Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Putting more escholarship where students are looking for it. Columbia Study: University Students Gravitate to Electronic Resources, a short, unsigned news story in today's Library Journal. Excerpt: "The issue, ultimately, is getting search engines to be able to access deeper collections, as new projects by Yahoo and Google emerge. 'We'll see the current generation we accuse of doing research in their pajamas develop highly sophisticated searching strategies to find high quality information on the web,' Abby Smith, director of programs at the Council on Library and Information Resources, told the Times. 'It's this transition period we're in, when not all high-quality information is available on the web--that's what we lament.' " [Open Access News] 9:06:13 AM      Google It!.

Dan Bricklin: "I've just posted the 1.0 version of my ListGarden RSS Generator Program." [Scripting News] ListGarden RSS Feed Generator Program Features: * Creates and maintains RSS feeds * Produces both XML and optional human-readable companion HTML * Runs either on your PC or on a web server * Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux * Open source * Requires no knowledge of XML or the RSS data format * Tuned for quick additions of new items and simple editing Perfect for: * Change logs * Notification of additions and updates to traditional websites * Companions to email newsletters * Event Lists * Alerts and ongoing status * Notification of the arrival of new products in a store * Maintaining simple online lists accessible as both XML and HTML * News website headlines * Use within a corporate firewall for internal websites This last use is interesting for internal institutional communication support -- BL 9:00:05 AM      Google It!.