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Brian Gray | 1 Mar 02:50
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Re: RefQ: Are there web-enabled cell phones that can use local wireless?

It depends if the phone is wifi enabled. Most phones just access the
web through their traditional service and not wireless though.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Cornwall, Daniel D (EED)
<dan.cornwall@...> wrote:
>  I've been asked whether people with web-enabled cell phones might be
>  able to sign onto our library wireless network. My off the cuff response
>  was no because many web-enabled phones are tied to a single service
>  provider. Has anyone here heard differently?
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B.G. Sloan | 1 Mar 17:36
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The charms of Wikipedia


  An interesting Nicholson Baker piece on Wikipedia from the New York Review of Books. An excerpt:

  "Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It's fact-encirclingly huge, and it's idiosyncratic, careful,
messy, funny, shocking, and full of simmering controversies—and it's free, and it's fast. In a few
seconds you can look up, for instance, "Diogenes of Sinope," or "turnip," or "Crazy Eddie," or "Bagoas,"
or "quadratic formula," or "Bristol Beaufighter," or "squeegee," or "Sanford B. Dole," and you'll have
knowledge you didn't have before. It's like some vast aerial city with people walking briskly to and fro on
catwalks, carrying picnic baskets full of nutritious snacks."

  http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131

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Brian Gray | 2 Mar 07:07
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Re: Anyone promoting library/collections through reader comments on newspapers?

Several librarians at my library do post suggestions in the
university's operated forums. We even created a category for "Ask a
Librarian" for people not afraid to ask their questions in the open
and than we get a chance to demonstrate our services to all the forum
readers.

I do not recall what parts the public can see, but here it is:
http://forum.case.edu/

Brian Gray
mindspiral@...

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Cornwall, Daniel D (EED)
<dan.cornwall@...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  Lately I've been noticing a number of newspaper websites offering
>  registered users the ability to comment on articles, opinion pieces and
>  letters. At least two papers in my state Anchorage Daily News
>  (www.adn.com) and the Juneau Empire (juneauempire.com) offer this
>  feature. It offers advantages over letters to the editor because limits
>  on number of letters and post length do not appear to apply. Plus the
>  comment can be made immediately.
>
>  To me it seems like this might be a good opportunity to promote library
>  resources if done carefully in a nonpartisan way. For example, if you
>  notice a group of letters to the editor talking about the role of
>  religion in the birth of this country, a library might point out they
>  have a collection of "Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789" so
>  people can read and judge for themselves. If there are articles about
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Peter Murray | 2 Mar 21:00
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Re: RefQ: Are there web-enabled cell phones that can use local wireless?


On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Cornwall, Daniel D (EED) wrote:
> I've been asked whether people with web-enabled cell phones might be
> able to sign onto our library wireless network. My off the cuff  
> response
> was no because many web-enabled phones are tied to a single service
> provider. Has anyone here heard differently?

As others have indicated, it depends on whether the phone has wi-fi  
capabilities.  The iPhone is one that does.  The HTC Mogul from Sprint  
and Verizon is another.

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Jeanne | 3 Mar 15:08

Search Competition for Librarians at New Information Portal


  We'd like to announce a new service for information professionals and librarians – ResearchTrail. 

  ResearchTrail has two aims:

  * To be a community and a meeting-place where those of us whose job it is to find information can interact
with, collaborate with, and help the people who need that information, and also help each other. 

  * To provide a marketplace where businesses and individuals can find professional searchers, and
info-pros looking for clients can advertise their services.
  Since ResearchTrail is a free-access website, it's truly global – no matter where you live, you can
interact with other information professionals, get help, and find work through ResearchTrail's marketplace.

  ResearchTrail goes online on March 9th; but you can register now at www.researchtrail.com. 

  Before we open, we'll send everyone who registered a personal username, so you can get a sneak preview. Then
we open with a search competition (with prizes) for information professionals – to encourage as many of
you as possible try us out and comment on what we're doing right and wrong and what you'd like to see there. 
Everyone who's registered is eligible to take part in the competition too.

  ResearchTrail is built by info-pros for info-pros. We look forward to seeing you all on-site and hearing
what you think.

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Jeanne Klempner
Information Specialist
ResearchTrail Ltd - Expert Powered Search
http://www.researchtrail.com
jeanneklempner@...
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Thomas Bennett | 3 Mar 15:11
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Re: access and error logs

I use webalizer on a nightly cron job to append to the webalizer statistics.  
There is another cron job that keeps up to 4 of the Apache's most current log 
files although webalizer only looks at the current log so I assume there is 
minimum lose when the current log file is archived before webalizer runs.  I 
have kept all webalizer reports since I started using webalizer some years 
ago because they don't take a whole lot of room.  webalizer only shows the 
past 12 months but months beyond the previous 12 can be viewed using the same 
syntax as any month within the past 12 months just change the year parameter 
in the URL.

Thomas

On Friday 29 February 2008 18:12, Sutherland, Michael wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I was looking for information on typical procedure for holding onto
> access and error logs for a web server and searched the web4lib archive.
> According to those posts from April of 2000, it looked as though
> respondents held onto those for quite some time (at least 5 years).  I'm
> wondering if that is still common practice to archive these logs? What
> is 'typical', if you will, practice for web server administrators to do
> with those logs and is there any documentation for that practice? I'm
> sure it's different for each library depending on your record management
> protocols, but I'm curious about common procedure for keeping this
> information.
>
> Thank you for your time and consideration,
> Michael
>
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Charles W. Bailey, Jr. | 3 Mar 16:18

Version 71, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Version 71 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship.
This selective bibliography presents over 3,250 articles,
books, and other printed and electronic sources that are
useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing
efforts on the Internet.

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital
publications since my resignation from the University
of Houston Libraries, see:

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm

Changes in This Version

The bibliography has the following sections (revised
sections are marked with an asterisk):

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues*
2 Electronic Books and Texts
     2.1 Case Studies and History*
     2.2 General Works*
     2.3 Library Issues
3  Electronic Serials
     3.1 Case Studies and History*
     3.2 Critiques
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Tim Spalding | 3 Mar 17:13
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LibraryThing Local

This is a bit promotional—announcing a new LT feature that isn't only
for libraries. I hope it's not over the line.

We just added a sub-site called "LibraryThing Local." Every bookstore,
book fair and *library* gets a page, for people to "favorite" and for
all their events. So far, members have added 2,800 venues, including
1,600 libraries—so yours may already be there, but can probably be
dressed up and there's a "claim this venue" process.

http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/03/introducing-librarything-local.php

Soon we'll be offering widgets and feeds, so libraries can use our
system to serve their events to others.

If this was over the line, my apologies and please delete!

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Nicole Engard | 3 Mar 17:51
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Job Opening: Assistant Network Administrator, Philadelphia, PA

Assistant Network Administrator / PC and Database Support Specialist @
Jenkins Law Library in Philadelphia, PA

This position is responsible for assisting the Network Administrator,
troubleshooting computers (PC desktops and servers) when needed and
assisting with Website support. The primary focus is to support all
users so they can work optimally in a networked environment.

Learn more http://jobs.jenkinslaw.org

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R. Wood | 3 Mar 18:20
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Open Source Drupal Goes Commercial With Acquia


http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3731476

Excerpt:
  "The open source Drupal content management system is going commercial
  thanks to a new company, called Acquia, that's led by Dries Buytaert,
  the founder of the Drupal project. The new effort is aiming to bring a
  commercially supported version of Drupal to business users and could
  well end up shaking up the entire content management marketplace."

FYI,
Raymond
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