lot of it worked out I just need more people to help. Let me know! It could be very interesting.