Monthly Archives: June 2010

University Library Technology Services at Tufts University is recruiting a University Library Systems Manager. Here's an excerpt from the ad: The University Library Systems Manager provides technical systems support for the shared technology services of the five Tufts Libraries including primary management and support of the libraries' Innovative Interfaces Millennium server. She/he: Serves as system [...] Continue reading →

JISC has released User Behaviour Observational Study: Scholarly Digital Use and Information-Seeking Behaviour in Business and Economics. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The report covers the digital usage and information seeking behaviour of tens of thousands of business/economics/management students, researchers and academic staff. The intention was to inform and provide a context for the [...] Continue reading →

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library is recruiting a Library Technology Manager 2. Minimum salary: $69,300. Here's an excerpt from the ad: The Research Library is seeking a lead for its Digital Library Development Team, a team of application programmers and technically inclined librarians, to provide vision regarding architecture and functionality through both coordination [...] Continue reading →

LITA has released a digital video of its Top Tech Trends session at ALA Annual. The participants were: John Blyberg Lorcan Dempsey Jason Griffey Monique Sendze Cindi Trainor Joan Frye Williams Continue reading →

Michael Tamblyn of Kobo has just announced an upgrade to their ereader firmware. Here’s what the Kobo blog says about it. I’ll do without the blockquotes: We are very happy to announce that we have firmware upgrades on the way for Kobo eReader customers. I’m going to give as much detail as I can on [...] Continue reading →

All sorts of info about fooling around with the innards of your Nook is available on this site. According to the About page: nookDevs was created on November 29th, 2009 (1 day before the nook’s scheduled launch) by User:robbiet480 who saw great potential for Android and nook. nookDevs is a MediaWiki-based wiki which means you [...] Continue reading →

Here are two from Resource Shelf. The NFB is in the process of digitally archiving its 70-year film and tape-based archive. This is over 13,000 works that cover over 6,000 hours of content. Additionally, the NFB has released an iPad app which provided free access to over 1,000 films and can even store up to [...] Continue reading →

Amazon l’avait annoncé en janvier dernier, c’est maintenant effectif, une rétribution à hauteur de 70% sera bien appliquée aux auteurs et aux petits éditeurs qui souhaiteront rejoindre la plateforme DTPAmazon à condition qu’ils respectent entre autres les règles suivantes: prix… Continue reading →

Amazon Kindle Review is reporting that the DX can be had for $249, but I just checked and its being listed at $350 (actually $249.99). Still a pretty good deal considering the list price. Here’s the Amazon link. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. Continue reading →

La société française Nemoptic propose une vidéo assez complète sur les avancées de ses écrans en papier électronique (via eInkinfo). Continue reading →