Reese’s Inspired GT Cake
Inspired by Baking for John blog post
I made the cookie part into a bottom crust and decoared with Reese’s candy instead.
Thanks Paul Peters at University of Manitoba Libraries for the great idea!
Mobile Library Circulation App
Inspired by the the red laser app, could we create a mobile self-checkout with an iPhone app?
With red laser you hold up your iPhone to a barcode (say you’re shopping for an expresso maker and you found one in Costco but you’re wondering if you can order somewhere else cheaper) and voila you get price comparisons. In the screen shots I used a book from our library’s new book shelf.
So what if you could create an app that did the same with your library barcodes? Find reviews of the book you’ve got in your hand? Check it out? (I know what about security, let’s ignore that for now). Sounds like a great idea for Hackfest at Access 2010 in Winnipeg.
Thanks to Mike Ellis at University of Manitoba for showing me red laser!
UWinnipeg Library new web look
University of Winnipeg Library has launched a new look. Built with Plone, it matches the look and feel of the main campus site, without using the same content management system. Congrats team!
Groover’s Paradise: I Just Want Some Affection
Groover’s Paradise: I Just Want Some Affection.
A song about a librarian named Karen!
Cellphones taking over cyberworld from PCs – Winnipeg Free Press
And how’s your library web page look on a small screen? Developed an app to search your stuff yet? Demanding that vendors are smartphone friendly?
Michigan Library Consortium
Evette Atkin – good contact for Manitoba, big issue is breaking out of the vendor / customer culture.
Evergreen conference
Just getting going here, first impression is the staff at equinox are painfully young-then literally the future is here.
Stand by me
First international evergreen conference, Lamar Veatch introducing.
I doubt you would feel this much positive energy at a vendor user group meeting. Take control. Partners with commercial, but does this remind anyone else of library automation in the sixties, but the big difference is the “environment” supporting open source.
150 people here
Joe Lucia, villanova university
Exiting turbulent challenging environment.
Mobile Libraries
For me the most useful part of the day was making contact with the Apple guy, and making contact with someone in Winnipeg who knows iPhone app developers.
PubMed on your iPhone – a set on Flickr
PubMed on your iPhone – a set on Flickr.
Setup your iPhone to search PubMed, add the UML proxy server to access fulltext articles (very basic instructions)
By http://referencesontap.com/
free – limit of 5 results
$2.99 no limits
