Technology for the Information Commons in a Special Library
March 16th, 2005Technology for the Information Commons in a Special Library
Nancy Liu and Nancy Allmang from NIST
Physical place for gathering and sharing new technologies (SC: I wonder if they wil ltalk about wikis)
+ Mass media is underming the right of the people to share information.
+ Free IM reference service.
+ 2003 - Pilot wireless laptop loan program.
- distributed 6 lsaptops to users.
- Laptops check out 147
- small core of ardent fans for the program
+ They use Firefox - (Built in G! Toolbar? - SC: It has a built in search bar, not a google toolbar)
+ Beaming software between PDA’s.
+ PDF Scanning Workstation (SC: Suweeeeeeet - saves paper, and the user can e-mail article to themselves)
+ Running IM project and mentions trillian basic.
+ They want to start distributing Mp3 players and Ipods
Virtual commons
+ Open Access journals available
+ She talks about RSS Feed Locators and Aggregators. (SC: perfect: an explanation and links to readers - Go NIST Library)
+ links to Speechbot
(SC: I asked about whether or not they supply their press releases or library news via RSS - since they have a page dedicated to RSS - I was told that they do not. Could be an example to the ‘practice what you preach’ model that I have always advocated for in my presentations. I enjoyed this presentation. The information commons is ideal if Cliff Lynch’s future information systems are to be met.)