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Anne invites us to take a look at Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog. Lorcan is Vice President of Research and Chief Strategist at OCLC and writes about libraries, services and networks. See his recent comments on wikis and WorldCat, standards and preservation.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services will fund a new 2-year study “User satisfaction with access to government information and services at public libraries and public access computing centers.”
The government wants to know how citizens with limited access to the Internet use government services and whether those users are happy […]

Federal Computer Week reports that fugitive documents are eluding preservationists. The GPO is turning to Web harvesting to locate these hard-to-capture publications and build a Future Digital System.
Many digital documents do not have print versions. Some are lost because agencies remove them from their websites before they can be saved digitally […]

Many Rhode Island library professionals attended the NEASIST conference on May 3, 2005. The podcast for the day’s program is now available at NEASIST EVENTS blog.

An USA Today article details how a Washington state library director and its trustees faced up to a FBI subpoena.

This Firefox add-on provides all sorts of great tools for web developers. View a site’s CSS, image information, javascripts and more. Utilize tools such as the CSS and HTML validator and various accessibility checks. Many features will be familiar to Opera users, such as turning off style and images and viewing page structure. […]

Out of the box, Firefox lacks some of the functions that come with Internet Explorer. Many of those functions can be added though, as PC Magazine reports in Top 15 Firefox Extensions

Many of us have grown used to the now popular Google map. craigslist is a lesser known but growing online resource which provides a free space for local community classifieds and forums. New in 2005, a hack that combines craigslist real estate listings with city maps from Google Maps created HousingMaps – a […]

For those of us who were with Michael Stephens during the NEASIS&T conference on May 3, this is another picture taken, I believe, with his camera phone. Notes of Michael’s presentation is also available further down on the same page.

Groxis, a San Francisco-based company founded in 2001, began allowing computer users to view Yahoo search results with its visualization technology on May 9, 2005. Instead of a list of search results, the site displays textual information in visual maps.